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...girdle in a fashion to which he is not accustomed when he first acquires his new automobile.'' The hip and back symptoms are caused by the necessity of rotating the hip when entering or leaving a smaller car and "limitations in foot room that com pel the front-seat passenger to sit with the lower half of the body rotated in order to secure the maximum available space...
...review of Where the Boys Are [Jan. 18], your critic betrays his size (or shape, or age). Those of us who are not built along Ivy League lines, i.e., with shoulders, find front-seat sinning pure hell...
...major 1956 sales pitch last week with a car safety forum in Detroit, announced that no-spring door latches, "deep-dish" steering wheels (many drivers have been impaled on the steering column) and padded rearview mirrors would be standard equipment on all models. Dashboard and visor cushion pads and front-seat belts will be optional but sold at cost ($25). Benson Ford invited the automobile industry to go along with Ford on a safety sales campaign. But not all the automakers were willing to emphasize the chances a car buyer takes when he ventures on the highway. General Motors...
Indiana state police officers recommended that motorists wear safety belts and crash helmets. But Dr. Jacob Kulowski of St. Joseph, Mo. took a more radical line. Much of the trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...
...area 16%, and horsepower pushed up to 100 v. 97 in the old models. One of the simplest changes-yet one of the best-was made in the two-door models. In them, the front seat is divided not in the center, but at a point one-third from the right door. The new seat permits rear-seat passengers to get in & out without squashing their front-seat companions up against the dashboard in front...