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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Louis on November 7, 1963. The answer is, of course, Marauder. The Mercury brand itself departed this world after 2011.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. For Sutherland, engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension.

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