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Along with more-streamlined styling, 1934 brought new “Knee-Action” independent front suspension (IFS) to Master models, Bill Knudsen’s last major decision before leaving Chevy in October 1933. According to writer Karl Ludvigsen, engineer Maurice Olley tried to discourage Knudsen from using it, saying there weren’t enough centerless grinding machines in America to produce all the coil springs. To follow the Stovebolt, division general manager William “Big Bill” Knudsen and GM design director Harley Earl cooked up an elegant line of Cadillac-style cars for 1929-32. The 1930-31 line comprised a single series offering roadsters for two or four passengers, a phaeton, three coupes, and two sedans. Model-year production soared from some 577,000 to nearly 765,000 as Chevrolet bested Ford by over 220,000 cars. Despite that, Chevy regained production supremacy for model-year ’38, and until the ’90s, at least, rarely surrendered it to Dearborn. A new top-line Special DeLuxe series had all these plus Chevy’s first true convertible coupe, which was quite successful (nearly 12,000 model-year sales).
Master 85s were dropped, but Special DeLuxe added a sleek Fleetline four-door sedan at midyear. Master DeLuxe added an inch of wheelbase to suit sleeker new bodies with Vee’d windshield, streamlined fenders, and a raked-back radiator with cap concealed beneath the hood, then an innovation. Master tacked on the “DeLuxe” handle for ’35, and Standards became Masters for 1937-39. The ’33s, with their skirted fenders and graceful lines, were perhaps the most-attractive Chevrolets of the decade. Modernization continued for 1936 as Chevrolet adopted still-rounder styling of the streamlined school, highlighted by die-cast “waterfall” grilles, steel-spoke wheels (wires remained optional), and sleeker fenders. It was a big success, outflanking Ford’s Model T with more attractive styling and more features. The gap widened to more than 300,000 for 1941 as Chevrolet scored its first million-car model year. Production outpaced Ford’s each year in 1931-33, bottoming to 313,000 units for ’32, but recovering to 486,000 for ’33. Sales were underwhelming: about 133,000 in a record Detroit year.
After four years of debate, the Football Association finally permitted professionalism on 20 July 1885. Before that date many clubs made payments to “professional” players to boost the competitiveness of their teams, breaking FA rules and arousing the contempt of those clubs abiding by the laws of the amateur Football Association code. During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, the 46-year-old “Breaking News in Yuba County 2021 Film Bad” star shared that he and his family have left Los Angeles and are now living in Paris. Noire is an ominous, mature crime game for adults set in 1940s-era Los Angeles that’s designed to play like an interactive movie. Nothing says Hollywood quite like the dramatic music that introduces the Universal and 20th Century Fox films. Cops, robbers, prison escapes and plastic surgery — it could be a tale lifted from a Hollywood movie. The starting price of $33,000 for a 2016 model is considerably more than the Mustang, but the Camaro is just as durable and trustworthy as the Mustang, and it has a more powerful engine with either a V6 or V8 under the hood. Meanwhile, Chevy contemplated a smaller companion model evolved under a program called “Cadet.” Though different configurations were considered, the final prototype was an orthodox four-door sedan with smooth “bathtub” styling, 108-inch wheelbase, and a scaled-down Stovebolt Six.
The Stovebolt was engineered by Ormond E. Hunt from an earlier design by Henry M. Crane that had evolved into the 1926 Pontiac engine. With various improvements, this solid, overhead-valve engine would remain Chevrolet’s only powerplant for nearly three decades. The flyby increased New Horizons’ speed by 4 km/s (14,000 km/h; 9,000 mph), accelerating the probe to a velocity of 23 km/s (83,000 km/h; 51,000 mph) relative to the Sun and shortening its voyage to Pluto by three years. It also gained nearly “square” cylinder dimensions as well as four (versus three) main bearings. The album also includes guest appearances from Lacey Sturm (formerly of Flyleaf), Michael Barnes of Red, Adam Gontier of Saint Asonia and Three Days Grace, and Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath. Cut the holes a little bigger if you intend for the bird to perch itself on the edge of the hole and not on an added perch rod. Again, cut the color with white paint to make a tint, and you can enjoy the hue without closing yourself in. Dreystadt also encouraged a forceful engineering program that would ultimately breathe new life into a make that had acquired a respectable but stodgy image.