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We lived in farming country when I was growing up, so getting milk was but a short walk across the lane. My first experience with milk delivery came the summer I turned eight, when we went to Cape Cod. Our cottage colony was served by competing dairies, H.P. Hood & Son and White Brothers. Milk,….
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Emergency vehicles – ambulances, fire trucks, police cars – spend their lives racing to the aid of people. But when emergency vehicles fall ill, who looks after them? Well, people of course, people like Mike Riefer. Mike, of Owensville, Missouri, rescued this 1952 National Pontiac ambulance that had done double duty as his town’s primary….
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As tradition tells it, Fred Tone was watching the unloading of automobile chassis when he had one of those “better idea” moments. The frames were stacked upside down. Why not build cars that way, he reasoned, with axles above the chassis. They would have a much lower center of gravity and thus better handling. Tone….
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Timing, as they say, is everything. International Harvester’s timing seemed ideal, when it introduced the new Scout utility vehicle as a ’61 model. Intended to challenge the Jeep CJ-5, it offered more modern styling and a dose of creature comforts. Power came from a “half-V8” slant four, derived from a truck engine. Scouts could be….
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