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PONTIAC will also get a wheel-to-roof new styling job, emphasizing a flat, low hood and a smooth, long-looking line. Engines will be slightly more powerful, and air suspension will be optional. One newcomer: the Ventura, a super-sporty hardtop convertible with a beefed-up engine...
TIME, Dec. 3, published a picture of the new Ford hardtop convertible. I would like to point out that in the middle '30s a French automobile manufacturer, Peugeot, put out a similar car, the "Peugeot...
...Among the show stoppers: the high-priced cars that will go into limited production this year-Cadillac's $12,500 Eldorado Brougham (output restricted to 1,000 the first year), Pontiac's convertible Bonneville Special (only 2,000, and for dealer use only), Ford's retractable hardtop convertible (about...
...time in six years, Oldsmobile will make a station wagon, will produce three Fiesta models in six-and eight-passenger styles. Pontiac has its sleek Safari models, prettied up even more than last year. And Buick will bring out a brand-new design, with low, racy lines like a hardtop convertible. Said Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale: "Hardtop styling has proved to be the most popular body design in auto history. This year we are combining it with station-wagon spaciousness...
...Chevrolet will have fuel injection on its Corvette, make it optional equipment on other models; Ford has broken the standard three-year cycle for complete body changes, spent $209 million on a completely revamped car after only two years. Most exciting innovation: the industry's first production retractable hardtop (TIME, July 16), which Ford will introduce "early next year." Operating electrically, the top rides backward into the luggage compartment, transforming the hardtop into a convertible in 55 seconds...