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...with that lot, which I did the other day. Verrrrry tricky." O'Toole, 72, knew when he signed up for the remake of Lassie that there would be a collie, a massive hunt scene in which his character would chase a fox down a coal mine in an old Duesenberg and two 9-year-old co-stars. "I'm not complaining," he says, sitting in his trailer and munching on licorice jujubes, "just amazed. Strange old business, film is. Strange old business...
DeSoto. Hudson. Duesenberg. Packard. And now you can add Plymouth to the long list of American car brands no longer gracing auto showrooms. DaimlerChrysler executives announced Wednesday that the company is discontinuing the brand after 72 years. Earlier this decade, when Plymouth's sales begun to slump, Chrysler reinvented the brand as an economy line of cars for young families, branding it with the slogan "One Clever Idea After Another." At the same time, Plymouth's mid-sized Breeze sedan and the Voyager minivan received enthusiastic reviews from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant...
...Mechanic. For fun, Perkins tinkers with very old automobiles. Using well-worn wrenches and lots of elbow grease, he and a team of mechanics have restored a collection of nearly two dozen 1930s sports cars. Among them: a Mercedes-Benz Special Roadster, a deep sea-blue Bugatti and a Duesenberg once owned by a maharajah. "They have to run right," he says, "or they're not worth having...
...goes. They are not like the Mercedes and the Rolls-Royce, which are (relatively) mass manufactured and as common in some moneyed turf as hogs in a holler. Whereas most toys for the rich look as if they had all come from the same department store, a replicated Duesenberg SSJ or Auburn 866 boat-tail speedster is not something your dentist or psychiatrist is apt to call...
...only thing that will turn a man's head faster than a passing pretty girl is an antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...