Word: hardtop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week, two Texas state highway patrolmen spotted a flashy new green Mercury hardtop convertible barreling into the shadowed outskirts of Houston with a "suspicious" young man at the wheel. They pulled him to the side of the road and peered into the car. A blonde girl of 15 was sitting beside him. The driver, one Alton Franks, 19, explained that the girl was his wife. The cops grunted noncommittally and asked for his driver's license. He had none. Then they spotted a .38-caliber pistol on the back seat. They hauled Franks...
...cops quickly decided that their suspicions had been justified: Franks had been out of the Huntsville State Prison less than three weeks, after serving 17 months for car theft. Where did he get the green hardtop? Bought it, said Franks, with ill-concealed, sassy satisfaction. Then he proved it: he not only had a legitimate bill of sale but deposit slips showing that he had $13,000 in a Houston bank. Where did he get the money? It was, he said happily, a gift...
...with a 19-year-old college boy named William Braverman, killed him in broad daylight with a service .45, buried him in a quarry, jauntily decorated the grave with a rusty antifreeze tin, and headed west with Diane in his victim's shiny, red and black 1953 Plymouth hardtop. He told the girl he felt no remorse. "It don't bother me if I don't know the people," he said gravely. "There is no such thing as conscience. It's just a feeling of fear that people have." Before an Iowa policeman arrested them three...
...this week, is in the price tags. On the several two-door models-the only passenger-car line Willys could make this year, because of steel limitations-price cuts ranged from $88 to $185. In 1953, with more steel available, Willys will broaden its line to include a hardtop convertible (Aero-Eagle) and four-door sedans. The four-door models will be cheaper ($1,579 to $1,869) than 1952's two-doors...
...heart, the new 1952 motorcars were being unveiled in a thousand showrooms across the land. Thoughts of steel shortages and skyrocketing prices went glimmering in the dazzle of chrome and the razzle of the "jet scoop hood," the "Quadri-Jet carburetor" and that glassy monument to planned frustration, the hardtop convertible. "It's loaded, so be careful," pleaded the Cadillac ads. "There's more power in that dynamic engine than you'll ever need-except for the rarest emergency...