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...curves to its slow-selling Charger. Such features as cover-up headlights will become even more familiar. And to comply with new federal regulations, the '68 cars will have smog-emission-control devices and, mandatory after Jan. 1, such safety features as additional seat belts (with harnesses for front-seat passengers), obtrusion-free dashboards and breakaway rear-view mirrors...
Fifth-Percentile Women. Still, the revised standards will be incorporated in most U.S. 1968 models when they come out next fall. For the most part, changes from Haddon's original list (TIME, Dec. 9) were designed to meet engineering or economic practicalities. Under one preliminary requirement, for example, front-seat occupants were to have had across-the-chest shoulder harnesses along with the lap belts that all forward-facing passengers must have. Now convertibles will not have to have harnesses, since they lack the high doorposts necessary for attachment...
...anticipation of the bill, in fact, the industry has already begun to put many safety features into its cars as standard equipment. All 1967 models will have steering columns that telescope forward on impact, dual braking systems to stop a car if a single set fails and anchorages for front-seat shoulder harnesses. Other improvements will come along later, based largely on the 26 safety features that manufacturers must build into cars that they sell to the Government. Because it takes Detroit a year or more to alter designs, some changes will not show up until the 1968 models...
...replaced original with makeshift parts. To discover how the car once was, restorers thumb through old Ford service booklets, then set out to find the missing parts. Many are found at the restorers' annual swap. A perfectionist who had been looking for five years for a i-in. front-seat adjusting screw picked one up at Dearborn last week for $5. Show Race. Next to their cars, Model A restorers love other Model A re storers more than anything else in the world, and the annual convention is the high point of every year. Restorers admiringly-and enviously...
...that turn red when the brakes are applied and thus give a sharper light contrast on braking than at present. The Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, which does work for all of the auto companies, has suggested removing the glove compartment to do away with a potentially dangerous obstacle to the front-seat passenger in case of a crash, and protecting the driver with a steering column that would snap in the middle upon impact. Others have proposed spring-mounted bumpers and thicker doors, sealed side windows to keep arms and legs from flailing out in an accident. Detroit has already built...