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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Annual changes to vehicles kept customers coming back, marketing happy with new things to advertise, and made it clear to the general public if you could afford a new car (or not).

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. Gaynor says the best part about being an IEEE volunteer is the camaraderie.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 Ferrari Ferrari, for its part, refuses to sacrifice its fabled handling and sensations on the electric altar. The Ferrari hybrid, for its part, still wails like a La Scala tenor to an emotional, 8,000-rpm peak. Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second

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