Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some of the cars in the General Motors family have a front-fender line and a rear-window slope that resembles this year's Fords. Dodge's new compact, the Lancer, borrowed the 1960 Pontiac grill; the rest of the car is almost identical with the Chrysler Valiant...
...million before it found Delrin, a formaldehyde plastic with many of the properties of nylon that can be made at considerably less cost. Put on the market about a year ago, Delrin has already started to take a big bite out of the metal industry. In 1961 Chrysler Valiant will sport a Delrin instrument panel, the biggest single automotive use of unreinforced plastic. Several oil companies have bought Delrin pipes for oilfield use. It has already been incorporated in some 270 products, from aerosol bottles to zippers. Manufacturers' requests for its use are pouring in at the rate...
...guards down, spotted a group of 1961 Plymouth sedans behind a chain-link fence. He jumped from his car, snapped several pictures inside the gate before plant protection men gave chase. In Queens, N.Y., a sharp-eyed auto buff spotted both a new Plymouth Fury and a 1961 compact Valiant on a dealer's roof, stopped long enough to photograph them. Last month a Lansing, Mich, photographer made the biggest score of the season when he was tipped that the new Oldsmobile compact, the F-85, would appear on the street briefly for final inspection and testing. He laid...
...investigations have already circled around another high Chrysler executive. Jack Minor, marketing director of the Plymouth-De Soto-Valiant division, admitted that he was a principal owner and director until early this year of a Detroit company called Taxi-Ads, into which Chrysler has paid several hundred thousand dollars for advertising during the last eight years. Detroit insiders think that Minor may be the next to go. If he does, he probably will not be the last. From Washington came word that the Securities and Exchange Commission is studying the Newburg case to determine whether anyone violated SEC proxy regulations...
...selling well, Chevrolet rang up its best June ever, with sales of 190,215 cars, up 8.5% over June a year ago. Chevrolet six-month sales in 1960 also set an alltime record, up 16.5% over last year. June Rambler sales were up 11% over June last year; Plymouth Valiant sales for the first six months were 18% ahead of the first half of 1959, with the new Valiant accounting for 40% of the volume...