Word: facel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week France's sixth ranking auto company, Facel-Vega, went out of business. Meanwhile, the two largest German-owned auto companies, Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz, put through a partial merger. In an agreement that foreshadows further pooling of resources, Volkswagen anted up $20 million for half interest in Daimler-Benz's Auto-Union subsidiary...
...house at Round Hill in Jamaica, and they are building another house in Nassau. They maintain an apartment in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. And they have a place at Squam Lake in New Hampshire, where Paley tears up the back roads at 80 m.p.h. in his Facel-Vega...
...under California law they could keep coming back for 26 weeks in a row, make one well-paid movie appearance, and then begin again. Adolphe Menjou is a frequent visitor. After completing her part in Burke's Law, Rebecca Welles drove to Club 55 in her $10,000 Facel Vega. William Beaudine, director of TV's Lassie, often works one week out of three, collects his compensation the other two. After a filming of the Perry Mason TV show, with a lapse in work ahead, the whole cast and crew turned up at Club...
Putting on Weight. With European small cars getting bigger and U.S. compacts de-compacting, the big cars seem to have nothing to do but put on weight too. The luxurious French Facel-Vega, for instance, has added a four-door model (both side doors open dramatically away from each other without a center post) that lacks the sprung elegance of the smaller two-door style. Even Rolls-Royce boasts that the new Silver Cloud III (with its four Detroit-style headlights) is roomier than ever...
...feline is a cool 120 m.p.h. But gadgetry is not a U.S. monopoly: Mark X's includes twin tables with mirrors that fold out into the rear seat, and an air-conditioning system that can deliver different measures of hot and cold to each passenger. The big new Facel Vega II from France has an instrument panel designed to turn anyone with $9,800 to spend into a Mitty-style jet pilot-8 dials. 10 toggle switches. And Rolls Royce. unable to improve on perfection, is offering such titillations as a built-in refrigerator to go with the built...