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Chevrolet this week brought out a new model of its Corvette in an attempt to overtake Ford's Thunderbird, which outdistanced all competitors with 16,000 units in 1955. The 1956 Corvette still sports a plastic body, but boosted horsepower 15% to 225 h.p. Optional: a power-operated top and a floor-mounted manual shift (instead of Powerglide...
...taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change in the rear. It hung the tire mount outside to make more room in the luggage compartment...
...Automobile Association recently. Last week, as more and more of 1956's new models hit the showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers were so high that state legislators talked seriously about cutting speed limits, increasing fines and auto taxes, even passing laws requiring...
FORDS FOR '56 will be lower (down 1 in. for two-and four-door sedans), and higher-powered but little changed in appearance. Higher-priced models will have the Thunderbird Y-8 motor (up to 202 h.p.). Thunderbird production has topped 16,000 in its first year, 25% more than Ford anticipated, but still less than demand...
...exhibit, from an aqua-green Thunderbird to an automatic voting machine on which visitors registered their favorite products, easily outdazzled competition from Red China, even though its display of heavy equipment included machinery made in satellite Europe...