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David Jensen, 38, a real estate broker in West Bloomfield, Mich., has traditionally bought a new car every two years. He purchased his fully equipped Lincoln Town Car for $13,000 in 1979. Last week Jensen returned to his dealer's showroom to eye the new Continental, but he quickly became another victim of what Detroit calls "sticker shock." The price on the car's window: $25,692. Says he: "Damn, that is expensive! It persuaded me to keep driving my '80 until it won't go any more. Then I'm going...
Divorced nine years ago and still single, Kamali rarely goes to parties or socializes, and spends most of her time in the basement workroom of her midtown Manhattan store. She lives next door to her shop with a miniature dachshund, Ernie, in a small, one-bedroom converted marble showroom. Though the name of her shop-OMO, for On My Own-has a militant ring, Kamali is not an ardent feminist. (The first business she shared with her husband was called Kamali, and to break clean with the past she settled on the name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level...
...models alongside their own. He is gambling that his models will outdo the competition and that he can eventually take over some franchises. One St. Joseph, Mo., dealer who has been affiliated with Ford for 24 years is now outselling Fords with Chryslers by 3 to 1 off his showroom floor...
...going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch if she wanted it just to sit in the car." It's practically--no, it is--a bona fide matter of honor. A bona fide matter of honor right here in his prefab Ford showroom in the middle of nowhere...
South of the Border is not artificial-flowers-formica-tables-plastic-trails-through-the-living-room a little tacky. It is the showroom of tack, all the kitsch of America distilled into 100 acres by the side of 1-95. There are 304 motel units, 103 campsites, four restaurants, three gas stations, 17 stores, miniature golf, a train ride through the woods, not to mention a 200-foot observation sombrero, all based on a Mexican theme filtered through several layers of bias, ignorance and Hanna-Barbera. As the brochure says, "Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos, where Pedro...