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...himself and restored numerous others in his mechanic's shop. So he has decided to build brand-new Model A's (the 1930 roadster, coupe and pickup truck) to the original specifications in his barn outside Dade City. A smooth-riding demonstration car stands in the driveway as proof of production. List price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: An A for Nostalgia | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Bell ignored this gory history as he crawled over a cement driveway to the truck which sat under his uncle's bedroom window. He raised the hood carefully, swearing at the rusty hinges which sang painful cat songs as he propped it up. A light snapped on in the house. Jesus, thought Bell, and groped for the distributor cap, fastening his alligator clip to it and grounding the other clip to the engine block. He slammed the hood and jumped in, put a cautious foot on the gas, and felt the engine pull itself to life. He began to back...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Hot Wire Mentality | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...just "grinding it out in hard slog for 21 hours a week, running when the rain sets in, being buzzed by smart bastards in cars and even, like a few months ago, ending spread-eagled [but unharmed] over the bonnet of a car that zoomed out of a driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Race | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...refill their prescription of Thorazine, the mind-numbing drug modern psychiatrists give to people they feel would be better off not feeling. He told me that nobody had answered his knock on the front door, so he started around the house. On the side of the house in the driveway was an old Studebaker up on blocks, no wheels, two doors missing. Inside at the wheel was the father, going "vroom, vroom," beside him the mother and the youngest child, in the back seat the other four kids. Out for an afternoon drive...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sliding Rock'n'Roll | 7/9/1976 | See Source »

...them were still wearing their pajamas when they were found. The mother and grandmother, who had on daytime clothes, were apparently attacked before retiring. The killer carried out the five bodies at night, lugging them over the 13 cement slabs that form a stepping-stone walk to the driveway, and presumably throwing them into the family's Chevrolet Malibu wagon, which has still not been found. The drive to the North Carolina grave site must have taken five hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bishop Murders | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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