Medford mail tribune., October 21, 1962, Image 36

Come with Me in My '83
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Winegard Colortron with electronic
power pack extends reception dis
tance, gives much sharper pictures.
No matter how expensive your TV set, its per
formance depends on the sensitivity of your
antenna. This is specially true lor color.
Designed for color, the new Colortron an
tenna is far more sensitive than ordinary
antennas. In fact, the Colortron antenna is so
good that it is the only outdoor antenna avail
able with a written guarantee of satisfaction
There are two reasons Colortron outper
forms other antennas. First, a patented
Electro-Lens director system intercepts more
TV signals . . . rejects interference. Second,
signals are greatly amplified by a built-in elec
. Ironic power pack with two RCA nuvistors.
The effect on your reception is this: Often
you can pull-in stations ordinary antennas
can't reach. Pictures become sharper . . .
brighter. You can even operate as many as
4 sets simultaneously.
Dependability? Your Colortron is built to
last. Gold Anodued: can't rust or dull for
years of powerful performance.
Colortrons are available in 4 models, from
J?4.95. Electronic power pack $39.95. There's
a model lust right lor you . . . Guaranteed,
too. Get the lull story. Ask your TV service- i
man or send coupon.
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IllUSTtATION IV KOtEtT F. ANDREWS
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In artist's conception of the "future car features a sleek
fitting body skin, with door openers and windows flush with
skin; low body height, stained (not painted) finish, wrap
around pneumatic bumper, sliding doors, and skidproof tires.
A popular auto writer peers into the future and
sees small, sleek cars powered by exotic new engines
By KEN PURDY
My ntatt il TV station it . mita away. $
THE YEAR 1983 will be upon us too soon to
bring us the atomic-powered automobile
if, indeed, any such device ever comes to pass.
Still, some strange and wonderful motorcars
will be running on the roads 20 years from now.
Over all, we can be sure that 1983'a cars will be of me
dium size, despite the fact that today's trend is toward big
ness again. Unless the peoples of the Western world are
willing to lay solid sheets of asphalt or concrete over their
countries, they must give thought to increasing popula
tions, increasing wealth and leisure, and the stream of
automobiles that these things invariably bring with them.
Consider, for example, that England, which has more miles
of road per capita than any other country in the world, is
steadily running out of it because 3,000 cars are added to
the load every day!
Medium then, or compact, cars for '83 will "fit" our
crowded roads, and they'll be smoother and sleeker in con
figuration than the l!)63s. Perhaps the skin of the car will
wrap alt the way around it to make a completely aerody
namic package without even the running gear underneath
the car exposed. In such a design it would be logical to do
away with such relies of the horse-drawn coach as exterior
door handles and window sills. Door openers and windows
would be flush with the skin. This would remove one of the
sources of annoying wind roar.
In 1983, it's probable that only special Jeep-like devices
will run off-pavement, and roadways will be smooth and
even. Cars can be really low then, like today's European
grand-prix race cars, so close to the ground that the front
end almost touches the rond under heavy braking, the rear
end almost touches under heavy acceleration.
The body metal used probably will not be painted. It will
be anodized or stained, so that the finish, never polished,
will last the life of the car and then some. To clean the
car, it will be quite practical to use an electronic system
that will repel dust particles.
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Engines have been diminishing in size and increasing in
power output since steam was first harnessed. Viewed over
a long period, the change is astonishing: today a strong
10-year-old would have no trouble lifting an engine that
produces as much horsepower as was put out by a giant
industrial engine of 100 years ago.
Smaller, lighter engines will make more room for the
car's useful load: people, occasionally their luggage, and
the inclusion of useful furniture. I imagine that tele
vision will be an optional extra in most 1983 automobiles.
Rear-seat television offers no problem, and front-seat use
may be legal, as it is in many states now, if the set is so
tied in with the ignition that it can't be turned on with
the engine running.
I think it's a certainty that 1983 will see tape recorders
six inches square that will play for three or four hours, and
I imagine thousands of automobiles will have them. Quick
and flameless methods of heating and the disposal of waste
by vaporization into the atmosphere will make eating in
the automobile far more common in 20 years.
THE full wrap-around bumper, unobtrusive, perhaps
pneumatic, may be a 1983 standard fitting, and I suspect
there will be luggage compartments at both ends of the
automobile. Because of the smaller over-all size of the auto
mobile, their combined capacity will probably just about
equal that of one of the trunks in today's cars.
Sliding doors may be common, too. Anyone who has ever
tried to get into a car parked tightly near another and
that's everyone will appreciate how much handier slid
ing doors are compared with the swinging type that we
have inherited from stagecoaches.
I think the "greenhouse" tendency of modern cars is de
plorable in its deprivation of privacy, but for all of me it
may well flourish, and a sedan body made of clear plastic
from the waistline up probably would not startle a 1983
shopper. This already has been done in custom bodies.
The flyable automobile (or roadable airplane) is an old
dream, and one that has been more or less realized a num-
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