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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Onto 1958 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Road Show | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Show Stoppers | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Into the Ring | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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