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...seater Excalibur, custom-made in Milwaukee, is a fiber-glass replica of the 1927-29 Mercedes-Benz SSK, fitted onto a Studebaker Cruiser chas sis and propelled by a 350-h.p. Corvette engine. Sonny's model set him back about $10,000, which is cheap considering that the Excalibur is the car-of-the-month in Hollywood, and that, furthermore, owning the car-of-the-month wins nearly as many prestige points these days as punching Frank Sinatra in the gush...
...tramp on the accelerator and do battle. But the prudent motorist respectfully pulls into the right lane when he sees a blue and white me dallion on a weasel-like grille barreling down upon him. And with good reason, for it is the emblem of the sleek five-seater produced by the Bayerische Motoren Werke. The BMW can outperform and overtake almost any standard German car on the autobahn. This year it proved that it could outdo its competitors in the market place as well: amidst a general economic slowdown and dwindling car sales in Germany, peppery little...
ENGLAND, accustomed to the annual American demand to see Windsor Castle and the Shakespeare country, will spice up the trip with a bit of 18th century sophistication. For $150, travelers can take a three-day tour in a 17-seater coach-and-four; the package includes meals and rooms at medieval inns along the way. Scotland beckons with the Edinburgh Festival. Newly popular: such far-north Highland hideouts as Aviemor, 30 miles from Inverness...
Changing the Design. Long known as a munitions and armaments maker, and recently a manufacturer of anti-aircraft guns for North Viet Nam, Skoda is also an automotive pioneer. The firm built its first car, an open-top two-seater called the Voiturette, as early as 1901. After World War II and the Communist takeover, Skoda's major model was a small sedan called the Oktavia, which gained little popularity in the West. Yet it was only after a long fight that Skoda's management was given government permission to make the radical design departure from the Oktavia...
Closing the Vise. The H13 chopper was routinely inspecting the lacework of dikes and mangrove swamps controlled by the Viet Cong since the early 1960s, when red tracers lanced up and dropped the two-seater into a paddy like a stunned moth. Two larger Hueys, bristling with rockets and M-60 machine guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet...