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...Grand Prix car-cigar-shaped body, roll bar and all-by buying a kit for $945. An extra $1,000 buys a brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number on the door is enough to transform it into a "touring class" racing machine...
...even yell at the other drivers." At the Bahamas Speed Weeks, while martini glasses tinkled and bountiful blondes chased their heroes through the pits, Gurney took the wheel of a bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife fretted nervously while inspectors stripped it apart to make sure that no slick mechanic had installed a Cadillac engine. "I hope they can get it back together," she said. "This is our transportation...
...next car in line, an open touring sedan containing agents bristling with weapons, followed swiftly. In the third car, an open convertible carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, security agents yelled for the passengers to duck low, and that car followed in wild pursuit...
...units to 250,000 this year, and that its world wide sales will jump almost 10%, to $1.75 billion. In Germany, hopeful buyers still have to wait up to six weeks for delivery of a standard VW and three months for the company's bigger, costlier 1500 sedan (TIME, Sept...
...officially designated the 1200. The 1500 is about six inches longer and three inches wider than the 1200, has fairly orthodox lines and a pronounced front hood -even though its more powerful engine remains in the rear. It sells in Germany for $1,500 for a two-door sedan, $300 more than the 1200 sedan, also comes as a station wagon for $1,600. Nordhoff hopes to double output of the bigger Volkswagen to 2,000 cars daily within six months, will slightly cut back production of the standard Volkswagen to achieve this...