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Automotive Views: The otherworldly truth about Virgil Exner
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Chrysler’s Lynn Townsend giveth and taketh on warranties
“Hard-eyed Townsend caught the industry with its pants down in 1962 when Chrysler suddenly offered its customers a five-year or 50,000-mile warranty on principal engine and power-train components on new cars. Industry practice at the […]
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Why wasn’t the 1971 ‘boat-tail’ Buick Riviera shrunk to compact size?
(UPDATED FROM 6/16/2024) David Burrell has written what may be the most detailed account of how William Mitchell vainly tried to shift the “boat-tail” 1971 Buick Riviera to a mid-sized platform. Burrell’s story in Retro […]
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