Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bicycles, dune buggies, motorcycles, skis, boats, surfboards, waves, cars. The town has more cars per capita than any other place, more freeway miles and car dealers. Its dealers, even retired ones like Ralph Williams, are celebrities. "People here will go without food for their cars," a West Hollywood Jaguar repairman told me. It used to be said that some people did that for their children...
...typical. Donald Nosseck, some extra cash on hand from his chain of dress shops and dissatisfied with his Toyota 2000GT, took the car to Chief Kar Kustomizer George Barris, out in North Hollywood, and had Barris totally rebuild the little sports car into something more like an old Jaguar XK.140. After that, he couldn't stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with his acetylene torch and put in a sun roof, apply heaters (great phony silver pipes coming off the head of the engine, exiting from the sides...
Such success enables Hayes to drive around in a Jaguar or one of his two Cadillacs; he has a third on order with gold-plated bumpers. "I like luxury, man," he says, "because it's what I never...
...began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale (at $5,500 to $9,500 v. $8,000 to $13,000 for real jaguar...
...else in Paris. In addition to the 35,000 regular prostitutes, there may be 75,000 part-time amateurs in Paris. Around the lush hotels, car-borne tarts lean out of flashy Lancias and Mercedes to proposition customers (one poule de luxe picks up droves in a splendid bronze Jaguar...