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...After keeping its secret for more than a year, Ford finally announced that it is producing an auto designed specifically for Europe's prestigious racing circuit. Ford's new racer is a sleek fastback with a 200-m.p.h. top speed and a 375-h.p. engine that is placed "midships"-in front of the back axle but behind the driver-to achieve the best weight distribution. Ford plans to field a racing team with its new Grand Touring racers, which will be built in a rented London plant, and hopes to have about 100 cars ready for sale...
...nation's 300,000 hot rodders. It has a five-man team that visits hot-rod exhibits and rallies around the country, exhibiting five hot rods made from standard Ford autos and sometimes displaying Ford's biggest teaser: a three-eighths scale model of a drag racer designed by Ford stylists and called the Twister, which Ford may one day produce commercially. Soon, Ford intends to market "Cobra kits" that will enable hot rodders to modify standard Ford engines for high-performance events...
...sports-car buffs with pinched pockets and Mittyesque visions of checkered flags, Volkswagen racing is serious business. Grand Prix cars are strictly for pros, Ferraris are for millionaires, and Corvettes are for finance companies. The Formula Junior was supposed to be every man's racer-a pint-sized Grand Prix car that offered most of the thrills for a fraction of the cost. But prices quickly shot up to $7,000 or more...
...strictly according to the book. There was a Le Mans-type running start for the 17 sedan drivers, and the 18 Formula Vees had to give the sedans a one-minute head start. The speeds were low-"Sometimes I can get up to about 70 m.p.h.," confided one racer, "if the wind isn't too bad"-and so were the risks. But the racket was realistic: "Why it sounds just like a race," mused a spectator...
Married. Mamie Spears Reynolds, 20, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator Robert Reynolds, who at four inherited $10 million from her grandmother Evalyn Walsh McLean;* and Luigi Chinetti Jr., 20, partner with his father, a onetime auto racer, in the U.S. Ferrari franchise; in Manhattan...