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When Detroit's Jefferson Avenue assembly plant rolled out its first Chrysler in 1925, there were 56 optimistic American automakers. Along with familiar names such as Ford, Chevrolet and Cadillac were ones that have now become quaint, like Stutz Bearcat, Reo and Jordan. This year another new car is coming off the Jefferson Avenue assembly line. But today's Detroit is far more sober about its debut. Only four U.S. auto companies remain, and two of those, American Motors and Chrysler, are in danger of going the way of the Stutz Bearcat...
...Bearcat coach Gale Catlett has countered his graduation losses with the recruitment of six talented freshmen, including 6 ft. 10 in. starting pivotman, Bob Miller, who captained his high school to the Kentucky state championship...
...rock aviators who converged on Reno for last week's National Championship Air Races divided naturally into two classes. There were the pros, like Lockheed Test Pilot Darryl Greenamyer, 31, who won the "unlimited" championship in a surplus Navy Grumman Bearcat, wrenching his way around an eight-mile course at 396 m.p.h. And there were the purists, like 54-year-old Bill Falck of Warwick, N.Y., who screamed around a 2.5-mile course at 202 m.p.h. to win the Formula I competition. In airplane racing, the difference between the pros and the purists is that purists, like Falck, build...
...Yale philosophy professor, onetime Marine fighter pilot and full-time individualist, whose own philosophy of life was that "it is very short and should be lived to the hilt," a proposition he assiduously followed by buying himself a 500-m.p.h. brute of a war-surplus F-8-F Bearcat, in which he buzzed the Yale Bowl and roared aloft in fantastic aerobatics, sometimes before the enthralled crowds at air shows, more often just for the pure, unadulterated hell of it; when his Bearcat plowed into a hill 15 miles from Cortland, N.Y., on his way to Ithaca, for a lecture...
MOTOR CARS OF THE GOLDEN PAST by Ken W. Purdy. 216 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $30. A nostalgic look at the days when now-vanished beauties such as the Apperson Jack Rabbit, the Pierce Arrow, the Willis Sainte Claire and the Stutz Bearcat tore up American roads. The vintage year was 1929, with its Kissel White Eagle, the Graham-Paige 837 with skirted fenders, the boat-tailed Auburn roadster and the dual-cowled Duesenberg phaeton. Park a while and reminisce...