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...division general manager. Last week Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted to the brand-new post of corporate vice president of North American vehicle product development. Frey is Detroit's sharpest idea man. Besides the Mustang, he is responsible for such innovations as the four-door Thunderbird, the stereo dashboard tape deck, and the station-wagon door that opens out as well as down. He is one of the few auto executives with experience in all three of the industry's essential areas: design, manufacture and sales. In his new job, which covers operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Thinker (Detroit Style) | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...about bugging and hypnosis as well as polygraphy. Along with electronic gadgets, his jet-age operation includes five office cars and five investigators headed by the former chief investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: The Boston Prodigy | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Everybody Has One. Specialty cars date back to the early 1950s when Ford introduced the Thunderbird and the Mark II Lincoln Continental, and Chevrolet came out with its fiber glass fendered Corvette. Then in 1963, Buick introduced its Riviera. The market really began rolling two years ago when Ford brought out the hot, bright, popularly priced Mustang. Every other auto division in Detroit rushed to produce something like it. Dodge pushed the Charger, Oldsmobile the Toronado, Cadillac the elegant Eldorado, and American Motors Corp. the Marlin. Chrysler-Plymouth cut a year off the development time of the Barracuda in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Specialty Market | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...Saudi Arabian border towns supplying the royalists. For his part Saudi King Feisal is arming for more trouble. On top of a long-range $500 million arms package signed last December with the U.S. and Britain, Feisal recently signed an additional smaller arms deal with Britain, for 36 Thunderbird antiaircraft missiles and ten rocket-and-missile jet fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: In the Old Style | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Thunderbird 2-dr. hardtop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Price of Safety | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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