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...Andover, Mass., an agency has been giving free $4,500 Chevettes to buyers of $18,000 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritzes. In San Francisco, a dealer has advertised Dodge vans at a penny above the factory invoice price. In Fairfax, Va., a Chrysler-Plymouth agency offered car buyers a minimum trade-in allowance for anything on four wheels. Said the firm ads: LET'S MAKE A DEAL! ROLL IT IN! TOW IT IN! $800. Nonetheless, salesmen across the country are having more trouble moving big cars these days than at any time since the recession...
...American as the Fourth of July. It captured Americans' expansive post-World War II mood and satisfied dreams of affluence. But demands for fuel efficiency and changing tastes have sent the regal road cruisers the way of the buffalo. General Motors shrunk its Cadillac Eldorado from 5,321 lbs. in 1976 to 3,897 lbs. by 1979. The Coupe De Ville also sweated off 900 lbs.; Chrysler stopped making any cars heavier than 4,000 lbs. last year. But Ford hung tough. Its 1979 Lincoln Mercury Continental Mark V weighed a defiant 4,779 lbs., was more than...
...Singer Jerry Lee Lewis owed the feds $165,093.12 in back taxes, and the feds were tired of waiting. That's why a posse of IRS agents suddenly showed up at Lewis De Soto County, Miss., ranch last week and seized a $68,000 Rolls-Royce, a Cadillac Eldorado, a Corvette Stingray, a Lincoln Continental, a Jeep, a '56 Caddy, a '35 Ford, a '41 Ford convertible, a tractor and five motorcycles. "I'm sure it's a breakdown in communications and something will be worked out," moaned the singer. "You know...
...Chevrolet Chevette, has spread to most of Detroit's bigger '79 cars. Chrysler has introduced a New Yorker that looks much like the large cars of old; yet it is 800 lbs. lighter and 9 in. shorter than last year's version. GM shortened its Cadillac Eldorado by 20 in. and slashed 1,150 lbs. from its body, thus slaying, presumably for good, the last of GM's giants. The few remaining 1978 Eldorados are selling briskly to speculators who hope to make a resale killing...
Members of the Lampoon's executive board could not be reached to comment last night on the car's purchase. However, one member of the Lampoon staff, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday he does not think the Eldorado's new owner has "all his screws in the right place...