Word: mustangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love affair with the automobile. He combined a knowledge of an automobile's innards with a shrewd, almost intuitive sense of what car buyers wanted. He stripped the plain-Jane body off Ford's dowdy Falcon and replaced it with a long-hood, short-rear-deck configuration called the Mustang that in 1964 set a record for automobile sales by a first-year model (418,000). Four years later he reached into Ford's spare-parts bin again and launched the limousine-like Continental Mark III on a Thunderbird chassis...
...thought. I sometimes wonder whether we're getting better at this sort of thing. The men of the 4077 would surely say we ought to get worse and then give it up. One of them called me - sit down and listen to this - "a tough, bandy-legged little mustang. " Donkey doughnuts! That Winchester can get under my old hide. I guess all of them have, and I guess they'll stay there. When I came to this MASH they looked like a strange new breed of soldier...
...taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...
Surely you have little use for a makeshift device constructed from vacuum cleaner parts, points from 1967 Mustang, and a handful of marbles. We, however, being the sentimental sort, would take great care of indeed, we would enshrine--this symbolic highlight of the 1982 football season. Please give it back. Sincerely yours, Paul E. Gray [President...
...1960s, but they went out of production largely because of tough Government fuel-economy and pollution regulations. Now some automakers have produced models that get respectable gas mileage but can still accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 7 sec. Some of the hottest sellers: the Ford Mustang GT (up to $1 1,500) and the Chevrolet Camaro...