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To clean paint brushes use a few drops of shampoo and massage it through the bristles, then rinse well. Or just treat yourself to fresh paint in a cool hue plus some new fittings and accents. Both Fairlane series listed two- and four-door Victorias, plus thin-pillar equivalents that looked like hardtops with windows up. This was the Fairlane Crown Victoria, a hardtop-style two-door sedan with a bright metal roof band wrapped up and over from steeply angled B-posts. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the band produced a ‘House Party’ event fortnightly in place of the live shows which they would’ve performed if the pandemic had not happened. 2. Place the filter in and keep it submerged for at least 10 minutes. Giant sea scorpions were some of the fiercest creatures on Earth, devouring large fish — as well as one another. The fish benefit by having parasites removed from them, and the shrimp gain the nutritional value of the parasites. But though Plymouth arguably won the styling stakes with its finned “Forward Look,” 1957 was a great Ford year. Ford’s ’57 styling was particularly simple for the period: a blunt face with clean, full-width rectangular grille; tasteful side moldings; and tiny tailfins.

Model-year ’52 introduced a clean, new, square-rigged Ford with a one-piece windshield, simple grille, small round tail-lamps, and an “air scoop” motif on the lower rear flanks. Doing more with less, Ford introduced a new 215.3-cid overhead-valve six with 101 horsepower as standard for Mainline/Customline. If that happens two or more times a week on a regular basis, you could be on your way to permanent hearing damage. Caffeine is extracted in the same way as with methylene chloride processing, but ethyl acetate is the solvent. Waste used for feedstock undergoes the same process as other synfuel feedstocks. Its initial 239 cid was the same as flathead displacement, but the ohv had different “oversquare” cylinder dimensions. The venerable flathead V-8 was honorably retired for 1954 in favor of a new overhead-valve “Y-block” V-8 (so-called because of its frontal appearance in cross-section). The flathead V-8 was tweaked to 110 horsepower. A new 312-cid “Thunderbird” unit with 215/225 horsepower was ­optional across the board, and a midrange 292-cid V-8 offered 200 horsepower. A full steel-roof model was also offered for $70 less than the “bubble-topper”; predictably, it sold much better: 33,000-plus to just 1999. The totals were 9209 and just 603 for ’56, after which the Crown Vic was dumped.

Chevrolet sold over 1.1 million, but spent much more money to do so. For 1958, Ford countered all-new passenger Chevys and modestly restyled Plymouths with a glittery facelift featuring quad headlamps and taillamps, a massive bumper/grille a la ’58 Thunderbird, and more anodized aluminum trim. More importantly, it was new against Chevy’s second facelift in two years. Fossil-fuel-fired power plants, however, produce much more than electricity. So: a ratcheting set of requirements for utilities that will result, by 2045, in a carbon-free electricity system in Washington. And even the most ambitious plans from the U.S Department of Energy aim to supply just 6 percent of the nation’s electricity from wind by the year 2020. So, it is worth the risks? With the Korean conflict ended, Ford Division built 1.2 million cars to edge Chevrolet for the model year (Chevy consoled itself with calendar-year supremacy), but only by dumping cars on dealers in a production “blitz” so they could sell for “less than cost.” Ironically, Chevrolet wasn’t much affected by this onslaught, but Studebaker, American Motors, and Kaiser-Willys were, because they couldn’t afford to discount as much. But Ford as a whole did splendidly in banner 1955, shattering its postwar record of 1953 by building nearly 1.5 million cars.

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