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...trip which twisted up the slopes of snow-capped mountains and along parched desert highways to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Purpose of the trip: to find out which U.S. cars get the most mileage and efficiency from their fuel. Every major U.S. make, except Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac, was represented. At journey's end, about 21 driving hours later, the cars had traveled from 280 feet below sea level to 7,005 feet above, had covered 840 miles. The winner: a Lincoln sedan, with 66.484 ton-miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied...
...Meyer drives a 1946 Pontiac and is trying to wangle a 1951 Plymouth...
...cutaway diagrams of new racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...
This week G.M. sent wires to Pontiac, Chevrolet and Cadillac dealers stopping sales, until further notice, of new cars shipped after the rollback order. G.M. did not say how long the freeze would last. But it looked as if it was done in hopes of getting the rollback rescinded or persuading Washington to roll back raw materials and wages as well. A price freeze, said G.M., would require an "equally arbitrary wage freeze" under the Defense Production...
...University of Illinois engineering graduate, Goad was hired by Charlie Wilson for G.M.'s Delco-Remy (electrical) division, worked up to boss of Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plants. During World War II he headed G.M.'s Eastern Aircraft Division, whose plants at Linden and Trenton, N.J. were the only U.S. auto factories to convert to the production of complete airplanes (Grumman fighters and torpedo bombers...