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...visible changes in the company's "bread and butter" models aim for a sleeker appearance and simpler ornamentation. Fins on the Chrysler's rear fenders give the car a longer, more sculptured silhouette. Chrysler stylists eliminated the huge and unsightly vertical parking lights of the 1963 Plymouth, and gave the car a new front bumper and a lower, wider look. The new Dodge has slablike front fenders a la the current Oldsmobile, along with new horizontally placed dual headlights. The compact Valiant has a more massive horizontal front grille and vertical rear lights...
Some of Detroit's 1964 offerings will be changed simply because their styling has been around too long. The four-year-old Falcon will lose its rounded look for more angular lines, and the Comet will look sleeker and longer. The plump Thunderbird will be completely restyled to give it le .n-looking body lines. The Rambler American will grow four inches, look more like the larger Rambler models. Chrysler's Imperial will resemble the Lincoln Continental-and Detroit is hardly surprised. After all, new Chrysler Stylist Elwood Engel came from Ford, where he was largely responsible...
...rest of the industry has moved ahead with restyled models. Consumer research dictated that Ford concentrate on econ omy features in its models; but G.M., with a more intuitive feeling for the shifting desires and quirks of motorists, had the field almost to itself when the public began demanding sleeker convertibles and pizazz features...
...area in which the Radcliffe girl lives is "a kind of secular Vatican," Arlen says, "keeping its own counsel amid the sprawl and bafflements of the town." Here the sleeker, better-looking 'Cliffie drinks coffee in haunts such as "Leavitt & Pierce's [sic], as dark...
...side of each front fender just to the rear of the headlight. When the driver flicks his turn indicator at night, the cornering light floods the area into which he is turning with a wide, low arc of light. Otherwise, like most 1962s, the new Cadillac is simply a sleeker version of the 1961 model...