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...parade, Buick tricked up is convertible with a new body, the Skylark; Cadillac brought out its El Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low-Slung Beauty | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...General Motors' costly ($4,100,000) show of its new cars in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, U.S. Steel's Director Irving S. Olds stared thoughtfully at the Corvette, Chevrolet's shiny, white experimental sports roadster. Olds* had good reason to stare-and perhaps to worry. The Corvette's body is molded of fiber-glass plastic, one-quarter the weight of steel but equally as strong for most products, though much more expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Glass Ahead? | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...boost production from 720 to 1,000 cars a month. Jaguar is aiming three-fourths of this production at the dollar market. Moreover, it is concentrating on its Mark 7 sedan angled especially toward American and Canadian tastes and powered with the same motor as its speedy XK-120 roadster. Where Jaguar sold 2,886 cars in the U.S. last year, this year it will sell 4,000 at around $4,000 each, next year expects to sell 6,000. And Jaguar has 240 new U.S. dealers anxious to augment its existing 205 as soon as increased production permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Cream for a Fast Cat | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...American Underslung, so named because its frame was hung from beneath its axles, making the all-aluminum body not much higher than the huge (41½ in.) wheels. Designed by Harry C. Stutz, whose later Bearcat was the sportiest roadster of the '20s, the four-cylinder Underslung cost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Timers | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...practiced law, served as chief judge of the Baltimore Juvenile Court, retired in 1943, and is now one of the most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Memories of the Rabbit | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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