Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year output (217,282 cars), still has 24,000 dealer orders to fill. Ford and Chevy also reported hefty increases in December retail-truck deliveries. Chevy said truck sales in the first 20 days of December were up 38.5% from last year...
...French army kepis to straw boaters and Davy Crockett caps, were at the Brazzaville airport to meet him, and even his wizened old mother, after performing a little weaving dance in his honor, fell on her knees before him. As he drove through the streets in his blue-grey Pontiac, his excited fans followed in trucks and jeeps, shooting into the air and shouting, "Olele! Olele! The Abbé has won!" The abbé-Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle Congo's capital city of Pointe-Noire. There...
...shortage continues much longer, many a dealer fears he will lose sales. Some of the more optimistic have already lowered their sights. "We had a terrific reception to the new models," says John Bugmire, general manager of Atlanta's Nalley Chevrolet. "This shortage hurts badly." Pontiac Dealer A. E. England of Hollywood, Calif, said that "You can't firm an order when you haven't got a model to show," and Irving Esserman of Chicago's Esserman Motor Sales, a large Chrysler-Plymouth dealer, said flatly that "We're being strangled by the shortage...
...already sold 100,000 new models, more than 10% of its 1958 model sales. Plymouth is 100,000 cars behind dealer orders. Chevrolet will not be able to catch up on orders for at least two months. American Motors Corp. broke all its previous production records, has nudged out Pontiac to become No. 6 carmaker with 159,000 cars produced so far this year...
Cars were selling well. Buick announced that it has received more than 100,000 new car orders from its dealers, almost two-thirds of which have already been sold. Ford announced that its dealers sold 27,000 new Fords on introduction day alone, and Pontiac reported sales and confirmed orders of more than 20,500 during the car's first three days on the market. Buoyed by orders for 72,400 Ramblers so far this year, American Motors made plans to turn out 100,000 Ramblers by the end of December, almost double the total turned...