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...almost all flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster, a low-slung (42.8-in.-high) model with a reinforced glass-fiber body and an experimental 150-h.p., V-6 engine that G.M. engineers hope will enable them to cut down on engine space in the future...
...Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster-and he did that badly. To many viewers, after such a drumbeat of ecstatic praises, it seemed only fair that the door on one of the new cars didn't open...
...moment it landed in Liverpool, Paul J. Tusek's 1906-model Stanley Steamer turned the first Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames...
...Abdallah sat until the Sultan, shaded by a parasol and fanned by a long-handled fly sweeper, drew near. Ben Abdallah revved up the motor, threw the old roadster into gear and roared at 40 m.p.h. straight at the mounted Sultan. For a startled instant, the Sultan watched the oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife...
...worldly. Its members heeded the ads and subscribed to the New York Times ("Sports News Written by College Men") and Vanity Fair ("Published for what is probably the most intelligent group of readers in the world"). The junior might even have bought a raccoon coat for $275, a Dusenberg Roadster for $1750, or one of Langrock's Nassau model sack coats...