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Convertibles coming out
Chrysler changing image
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — The rebirth of
the convertible is symbolic of
Chrysler Corporation’s attempts
to bury its reputation for build
ing a stodgy, unexciting auto.
“The old image was old peo
ple and four-door cars,” said
Warren Gieselman, a Chrysler-
Plymouth dealer in St. Louis.
They’ve done a lot to change
that perception. Now they’re
attracting young people.”
Although American auto
sales are at an all-time low,
Chrysler is finding a market for
its sporty convertibles. The de
mand is great enough that em
ployees at the company’s assem
bly plant in suburban Fenton are
working overtime for the re
mainder of the 1982 model year.
The plant has been produc
ing about 250 convertibles a day
since April, and the cars now
account for more than 50 per
cent of the production output.
Tom McAlear of Chrysler’s
sales divison in St. Louis says the
rebirth of the convertible came
about after a series of studies
showed there was a demand for
them.
“The combination of front-
wheel drive and the gas mileage
made them marketable,” he
said. “We have been able to pro
ject enough volume to make it
profitable.”
Convertibles had been a
mainstay of the auto industry
until they gradually dis
appeared in the early 1970s.
Chrysler had not offered a rag-
top since 1971.
The decline was blamed on
several factors — the cars were
said to be noisy, leaky, unsafe
rattletraps.
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard 208, which came out in
1972 and set criteria for occu
pant safety during crashes, play
ed a major role in the disappear
ance. The negative publicity that
accompanied the legislation
affected sales enough to even
tually halt production.
McAlear said the convertible
market also had been “over
saturated,” and agreed that
wind noise played a role because
of the emergence of the car
stereo.
He conceded that past con
vertibles rattled and leaked be
cause the auto manufacturers li
terally cut the tops off regular
models to make them. He said
Chrysler now is using a different
design and structure to produce
the convertibles.
“We’re not just taking a
LeBaron and Dodge 400 and
cutting the tops off,” he said.
“We’ve restructured the wind
shield, put a strength beam
down the middle of the car and
reinforced the body with extra
metal.
Mom not bitter
at kidnapper
United Press International
GALVESTON — The
mother of a week-old infant kid
napped within hours of her
birth said she holds no bitterness
toward the suspect whose uncle
returned the child to author
ities, and who has disappeared.
Carolyn Haynes, 17, of
Beaumont, was reunited Tues
day with her child, Christina
Lynn Lewis Haynes, after a
Houston minister delivered the
infant to the Galveston police
station.
The Rev. Elmer Ray Smith
said his niece, Jacklin Smith, 23,
admitted to posing as a nurse in
order to abduct the infant July
13.
Authorities traveled to Hous-
No need
to avoid
meat: profs
United Press International
LUBBOCK — A National
Academy of Science report that
linked meat to cancer risks was
unfair, and Americans need not
reduce the amount of meat in
their diets, say researchers at
Texas Tech University.
Animal science professors
Robert A. Long, C. Boyd Ram
sey and Leland F. Tribble said
they disagreed with the recent
NAS report, which criticized the
quantity of meat in the human
diet.
“According to the National
Center for Health Statistics, sto
mach and rectal cancers are
down since 1900,” Long said.
“At the same time, the U.S. De
partment of Agrculture finds
that meat consumption, particu
larly beef, veal and poultry, is
up.”
Long, Ramsey and Boyd said
the NAS report, which linked
meat consumption to the risk of
cancer, failed to offer conclusive
evidence that supported recom
mendations that Americans cut
down on meat.
Ramsey maintains the in
crease in animal fat is up just 9
percent, with vegetable fat con
sumption up 50 percent and
vegetable shortening and mar
garine fats up 41 percent.
ton before dawn Tuesday and
confiscated baby bottles and
diapers from a residence where
the suspect, 23, lived with a
cousin for three days after the
abduction.
The cousin, Albert Johnson
III of Houston, said the woman
stayed at his house for three
days and he at first believed the
child was hers.
Elmer Smith said a sketch of
the abductor looked like his
niece, and the getaway car being
described sounded like his sta
tion wagon, so he confronted his
niece.
“She explained to me she had
two girls,” he said. “She said one
of them had been sold for be
tween $20,000 and $30,000 to
the black market.”
“We feel like we have con
quered the problem,” he said.
“We’ve had no complaints or re
calls.”
Auto safety experts agree the
new design has helped elimi-
mate some of the danger prob
lems.
Wayne Young, manager of
the Auto Club of Missouri’s
diagnostic center, says the rein
forced windshield has made it
possible for the convertibles to
pass safety tests.
“They have finally overcome
the barrier with the main wind
shield structure built to with
stand the roll-overs,” said
Young.
A spokesman for the Vehicle
Safety Standards Division of the
National Highway Traffic Safe
ty Administration in Washing
ton said convertibles have to
meet the same safety standards
as other cars.
“A belted occupant is not that
bad off,” he said.
If safety is no longer a prob
lem, price might be for some
potential buyers. The LeBaron
Mark Cross edition, which fea
tures a leather interior, lists at
$14,900. The LeBaron highline
convertible, which has a stan
dard interior, has a suggested
retail price of $12,500.
McAlear said the LeBaron
Mark Cross editions are the best
sellers.
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“Sales are going great,” he
said. “Families with two wage
earners are buying them for
second cars.
“A lot of people who are
usually GM and Ford buyers are
coming in because those dealers
don’t have anything comparable
to offer.”
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston
— The next scheduled launch of
the space shuttle Columbia Nov.
11 will begin a flight of firsts,
including the first four-man
crew and the initial journey
through space for three mem
bers of that crew.
Mission Commander Vance
Brand said Tuesday he will be
joined on the flight by co-pilot
Robert Overmyer and mission
specialists Joe Allen and Bill
Lenoir.
It will be the first space flight
for Overmyer, Allen and
Lenoir, all pi whom have been
waiting since the late 1960s.
Brand, 51, flew the Russian-
American Apollo-Soyuz mission
in 1975.
“We’re all thrilled to be next
ip to bat,” Brand told a pre-
flight news conference.
Overmyer, 46, is a Marine
colonel. Allen, 45, is a former
physics researcher at Yale and
the University of Washington.
Lenoir, 43, is a former Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy engineering professor.
Flight plans call for a host of
possible firsts including: a space-
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