Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent shows. We won the highest talent show in Indiana, and then we went over to Illinois and won there. It got so we could play nightclubs in Chicago like the High Chaparral and the Guys and Gals Club. This was on the weekends. I had a Volkswagen bus and I bought a big luggage rack and put it on top and had everybody on the inside of the bus. One day I noticed when I was coming out of the yard that the instruments on top of the bus were taller than...
...golds and a team bronze in cross-country for Finland. East and West Germans held forth generally in their luges and bobs. With $10,000, Americans made a hot last-minute purchase, picking up Switzerland's third-fastest four-man bobsled. After a brisk paint job at a Volkswagen shop, then a tippy practice run, four happy men led by Jeff Jost rode U.S.A. I to fifth place, behind G.D.R. I, G.D.R. II, Swiss I and Swiss II, and ahead of both Russian "cigarskis." While the U.S. took less glory and spread it around better (in 1980, Speedskater Eric...
...twin sunroofs can cost $16,000. The average price of a new car sold in the U.S. today is close to $11,000. All the major automakers are going after this fast-growing market. Toyota will ship 40,000 of its Van Wagons to the U.S. this year, and Volkswagen expects to sell 25,000 Vanagons in America during 1984. General Motors and Ford will not launch vans until early in 1985. Both firms chose to put out a line of small trucks before the minivans. To catch up, Ford has even taken the unusual step of displaying a mock...
Code had played "town" junior B hockey in high school but Carleton Place was too isolated for alumni resulting networks to reach. After taking a year off before college to work as a mechanic in his father's Volkswagen dealership, the defenseman began writing coaches about their hockey programs. He got no positive responses...
...Japanese, meanwhile, have virtually pushed low-priced European imports out of the U.S. market. Italy's Fiat stopped selling here earlier this year, and Renault will no longer offer its Le Car in America. Although Volkswagen still makes Rabbits at its plant in Westmoreland, Pa., it imports only pricier models like the Jetta, Sirocco and Quantum...