Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, a motorist glanced at the car alongside and gasped to a friend: "Hey, the rear end of that Rolls is a Volkswagen!" Well, almost. What the Chicagoan saw -and what more and more drivers and pedestrians across the U.S. are encountering-is a VW equipped with a fiberglass hood that bears a startling resemblance to the elegant Rolls-Royce front. It is the latest-and most eye-catching -manifestation of the doll-up-the-Bug fad that has produced a dizzying variety of conversions over the years since the Beetles first appeared...
Chicago Adman Jack Kauffman, whose Pacesetter Industries also produces a Rolls-type nose for the Bug, has sold about 500 units so far for about $250 each, primarily through Midwest VW dealers. Kauffman carefully avoids identifying the new nose with the Rolls-Royce, calling it a "classic" hood, instead. But his customers have no such qualms...
...trackside was unconfined. Toasts were drunk and the engineer who had prepared the Vega for its run was doused with beer. The small knot of men had every reason to celebrate. Their little car had just traveled some 150 miles at a respectable highway speed, although under its hood there was nothing more than a 40-horsepower electric motor...
...oxides of nitrogen in auto exhausts. In addition, the companies tacked on new costs for improvements in plant safety and factory antipollution controls, also required by law. Finally, the proposed price rises include a small amount covering product improvements initiated by the companies; G.M., for example, will install stronger hood latches on its '73 cars. Under Price Commission rules, companies usually can pass on to their customers increases in real costs, and the automakers' applications appeared to meet that test. In an oddly timed announcement late last week, the Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated...
...photographer called Painter is rerouting all the Mafia's heroin traffic through his own hands. Johnson and the Digger are on to him pretty early in the game, but they cannot make a move because every citizen above 110th Street regards Painter as some kind of black Robin Hood. The movie comes unhinged occasionally, especially in sequences that borrow liberally from such diverse sources as Public Enemy and The French Connection; but Cambridge and St. Jacques, two resourceful performers, are always on hand to snap things back into perspective...