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Word: hucksterish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fantastic prices a rare model can command are attracting some hucksterish high jinks. A recent full-page ad in the New York Times offered his-and-her Phantom V Rolls-Royce limousines, custom-built by the famed James Young Coachworks, for $250,000. Five years ago, one of the cars was sold for only $8,000 to a dealer by an eccentric Maryland horse breeder who used the car as a hay wagon. The market is glutted with high-priced limousines that were supposedly once owned by Hitler. Most of these, the experts say, are fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Crazy-Car Craze | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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