Tweaking a person’s genes for sports could, at the outset, be as easy as choosing from a menu. Inside were racing seatbelts, wood-rim steering wheel, full instrumentation — and no back seat, in order to qualify the GT-350 as a «sports car» under SCCA rules. Other GT-350s continued racing and winning in ’66, but they were essentially the cars that had competed the previous year, as no ’66 R-models were built. Unquestioned thoroughbreds, the 1965-66 GT-350s remain some of the hairiest and most memorable American cars ever built — and always will. English soccer fans absolutely see the sport as part of their national identity, Polley says, and crowds will often chant military tunes that harken back to World War II. But it’s the early Bel Airs that Chevy fans remember most today, especially the pioneering 1950-1952 models with their jaunty looks and spiffy interiors. Mechanicals were stock 1950 Chevrolet, but that year’s new Powerglide automatic surely lifted sales as much as the Bel Air’s fresh, sporty looks.
Yadav looks to flick it but misses. The majority of Ferrari’s cars in the early 1950s were competition machines, but Luigi Chinetti, Ferrari distributor for the United States, had been trying to convince Enzo Ferrari to build a road car with a bigger engine — one that would appeal to American buyers. Between 1962 and 1970 he built or contributed to such blindingly fast machines as the awesome Cobra 289 and 427, as well as the Sunbeam Tiger and Ford’s mid-engine GT40 and Mark IV competition cars. Sumo-size sporty cars had by then outlived their usefulness at Mercury and elsewhere, and the Marauder — despite its appeal — would never be back, nor even missed. The 1969 Mercury Marauder exemplifies the tradition of big 1960s performance cars that kept similar models in production even when sales had long since tapered off. It was born of Dearborn’s desire to give its new 1965 «ponycar» a solid performance image, and it did precisely that by reigning as national Sports Car Club of America B-production champion for three years in a row (1965-67). Shelby applied a «High-Riser» manifold, big four-barrel carb, hot cam, and free-flow exhaust headers, plus trailing arms to locate a rear axle borrowed from Ford’s big Galaxie to replace the stock, light-duty Falcon assembly.
Two years later, however, the Big M released another big bruiser, this one invoking the hallowed Marauder name. To tackle this, our proposed UCLData dataset consists of both match and individual statistics from Champions League matches played over the past six years. Danisik et al. (2018) applied a Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) NN model (Hochreiter & Schmidhuber, 1997) for match result prediction in a number of different Soccer leagues. In particular, the predictor is tasked with regressing the final score difference between the two teams on the match features. Inferring skill from a series of competitions has a long history of study, both for individuals elo1978rating ; glickman1999parameter and for teams Herbrich2007trueskill ; tarlow2014knowing . This success prompted Chevrolet to apply the Bel Air name to its convertible and top-line sedans for 1953, an arrangement that would persist through 1958. Then came the Impala and, in the mid-Sixties, the even more-luxurious Caprice, which pushed Bel Air down the series hierarchy until it disappeared in the early Seventies, by which time it had become merely the baseline four-door sedan. From the beginning, the 1950, 1951, and 1952 Chevrolet Bel Airs were a success. The 1950, 1951, and 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air featured the new Powerglide automatic transmission — and much more.
Review the specifications of the 1950-1952 Chevrolet Bel Air on the next page. The 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air had chrome-framed side windows among other luxurious features. Its roofline followed the Riviera/Holiday/Coupe de Ville style in having chrome-framed side windows. Mercury’s top-shelf Marquis donated a hidden-headlamp «power dome» front, while a flying buttress roofline with upright «tunneled» backlight were shared with the Ford. Per his philosophy, Carroll made most of the special racing parts available over-the-counter at selected Ford dealers. The original ’65 Shelby GT-350 was probably as close to a street-legal racing car as was ever offered by an American company. For the track, Shelby devised a «GT-350R» with special high-power heads, super-duty suspension, racing tires, aluminum transmission case, stripped interior, and a bumperless fiberglass nose with rudimentary air dam and large central air slot. Though 1969 Marauder starting prices were attractively low at $3,368 for the base version and $4,091 for the X-100, delivered prices broke $5,000 with air and other popular options — only $1,000 or so below the likes of Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, and Oldsmobile Toronado. At the same time he added the stock fastback’s optional fold-down rear seat, returned the battery to the engine compartment from its former trunk location, reverted to heavy-duty Ford shocks-and Navy Blue/Burgandy offered automatic transmission.