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- <text id=89TT0484>
- <title>
- Feb. 20, 1989: Business Notes:Auto Rentals
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- AUTO RENTALS
- Fins in the Fast Lane
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Most auto-rental customers want brand-new models with few
- miles on them. But National Car Rental is assembling a fleet for
- motorists who prefer cars with tail fins, gleaming chrome and
- wide whitewalls. At several of National's major outlets in
- Florida and California, the agency has begun offering dozens of
- carefully restored 1950s and '60s autos. Among them:
- Thunderbirds, Buick Roadmasters and even Studebakers.
- </p>
- <p> The classic cars cost a relatively reasonable $50 per day
- and 30 cents per mile, but customers must belong to National's
- frequent-renter program (fee: $50 per year). The agency finds
- that drivers treat the vehicles with tender loving care. Says a
- National spokesman: "The cars often come back waxed and polished
- -- better than when we rented them."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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