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Show Car Comfort Is Aim of Americans Americans cheerfully s p e n o about two-billion dollars a yeai to give their cars "the comfort of home," says Carol Lane, the-noted the-noted feminine authority on car comfort. , Today's passenger car can be converted into a home-on-wheels with every convenience except indoor in-door plumbing, she points out. Miss Lane covers 50,000 miles a year as women's travel director direc-tor of an oil company, ferreting out ideas and testing gadgets that add to the family's driving enjoyment. en-joyment. Without leaving the driver's seat, the motorist c n reach into . a portable refrigerator for a cold snack, tuck baby into an inflatable inflat-able crib, write memos on a desk attached to the steering column, or make a phone call. There are collapsible pots, cutlery, stoves, tables and chairs that nestle compactly com-pactly in the trunk. Or an " expandable ex-pandable "bedroom" for three that perches securely on the car roof, to mention a few of the conveniences con-veniences available. The average new car owner spends about $230 on such standard stand-ard motoring comforts as a radio, heater, seat-covers, automatic window-washer and extra mirrors, mir-rors, Miss Lane says. Owners of older cars invest from $50 to $100 on a variety of gadgets ranging from a plug-in baby bottle warmer warm-er to a heated steering wheel for winter-haters. - And in some states, where it's legal, the motoring family can enjoy TV in their cars too! |