The Year of the Big Car Crunch And Your Purchase
Analyzes how fuel shortages and economic slump reshape car buying. Emphasizes choosing a family car by needs and budget, notes EPA testing limitations, and critiques safety features and hidden costs in 1970s models. Cautions buyers to assess size, use, and price range before shopping.
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EPA
Car safety costs and policy battle spurs auto industry action
The piece discusses safety costs raising car prices, industry lobbying to ease new rules, ongoing testing across models, and 421 new state police vehicles, a 1975 Plymouth Fury, with focus on leaded versus unleaded fuels. It notes upcoming evaluation of the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am in a Monday column.
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Charles F. Gallagher
Motor Vehicle Division
Waterloo
TFC
Tom Moore
Record breaking sprinters predict faster 220 time at Prefontaine Classic
Don Quarrie and Steve Williams both broke the world 220-yard record in Eugene clocking 19.9 seconds with Williams at 19.9 after Quarrie won by inches. Quarrie also tied the 200m world record at 19.2 and Williams ran 9.1 for 100 yards. Other event marks lag due to blustery winds at Hayward Field.
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Eugene, Ore
Don Quarrie
Steve Williams
Quarrie
Williams
Hayward Field
Tommie Smith
Oregon
Steve Prefontaine
Eugene
Bill Bowerman
Ep Tsile
Steve
San Diego
Ivory Crockett
Houston
Dwight Stones
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