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...shiny Impala hardtop and a Corvette Sting Ray in the background. Ford is receiving a lift among the young from a new hit twist tune that tells about a hot rodder who took his Ford-powered Cobra out to the track to race Chevrolet Sting Rays and Jaguar XK-Es. Sings the rodder...
...have a 117-in. wheelbase, 340-h.p. engine, and come in a four-passenger, two-door, hardtop model. Chevrolet, also hoping to cut in on the Thunderbird, plans to introduce a Corvette model with the "fastback look" (Detroitese for the convex rear lines popularized by Jaguar's hot XK-E). The big Chevrolet will have its rear doctored to resemble the pointed silhouette of this year's Chevy II. Pontiac will set its dual headlights vertically, and on the pizazz Grand Prix plans to introduce a new "prestige" color: iridescent blue-black...
...star of TV's long-running (four years) Highway Patrol series, tough-guy Actor Broderick Crawford, arrived in London on vacation, startled newshounds by disclosing that he no longer touches a steering wheel. Patrolman Crawford explained: "On California's coast highway, one time, I got my Jaguar XK-140 up to 120 m.p.h. before I was stopped at a roadblock. Ever since, it's become a game with police officers to pick me up. Now I have a chauffeur...
...dealers anxious to cash in on the sudden rise in the popularity of small foreign cars, whose chromeless lines are a far cry from Detroit's behemoths. But retail sales also zipped along at supermarket speed. Jaguar sold its entire yearly production of 2,100 of its new XK 150 ($5,000) and the six-month production of its Mark VIII sedan, decided on the spot that it will be able to sell 12,000 cars in the U.S. next year instead of the projected 7,500. West Germany's Autounion sold 762 cars, and France...
...lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...