At the very beginning of General Motors, the divisions competed against each other, launching rival products in each other's markets, stealing sales and confusing customers. Under the iron rule of President Alfred P. Sloan, inter-divisional rivalry was all but eliminated.

This is Lonnie Plank's 1970 1/2 Ford Falcon. When he bought this car just over 2 years ago, it was sold to him as a 1970 Torino. It was almost a year later, with the help of the Ford company, that the cars true identity was revealed.

Pre-ignition means that the mixture is set on fire before the spark occurs, being ignited by a red hot spot in the combustion chamber such as an incandescent particle of carbon; a thin piece of protruding metal; an overheated spark plug, or a bight red hot exhaust valve. The result is reduction of power and overheating

At the dawn of the 1960's, Kennedy, the new President-elect, spoke of a "new frontier." He was talking of new age of post-war prosperity and specifically, America's quest for reaching the Moon. For the big three, the new frontier was one of technical and marketing innovations. Combining the two became