Word: v8
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the spare, stooped grey-haired dean of the premier U. S. industry launched a 1935 edition of the Ford V8, Model 48. And for the first time in his life he launched a model at the New York Automobile Show, No. 1 of the great fairs where the men from the motormaking provinces of the Midwest each year exhibit their newest and finest transportation wares...
...start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short-wave radio set and decorated with the sheriff's badge. With Blunk at the wheel, and another hostage, the two fugitives set off across country...
...motormakers which brought their glistening yearlings to the Show last week, proudest was General Motors. Its litter was six-a full line. Apple of its eye was Cadillac, its high-priced line at $2,395 for the V8, $3,995 for the V-12's and $6,650 for the V16. Built only on order, the V16 remained a limited edition. All Cadillacs have independent front-wheel suspension ("knee- action...
Among the other prices, for which the motoring public has been waiting almost three months, are: V8 de luxe sedan, $645; V8 chassis, 370; and L4 tudor sedan, $450. All prices are F.O.B. Detroit, shipping charges to Boston amounting to about...
Five hundred dollars will be the list price of the new V8 Ford tudor sedan, it was announced last night. It was learned simultaneously that all models of the new L4 will cost about $50 less than the corresponding eights, a substantial drop from the price of last year's standard model...