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...only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some 60% of the country's 54,429 cars are pre-World War II vintage. "They are strong like a tank and high like a horse...
...summer, Palmer built up his arms by wrestling tractors and mowers over the course (he had to stand up to handle the wheel); in the winter he drove balls painted bright red into the snow. At eleven he was coolly offering advice to the club champion?and having it gratefully accepted. Palmer never tired of practicing. "He'd be yelling, 'Watch me! Watch me! Watch me, Pap!'" recalls Deacon Palmer. "You'd get so sick of him you'd feel like hitting him a lick...
JUNIOR-SIZE COMPACT with a slide-out engine for easy servicing is being developed by Ford, but, if mass produced, would not be on the market before 1962. The four-cylinder car would be smaller than a Volkswagen, with an 85-in. wheelbase and front-wheel drive, would sell for less than...
...Britain's Triumph Herald, a crisply designed convertible that delivers up to 40 miles a gallon, cruises at 65 m.p.h., costs $2,229. Another British entry is the ingeniously designed, diminutive (wheelbase: 80 in.) Morris 850, which has a laterally mounted engine, front-wheel drive, and seats four adults. Price...
...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...