Word: spyder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than enough power to pull them. Even River Queen's houseboat is equipped with twin engines, which push the poky hull up to 30 m.p.h. Buehler Corp. exhibits its Bolero with water-jet propulsion that can make 44 m.p.h. Even closer to being airborne is Water Spyder Marine Ltd.'s first hydrofoil pleasure craft. Twelve feet overall and priced at $970, it can ride up onto its foils in seconds, tow a skier at close to 40 m.p.h...
...names, he may need The World Almanac, a foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect image, despite Chevy disclaimers), Oldsmobile's F85 and Starfire (odes to the jet age). And there are more to come...
...Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...with a tuned 244-cu.-in. engine and special suspension designed to cruise at 120 m.p.h., and the Cougar 406, with gull-wing doors and a top speed of 160 m.p.h. Chevrolet's sports compact is a 150-h.p. version of the Corvair known as the Monza Spyder, and there are two special show models of the Corvette-the Shark and the Kelly...
...wear no safety belts, rely on heavy leather jackets for protection. Brakes are sometimes rudimentary; the steering is so sensitive that the slightest nudge of the wheel is enough to jerk the nose around. Most important, a 125-lb., 18-h.p. go kart can match a red-hot Porsche "Spyder" in weight-to-horsepower ratio, and is just as likely to spin out on high-speed curves. After turning two laps in a go kart, Sam Hanks, winner of the 1957 Indianapolis 500, pulled up with a sigh of relief: "This is the most overpowered car I've ever...