Word: monza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company engineering school, was chief engineer at Cadillac and then Chevrolet before he took over Chevy in 1956. He directed the development of the Corvette sports car and the Corvair air-cooled, rear-engine compact. Last year, introducing Detroit to the sales potential of pizazz with his chromed-up Monza, Cole whipped Chevy to record sales of 1,730,000-the most for any car in history...
...moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given him the title...
...Trips was wary of Monza, "the Death Circuit" that had killed some dozen drivers since it was opened 39 years ago. Twice it had nearly killed Von Trips. In 1956 his Ferrari spun out of control, rolled over eight times without injuring him. Just two years later, he took the first turn too fast, rolled once more, and suffered a fractured knee that kept him out of racing for a year. Von Trips was always "Count Crash" after that, but he was driving more carefully this year, taking fewer risks; and he took heart because Monza...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...
...intermediate size is a compromise that offers greater inside roominess with reasonable outside dimensions-very much, in fact, like the cars of a decade ago. Having found that buyers insist on all kinds of fancy extras (Chevy's 1961 Corvair got off to a slow start until the Monza model came out last year with bucket seats, extra chrome, luxurious interior fittings and prestige insignia), the pizazz experts are following the trend in most models and providing the whole gamut of sporty touches except for helmets and goggles. And, depending on the model and the price, all the companies...