With the legacy of these tuner-shop specials as the overachievers of the muscle-car heyday, it made sense for Mr. Rosen to bring his expertise and the Baldwin-Motion name to a venture between Redline Motorsports and DeNooyer Chevrolet of Colonie, N.Y.
In the cars' heyday in 1978, G.M. sold 260,000 Camaros and about 175,000 Firebirds.
With 58,000 Padmini taxis on the streets in the car's mid-1990s heyday — countless others were driven by private citizens — Mumbai had the highest density of one car model of any city in the world, according to A. L. Quadros, general secretary of the Mumbai Taximen's Union.
"It was a powerful, giant-killing racing car in its heyday," he said.
A sporty GT model, with 6-cylinder or V-8 power, offered bucket seats and special trim, while the 1967-69 gavegave the brand another muscle car entry during the heyday of that trend.
I've owned a few as well -- about a dozen, all of them from the 50's and 60's, which I consider the heyday of car design in America.
It is crowned by a bizarre, circular, 14-storey hotel, called the Humboldt, which was built during the dictatorship of Gen. Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the 1950s and has stood empty almost ever since.Pérez Jiménez also had a German company build a cable car that, in its heyday, connected Caracas with the Caribbean coast on the other side of the mountain.
The car industry reached its heyday with an oligopoly.
During their heyday, these cars were among the most desirable of luxury autos; owners included Pope Pius XI, the Aga Khan, William Randolph Hearst and Rudolph Valentino.
Just as in their heyday, the Cars don't do much onstage but play their instruments and sing, relying on the neat construction of their songs (and some busy video backdrops) to provide the show.
His mother was a nurse, his father a car salesman who had his heyday in the 1930's playing trumpet in a series of big bands.
