Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
...Knudsen worked for 106 G.M. plants before, at 43, he was made boss of the drooping Pontiac Division. His first move was to order styling changes on the 1957 model to rid Pontiac of its "grandma" image-something that few automen would have dared just 60 days away from volume production. Off came two pieces of chrome across the hood and trunk lid-no matter that his fa ther had introduced them in 1935. Next, Knudsen reached for what the youth of the day wanted. He brought out a 21 in. wider and flashier model to appeal to young drivers...
...also announced the resignation of Executive Vice President Semon E. ("Bunky") Knudsen, 55, the man credited with reviving Pontiac's fortunes when he headed that division from 1956 to 1961. Though the official line was that Knudsen wanted "to pursue personal interests," he was known to be disappointed by G.M.'s decision last fall to give the corporate presidency to Edward N. Cole...
...drums, are beginning to wonder. As a result of last year's 45-day strike, Ford production is still catching up, and sales are off 40% for the model-year thus far. General Motors is down 1% from last year in spite of such hot numbers as the Pontiac Tempest. Smaller American Motors is up 5.5% on the strength of its sporty Javelin but, while this is pleasing to American, it amounts to a mere drop in the industry bucket. Overall industry sales are down...
Gone Like a Leaf. Taking a weekend off after the strain of a Senate election campaign and the devaluation of the British pound, Holt jumped into his red 1967 Pontiac and drove 59 miles from Melbourne to a small, white hilltop beach home he had built in the southern seaside town of Portsea on Port Phillip Bay. Though his doctors had warned him against swimming because of a slight muscular complaint, Holt felt that the sea air and the relaxation would do him good. So early on an overcast Sunday morning, he picked up four friends-Portsea Neighbors Alan Stewart...