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...lower, have optional air-suspension ride and a slight horsepower increase to 290 h.p. Two new models: a sporty Impala hardtop and a convertible, both with 280 h.p. to compete with Ford's Thunderbird. Pontiac is just as new, with revamped, rocket-ornamented body, double-barreled taillight and a bigger, 300-h.p. engine...
...Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance reports on the new cars, and styling tips for faddists who keep their autos a la mode with rear-seat TV, stain-pearl paint made of crushed fish scales, "chopped tops" (i.e., lowering the cab) and taillight kits that make a 1952 Ford as finny as a '57 Plymouth...
...Snap & a Taillight. The baling-wire-and-razor experiments are part of a do-it-yourself program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water...
...Cadillac will look much like last year's $8,500 Eldorado special model. Grilles are lower and wider-looking; the traditional Caddy taillight fin has been replaced by a thinner, all-metal fin jutting above a cluster of taillights set down near the bumper; and the body has been dropped to reduce overall height another 3 in. to 59 in. on the 60 Special and 62 Sedan. Power: up 15 h.p. to 300 h.p. in the standard engine, up 40 h.p. to 325 h.p. in the special V-8 installed as optional equipment in 1957 Eldorado models...
...News Fits ... In Chillicothe, Mo., while publicizing an auto safety inspection campaign, the daily Constitution-Tribune sent its office station wagon through the check line, got back a report: no emergency brake, faulty muffler, dim signal lights, missing taillight. badly adjusted foot brakes, two broken windows...