Word: hardtop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HARDTOP CONVERTIBLES with tops that slide down into recessed area over trunk are being tested by both Ford and Chevrolet. Ford is expected to unveil such a car this fall...
...August. The aluminum-roofed Brougham (base price: $8,500) is G.M.'s answer to Ford's Continental Mark II, and features such gadgets as a driver's seat that pivots outward for easy access. Highlights of the dream cars: Chevrolet's Impala, a five-passenger hardtop version of the 225-h.p. Corvette sports car; Buick's transparent-topped Centurion, with a TV camera in the back instead of a rear view mirror. In its Kitchen of Tomorrow exhibit, G.M.'s Frigidaire Division showed an experimental dishwasher that cleans by sound waves and a marble...
...barrel carburetors and a 9:1 compression ratio, the 300B engine is rated at 340 h.p., 40 h.p. more than last year, making it the highest-powered production-line model in the industry. Price: $3,997. The Fury, which uses basically the same shell as the two-door Plymouth hardtop, but is an inch lower and has a 240 h.p. V-8 engine, instead of the regular 200 h.p. engine...
...Dodge "500", with heavier springs and shock absorbers than standard models, plus a lower body and an engine developing 260 h.p. (v. 200 in standard models). Price: $2,599 for the hardtop; $2,276 for the sedan...
...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...