Word: v8
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mercury, the Fords' newcomer, has 116-in. wheelbase, a crested, prow-cut hood front, with low, horizontal grille work, bird's-eye headlights in the fender fronts, a V8, 95-h. p. motor. Price: $934 Gadget: pinpoint pilot light for the ignition keyhole...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...
...impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson...
...observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane...
...production methods such as many automobile makers already have, they have considered going into the business of making "flivver planes." Last week such a flivver plane was sold. It was not made by an automobile manufacturer, but it was powered by a standard mass-produced automobile engine-the Ford V8...