Word: rodders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope, a hot-rodder might say, has a heavy foot. When he drives from Rome to Castel Gandolfo, 79-year-old Pius XII usually leans forward in his Cadillac, stop watch in hand, ready to complain to the chauffeur if the 17.4-mile trip takes 19 instead of 18 minutes...
...Rodder. Curtice has a hot-rodder's feeling for cars, likes to trick up his own cars with new gadgets and styling changes. While former President Charlie Wilson was content to travel around in a sedate Cadillac sedan, Red Curtice likes to dash around his home town of Flint in a sporty grey-blue Buick Skylark. (He had it fitted with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test...
...Disclosed to S. R. Burkholder, the trucking industry's "Driver of the Year," that he had been an enthusiastic hot-rodder in his youth, and as a young officer had owned a souped-up Ford, but admitted giving up driving altogether 15 years ago, because he had so many things on his mind and couldn't concentrate on the job of driving...
...auto industry, though scrabbling for manpower and materials, last week was bursting with plans and hopes for 1953. In the works are the biggest batch of changes in a decade: new bodies, airconditioning, power steering, power brakes and engines so peppy that every driver can feel like a hot-rodder. By hiring women and bringing back pensioned employees (as the United Auto Workers asked Ford to do last week), automen think they can meet their arms schedules and still turn out 5,000,000 cars in 1953, about the same number as this year...
...Jetmobile, built by Richard Harp, 27, a hot rodder from Boonsboro, Md. He spent two years and $2,500 on his three-wheeled car, whose body is made of three airplane belly gasoline tanks. With a Lycoming 75-horsepower aircraft engine in the rear, it can do an estimated 120 m.p.h...