Cars: New Wheels

One sleek item in the Sixth International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, was turned back by its original purchaser because it gave him cold feet. A politician had ordered the grey, four-passenger Fiat 2300 coupe as last year's Christmas present to his wife, then canceled the order when he remembered the number of voters in Detroit.

Water While It Rolls. But for those not so politically sensitive, there were plenty of other foreign models, as well as the "1962½" models from Detroit. Sports cars, once a European specialty, are...

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