Pahrump Valley Gazette, Thursday, Jul? 2.1, 1997 23
Community News
A little silver dune flyer
With a burst of reflected light and the roar of a tightly another side of the mountain) a much different sort of car this tough souled beautiful little flyer here in the U.S. With
wound engine, the little silver flyer tops a dune and dances huddles in a mass of parked vans and trailers, its plastic styling swoops and its 1959 fins adorning the
over the sand to come to an alert halt in front of the camera. No proud beauty this plain and unattractive mechanical rear, the little flyer may not grab the American heart.
A car it is, a very new car, a car never before seen on this mongrel. Looking somewhat like a faded white laundry If however you heart yearns after things automotive,
continent, truck, this ugly automotive duckling sets awkwardly be- and you know that eternal happiness can be found by
Midsummer July heat at the south end of Death Valley side it's attendants. Like the ugly duckling of fairy tale purchasing"justtherightcar." Keep your eyes open for the
does not deter the ambitious American and Japanese film lore, this plain blocky auto has a close relationship to the little silver flyer with the heart of a corvette. The name
crew from toiling to produce a little silver flyer humming might even be evolution, but as with all Japanese items
television commercial to in- ' over the dunes on the other automotive, they're going to have to move that steering
ket of Japan. tr°duce a new Sp°rts Utility In The Therm°meter's Shad°w i I side °f the m°untain" , I J' ,m.m, [ qu'Iv v' I "qlll quml wheel t° the P'r°per side f°r driving in America" !
Vehicle to the domestic mar- by Mike Dougherty In fact, this miserable ....
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costume. This forlorn look-
going into too complete detail about the new sporty entry il ing little rig is the test vehicle [ WE LL= I LL NgLC
into the automotive market, but it sure is a pretty little for the mechanical heart of
fellow, the new car being so proudly photographed in all of its
Not to put too fine a point on it, a large crew has been automotively cosmetic glory. A French racing team is
working all this week at the Dumont Sand Dunes to conducting thekillerhot weather Death Valley testing and
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complete the automotive commercial. The desert has been they show no mercy.
at its summer warmest and the crews sweltering in the No swoopy designer front end graces this mechanical
southern end of Death Valley have been experiencing the test bed. There are no modem space age fins adorning the
best the desert has to offer in interesting summer tempera- rear of this plain as mud motor car. No black privacy glass Wll Drilling ..gystems
tures, darkly reflects from the shining silver paint.
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down to a mere eight pounds, does not go unpunished.
In skilled hands, the little flyer skims over the dunes and Axels break, U joints fail. The transmission overheats. Trenching for Power and Pad...._.s
eachtimeitstopsanenthusiasticcrewofhandlersblowthe ThisisatestandthetestwiUbeconducteduntilfailure.But [nstallingWaterLinesirom MobfleHome
dust from the shining finish and polish the mirrored perfec- oh my, the car does fly. The ugly little beast hurls itself Well to Home Garage
tion of the new paint. This auto gets as much grooming as again and again across the rocky desert floor. Not athought Driveways
an aspiring actress entering the world of glamor, is given to the destructive power of the blowing sand and
A camera-equipped dune buggy snarls along beside the 120 degree heat. The engine screams a screeching wail of Lot Cleared
little flyer. A crew of Japanese film makers hang from the high speed defiance and the car again and again plunges
buggy directing the "just so" filming of the speeding SUV. into near destruction on the
Gyro controlled Steady Cams ease the jiggle of the speed- burning sands of the sum-
ing cars and the resulting film shows the glamorous silver mer desert. ......... : , , --- , - j ............
dune flyer skimming the dunes with hardly a ripple of Two cars, one automo-
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Around Amargosa with Andrea
Following isacalendarofeventsforthisweek: From Pahrump to Bishop
Tuesday: Senior Tap Dancing, 9-11 a.m. Community Center
Wednesday: Bingo, 7 p.m. Community Center
JULY
July 26: Sand Drags, 7 p.m., Amargosa Race Track has you
July 27: Summer Reading Program, 3-5 p.m., Community Center
July 29: Cemetery Board meeting., 1 p.m., Community Center
July 31: Town Board meeting, 6 p.m., Community Center
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