ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SMITTEN; Swimming with the Shark.(News)(the 1961 Mako Shark)
AutoWeek, July, 2003 by Wilson, Kevin A.
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Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON Being invited to drive the original Mako Shark concept car was like being invited to dance with Ursula Andress-an offer to fulfill an adolescent fantasy. Like the Dr. No Bond girl Ursula, the Mako's presence is more memory than reality and all but unknown among youngsters.
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But believe us, kids: For Detroit-bred car buffs of an age, the Mako Shark was all that. It featured in our preteen bedrooms on posters and in clumsily assembled plastic model kits. It was sketched on blue-lined notebook paper when we were supposed to be reading social studies texts and ...
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