Word: rears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small Cars. Studebaker has placed all bets on a square-looking small car, with Hawklike grille, called the Lark. It is 175 in. long (v. 209.1 in. for the '58 Chevy), but roomy inside because the company saved space by slicing down the front end and the rear bustle. "Everybody likes the pictures," said Salesman Jim Hockney of Manhattan's Studebaker-Packard Salon Inc. "We have orders, with deposits, for 40 cars-which is just 39 more than we had last year at this time." The new American Motors Rambler is almost the same...
...teased buyers by surreptitiously showing off pictures of the '59s. Most of them have cleaner lines, less chrome. Trusted customers and fleet buyers even were allowed to snatch glimpses of the cars. In Chicago one major Chrysler Corp. dealer looked the other way while visitors tiptoed into the rear showrooms to peek at the new models. Almost all dealers were well ahead of last year in specific orders, figured that the growing recovery in the economy will keep sales improving. Dealers also look for a sales boost from the new federal law that requires factory-suggested list prices...
...Price Scramble. Chevrolet, due out in a fortnight, is the most completely restyled car in the low-priced three. The Impala features big, out-flaring rear fins, a rear window that sweeps around for a panoramic view and a front window that sweeps into the roof. The Chevy is 1 in. longer and 3½ in. wider than the '58, much roomier inside. Another noticeable change: Price. Dumped is the lowest-priced series, the Delray, because it brought in only about 13% of '58 sales; Chevy increased prices of other models as much as $139. Thus, the cheapest...
Plymouth boasts an optional, Imperial-like spare-tire compartment on the sloping rear deck. Dealers expect that one new feature will sell well to women and oldsters: swivel front seats that make it simpler to get in and out. Chicago's Fohrman Motors has had 100 nibbles from potential customers for Chrysler Corp. cars, 90 of them for station wagons. A record 28% of Plymouth's '58 output went to station wagons, and Plymouth dealers talk hopefully of 40% to 45% station-wagon sales this year. The new DeSoto made its debut in the press last week...
...soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart of Paris. Trigger-happy police began shooting down dark-skinned Italians and Portuguese in the belief that they were Algerian...