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...Europe's small-car men hardly touched their existing models this year. Instead, they concentrated on bringing out a fleet of brand-new cars to fill in the gaps in their lines and expand their growing markets still more. Italy's Fiat brought out an 81-h.p. hardtop two-seater to compete in the $3,200 price class with Britain's popular Austin Healeys, added a new baby line called the "Jolly," with four wicker seats and a price tag of about $1,000. France's big-selling Simca has a new line of medium-priced...
...factory with taxes, freight, etc. added. v. $2,422 for the comparable though six inches shorter 1958 two-door Buick Special. The middle price Invicta and Electra lines will generally carry smaller increases over the discontinued 1958 Century and Super lines. The highest-price Electra 225 four-door hardtop will go for $3,895 v. $4,396 for the 1958 four-door Limited hardtop. Gone are all five 1958 models that Buick sold in the old $4,000-plus Roadmaster and Limited class...
...radical for fear it would make me conservative when I was old. God seems to me to be something which wants us to win. In tennis. Or poetry. Or marriage. I'm like a modern car in religious matters. I may look convertible, but I'm a hardtop...
...enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time the Russians got to their first match in Chicago's International Amphitheater they should have been thoroughly bushed. But they were still more than a match for the seven U.S. strongmen who had been assembled by Bar-Bell Manufacturer Bob Hoffman...
THUNDERBIRD SOFT TOP that will fold back into trunk like Ford's automatically retractable hardtop, will be put out by Ford this spring. Unlike hardtop convertible, new four-seater Thunderbird wi'l be only semiautomatic, require driver to lower trunk himself...