Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...models on display were dissected a thousand times by their prying minds. Dignified men lay prostrate to gaze at the marvels of a new clutch. Nor will the observation of the engineers end in Manhattan. If Chrysler's Fred M. Zeder is curious about the new Pontiac he may have one sent to his plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways and jolts a car until finally some spring breaks or some nut wiggles loose. And if Packard's famed Major Jesse Gurney Vincent is curious about somebody else's chassis...
Price War? The motor industry, flushed with the excitement of its spring sales drive (TIME, April 4), denied that a price war began last week. But no sooner had the new Ford prices been announced than Chevrolet made slashes of from $10 to $55. Pontiac followed with reductions of from $20 to $50. In the higher brackets, Hupmobile made $100 to $200 reductions. Willys-Overland, with its six-cylinder roadster $45 under the Ford V-eight, said it would enter no price war. Rockne, Graham-Paige, Continental-de Vaux all said no price changes were contemplated...
Fast trains last week drew apart the members of the Royal Family of Industry, scattered them in such motor cities as Detroit, Toledo. Pontiac, Flint. Leaning back, they agreed that their annual coming-out party, the New York Automobile Show, had been a far greater success than they had expected (TIME...
...practical; stirring as his influence was stirring." The Rockne Six (the trade quickly called it the Rockne Coach) will sell at two prices. One model will compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, marking Studebaker's entrance into the low priced field. The other will sell in the Pontiac and Essex range...
...Pontiac, Mich., Willis M, Brewer...