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Tires & Pistons. Wallard's victory, like most, was won before the race began. Owner Murrell Belanger, a wealthy Crown Point, Ind. auto dealer (Chrysler-Plymouth) and ex-racer who dabbles in the sport for the fun of it, knew that the new "beefed up" (i.e., fatter) tires would produce more speed, particularly on the turns. Belanger also figured that a light, rear-drive car, though it gives a rougher ride, would require fewer fuel stops, that a simple, four-cylinder power plant would require fewer pit stops. As a result, Belanger's aluminum-shelled special turned...
Though she is already hotly pursued by the greatest matador in all Spain and engaged to the world's fastest auto-racer, Ava feels drawn to the mysterious stranger. At length, while an ominous soundtrack narrator keeps describing what is all too visible on the screen, and the camera catches some revealing glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar...
...Viking makes no claim to be a racer," DeSa said in explaining the length of time he will spend at sea. It will be almost a year from his departure at Panama till he anchors in Poole Harbor in England...
Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
...touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...