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Buick and Oldsmobile leaned toward the concept cars sale of "Little Thunderbirds," cars with bucket seats and floor-mounted shift levers, but little else of a sporting nature. We had engaged Walt Hansgen to drive the Pontiac and Bob Grossman to run his own Ferrari. We ran dozens of acceleration tests on the two cars, plus many, many laps of the Daytona International Raceway's muscle cars tri-oval and road circuit.

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