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...Ford "Ranchero" pickup truck! Chrysler has signed agreements with no less than 17 TV shows to use its cars, among them Peyton Place, Dr. Kildare, the Beverly Hillbillies and The Fugitive. Napoleon Solo escapes Thrush in a Dodge; Efrem Zimbalist Jr. tools around on FBI business in a Mustang...
...Second-place Botany Industries (1964 sales: $134 million) operates 78 stores, will soon take over more. Botany President Michael Daroff is particularly interested in the 18-to 28-year-olds, who not only have money but can set styles. Botany is equipping each of its stores with a Mustang Shop, where salesmen are young, Cokes are served, and youthful customers are urged to chat, browse and buy the go-go clothes aimed at them...
...Falcon has been restyled into a sporty car for the family man with Mustang spirit but too many kids for bucket seats. It is almost three inches longer (184.3 in.) than the '65 version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
Germany's ten manufacturers showed off 30 basic models that come in 155 different versions, all with higher horsepower than before. Notable among them: Opel's completely restyled fastback Kadett, which borrows some of its lines from the Ford Mustang, and NSU's Spider, the only car in the world powered by the Wankel engine. Twelve companies in the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan are now experimenting with the engine (which was developed in 1954 by Felix Wankel, a German engineer). The Wankel replaces conventional pistons and cylinders with a triangular rotor, has only two major...
...California's Ed Weiner: the $10,000 Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...