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...stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window on her parade route, luckily only denting the hood...
Though remaining silent about exact design details, Miller said that the general idea was to construct the front end so that it would, in case of a head-on collision, crumple and be shortened by 24 in. Through an optimum setup of framing, wheels, fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces...
...living symbol of oppression to the 500,000 Catholic minority, and officials feared some kind of retaliation. Sure enough, as the royal bubble-top limousine rolled through the city, a 12-lb. chunk of concrete was tossed at the car from a fourth-story window, miraculously glancing off the hood. Later that day a woman bounced a beer bottle off the bubble-top. The Queen never lost her cool. 'Tough car," she quipped as she finished her tour...
...Ford also had two things going for him, money and determination. The eight sleek Mark II prototypes on which he based his hopes last week cost $100,000 apiece, and they were the last word in automotive sophistication. Only 40 in. high, each packed 475 horses under its hood. Henry himself was on hand to watch them run, and he made no bones about how he expected them to finish. "You'd better win," he told his director of racing, Leo Beebe, "or else...
...Panther-that name may change before the car's introduction in September-is Chevrolet's belated answer to Mustang. It has much the same long hood, set-back passenger compartment and squat trunk of the Mustang, will have about the same average price...