Word: seater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sporting Life. At Chicago's auto show this week, Nash will show off its two-seater sports roadster, the first such car produced by a major U.S. manufacturer in 20 years. The Nash Healey, designed for Nash by Great Britain's famed Donald Healey Co., is only 38 inches from road to hood top. It is powered by a 125-h.p. version of Nash's six-cylinder Ambassador engine, can do 125 m.p.h. The engine and major mechanical parts will be made by Nash, the bodies by Healey in England. The car will be assembled by Healey...
Russia has moved in on the low-priced car market in Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...
...according to Novelist Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, the smart Oxford undergraduate ate plovers' eggs, read T. S. Eliot, drove a Morris-Cowley two-seater, might even carry a pet Teddy bear around with...
...refugee author and his family will be accompanied by Shute's faithful private secretary, the Shute gardener and handyman, and his four-seater Percival-Proctor monoplane ("To fly your own plane is the ideal way for an author to travel"). Says Shute: "I want my two daughters to finish their education in Australia. At the end of five years, they can decide if they want to stay in that prosperous but somewhat uncultured country or return to this bleak but cultured and traditional land." Even down under, Shute estimates, he would be able to pocket only a puny...
...time he spent at Cannes, on the French Riviera, where he had bought the palatial Château de Thorenc (reported purchase price: $250,000). In his garage were a pale blue Lincoln convertible, a black Citroen limousine, a blue Simca "Gordoni" one-seat racer, a sleek Italian two-seater, a Simca-8 sports model. He also kept several motorcycles. He insisted that every engine run "as accurately as a watch...