Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ab Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...
...windows in Jenkins' car, a borrowed two-door Pontiac sedan, were rolled up as he pounded around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve...
...general manager of the floundering Buick Division. Back came the answer from Harlow ("Red") Curtice: "When?" Recently Red Curtice, now G.M. president, got a chance to repay the offer. Phoning Bill Knudsen's son, Semon ("Bunky") Knudsen, he asked: "Like to take over as general manager of Pontiac?" Came the reply: "When...
...change, announced last week, triggered a youth movement in G.M.'s upper echelons. Under Pontiac Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...
...MEDIUM PRICE. Pontiac Chief tain Catalina, 21.10 m.p.g., 51.72 t.m.p.g.; Dodge Coronet 500 V8, 20.90 m.p.g., 50.14 t.m.p.g.; Mercury Montclair Phaeton, 19.15 m.p.g., 47.69 t.m.p.g...