Word: mako
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Among U.S. show cars, the Corvette Mako Shark II, so new that it has yet to be tested, has such features as retractable windshield wipers, hinged roof and a louvered rear window that opens to let in air, closes to keep weather out. American Motors' AMX Dream Car uses a cantilevered roof to do away with corner posts, boasts 240° visibility, and makes a stab at bringing back the old rumble seat with a back bench that uses the swing-up rear window as a windscreen. With busy businessmen in mind, Chrysler turned its 1966 Imperial Crown coupe...
Then there is the mako, probably the flashiest fighting fish in the sea. A snaggle-toothed bruiser (record: 1,000 Ibs.) that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death...
Mundus also has a 3,500-lb. white to his credit (again harpooned), plus a hand in 15 rod-and-reel records that range from a 66-lb. porbeagle caught on 12-lb.-test line to a 683-lb. 12-oz. mako caught on 50-lb. test. To catch a shark, he says, first catch a whale...
...sharks like a chum of blackfish, whale bits and blood. And for all those fishermen who think that sharks are good for nothing, he has one further word of advice: turn the tables on that shark. Eat it. Blue shark, he says, tastes "just like striped bass." And the mako and porbeagle are every bit as good as swordfish. In fact, smiles Mundus wisely, many a housewife has bought shark in her friendly neighborhood fish market at $1.60 a pound-as swordfish...