Word: fastbacks
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...DAVID HOCKNEY, 27, looks as improbable as a figure in one of his own paintings. His fastback hair is peroxide blond, his eyes peep owlishly through black spectacles, and occasionally he sports a gold-lamé dinner jacket. Yorkshire-born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired...
...Mustang sales in August reached 35,299, the highest for any month. Sales so far: 132,905, which have provided the extra horsepower to boost Ford's share of the total auto market by one and a half points to 26.3%. For 1965, Ford plans to introduce a fastback version of the Mustang in addition to its present models...
...auto industry last week began producing the first 1965 cars, many potential customers speculated about the features that are expected to make for the most dramatically changed models in years. There will be a futuristic fastback shape for the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac line: a switch of seven models to vertical double headlights; the Ford's and Chrysler's new slab sides; a hop-up rear fender for the Chevrolet; and a new shape for the Corvair that makes it look like a miniature version of the Buick Riviera. These details, however, are ancient history to a small group...
...change: the Ambassador has been redesigned and enlarged to compete with the Big Three's intermediate-class cars, will be available in eight models ranging from a station wagon to a convertible. Abernethy has also given the Classic a face-lift and tooled up for a fastback sports car that will probably be called either the Marlin or Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself, he wants to have models in the bigger...
...from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission. Next year Ford will also add a fastback model to the line...