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An American built VIP style Lexus GS showing off some VIP interior mods such as quilted leather seats, headrest pillows, tray tables and rear window curtains. VIP style (Japanese: ビップカー, lit. 'VIP car') is a car modification trend that translates from the Romanised Japanese term 'bippu.' It refers to the modification of Japanese ...
Mitter curtains are cloth-like or ribbon-styled materials that are used in many car washes worldwide. [1] The term mitter is the generic word for a device that moves side-to-side, [ 2 ] front-to-back [ 3 ] or carousel styles as vehicles pass through the car wash. [ 4 ]
The 1955 ComfortAire Conditioner ($400 est.) and 1956 SelectAire Conditioner ($435) were expensive options and only a few hundred (sources vary) were installed—rare cars, indeed. The ″Skyliner″ name was later applied to the 1957, 1958, and 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner cars that have the superb retractable hardtop, marketed as a ″hide ...
Doors on early production vehicles tended to jam. A switch to nylon roller bushings (retrofitted to early cars) corrected the problem to some extent but owners still had to keep door tracks free of dirt, mud or debris. [4] Also, the folding top and side curtains leaked and the heater proved inadequate.
The General Motors X platform (also called X-body) is a rear-wheel drive compact car automobile platform produced from the 1962 to 1979 model years. Developed by Chevrolet, the architecture was initially unique in the U.S. to the Chevy II, first joined by the Pontiac Ventura in 1971, then a range of other GM products as its divisions expanded their compact model lines.
The Brubaker Box was a car designed by Curtis Brubaker, Todd Gerstenberger and Harry Wykes. Brubaker got the idea from Volkswagen Minibuses, and attempted to update the concept. The body was designed to fit on the chassis of a Volkswagen Beetle. In 1972 after a deal with Volkswagen could not be reached, Brubaker began buying completed Beetles ...
The Hillman Minx was another low-cost small car which was clearly not designed to be chauffeured, and in 1931 it was offered in a variety of body styles as was usual at that time, among the options was a sliding roof section [5] including, on the 1933 Aero model [6] with glass panels, as photographed on the 1932 show car, [7] making this the ...
The Ford Falcon is a full-size car that was manufactured by Ford Australia from 1960 to 2016. From the XA series of 1972 onward, each Falcon and range of derivates have been designed, developed, and built in Australia, following the phasing out of the American-influenced Falcon of 1960 to 1971, which had been re-engineered locally as the XK to XY series for the harsher Australian conditions.