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Car and Driver October 1975 Chevette Cosworth Vega Ford GM AMC.

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CAR AND DRIVER OCTOBER 1975 · VOLUME 21 NUMBER 4

SPECIAL SECTION: DETROIT 1976

CHEVETTE: IT REALLY IS ABOUT TIME what GM thinks it's doing-by Brock Yates

40 INSIDE CHEVY'S NEW "FOREIGN" CAR the concept is imported, but the hardware is all

American-by Patrick Bedard

42 THE SPIRIT OF '76 General Motors, Ford and AMC give notice that they're ready

for a banner year-by Don Sherman

SCANDAL

50 CHALLENGE IV your last chance for bargain-price humiliation

COMPETITION

52 ANYTHING MONACO CAN DO, LONG BEACH CAN DO BETTER, RIGHT? how to get

the Grand Prix circus to visit your town-by Leon Mandel

FEATURES

56 ROADSIDE JUSTICE the last American speed trap-by William Jeanes

72 COSWORTH VEGA: A STAR IS FINALLY BORN all it took was five years and a couple of

million dollars-by Don Sherman

SPORT

97 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MAKES c'est la guerre

100 FORMULA 5000 Broadley's unbeatable beast

102 USAC DIRT CHAMPIONSHIP rule to recovery

104 TURTLE RACING the old shell game

COLUMNS

16 BROCK YATES if big-league racing gets any more exciting....

18 PATRICK BEDARD why I might not win Challenge IV

24 JEAN SHEPHERD the day Proust met the Tailgater-and survived

28 WARREN WEITH what it costs to build a car

DEPARTMENTS

INSIDE CAR AND DRIVER at long last. Detroit gets serious about small cars

LETTERS who needs fairness when we've got justice?

EDITORÍAL the end of the wine

80 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

85 FOR YOUR INFORMATION Datsun 140-A, sizing up synthetic oil and Peugeot 604

94 REVIEWS a novel that'll make it over the long haul, why Kaiser-Frazer deserved to fail, Arabs

buying up General Motors and Packard nostalgia