Well, this changes the game in a few ways. Car and Driver clocked one at 7.8 seconds 0-60, but pulling power, not sheer acceleration, was the name of this game — as in towing trailers and boats. Magazine testers clocked 0-60 in the mid-fives and the quarter-mile in about 14.5 seconds at 95 mph. Where […]
Captain Rollet would command this unit until June 1914, through operations and fighting in Morocco, around Rabat, Kénitra, Fez and Taza. Vincent Rollet (2019) ‘Health Interregionalism in Combating Communicable Diseases. The Chevrolet Nomad – and specifically the Nomad with its Tri-Five design from 1955 through 57 – not only managed to look cool, but it […]
Ford sold 20,766 Skyliners for ’57, but demand fast tapered to 14,713 for ’58, then to 12,915. The model was duly axed after 1959, a victim of new division chief Bob McNamara’s no-nonsense approach to products and profits. A full steel-roof model was also offered for $70 less than the «bubble-topper»; predictably, it sold much […]
From this handful of men that remained and the reinforcements that he would receive, Lieutenant Colonel Rollet reformed the elite unit. At the end of 1906, a few months before the beginning of the French campaign in Morocco, Lieutenant Rollet left for the Algerian-Moroccan border, assigned as a platoon leader to the 3rd Mounted Company […]
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