Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said, Tm gonna have to desert you if you don't stop makin' cars for women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three...
...Ongemach, for example, met his second wife Grace when she was a secretary at the company where he worked two jobs ago. Now 32, Ongemach owns a stereo set so complicated that he objects when other people try to operate it. His garage shelters a 1966 Cadillac and 1968 Pontiac Firebird with a 400-h.p. engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau Chief Joseph Kane, he may react by saying: "I want you to be happy. Here is some money. Go buy yourself...
Almost every manufacturer offers a super car. Pontiac has "the Judge" in honor of the Rowan and Martin line "Here come de judge." Dodge promotes the Charger R/T, Mercury the "Cyclone Spoiler." Externally, the cars are distinguishable by their fat, pavement-gripping tires and often by air scoops that bulge over the hood or sides. To be truly eligible for the club, a muscle car must be able to race down a quarter-mile strip of pavement from a standing start in under 15 seconds...
Today writing and lecturing are his only work. Breakfast of Champions, his next book, should appear this year. With characteristic irony it deals with the plight of robots who take over the Middle West (except for one flesh-and-blood Pontiac dealer), but find themselves bugged by problems of free will...
...having the world's most efficient industry. If that is the case, why have auto manufacturers, long regarded as star performers, lately been recalling cars at a faster rate than they have been building them? Last week General Motors called back 1,100,000 vehicles-1965 and 1966 Pontiac cars and late-model Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks, buses and highway tractors-because of possible defects in the braking systems. Only three weeks earlier, G.M. had recalled a record 4,900,000 vehicles, including 2,500,000 Chevrolets built between 1965 and 1968. Although less than 5% of all autos...