Word: sunroofs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summers in Daytona Beach, playing golf in the moonless nights by flashlight, seeing how many times we could go around a traffic circle without getting dizzy, riding on the top of the hood of my car down the beach with no driver (steering with our feet through the open sunroof, and a book on the accelerator pedal) or driving through the Tomoka swamp roads to watch the phosphorescence on the drooping Spanish moss. I was very curious to see him because rumor had it that he was engaged...
Automakers send their cars to Prechter's American Sunroof Corp. plants in Michigan, California and Georgia. This year American Sunroof, which is almost entirely owned by Prechter, will make and install about 38,000 roofs and have sales of more than $7,000,000. A millionaire at 32, Prechter owns two other companies that specialize in auto-customizing work. He counts among his clients Folk Singer Glen Campbell, for whom he transformed a Cadillac Eldorado into a station wagon, and many Saudi Arabians, to whom he has so far shipped 100 luxurious Prechterized Cadillacs...
...lonely beach in Southern California. Seeing a pair of armed men approaching, the driver instinctively turned his ignition key to make a fast getaway. Nothing happened. Then, while the driver and his date were frantically buckling up, one mugger thrust his gun through the car's sunroof and relieved the lovers of their money...
...sliding sun roof. "It allows light and ventilation," says Norwood, "but shuts out dirt, noise and potential thieves." Until recently, demand had been too small for automakers to set up an assembly-line procedure for making sun roofs; they still send many cars to the seven-year-old American Sunroof Co. of Southgate, Mich., where craftsmen cut a hole in the roof and install a sliding steel panel. But the market is expanding so swiftly that in January American Motors began making sun roofs on its own assembly lines...