L. Doctorow's new novel, "Homer and Langely, " offers fictional insight into the reclusive Collyer brothers, found dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1947 amid 130 tons of trash, including 14 pianos, 25, 000 books, decades worth of newspapers and the chassis of a Model T Ford.

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The original station wagons were literally that wagon bodies built on a Ford Model T chassis used to transport people and luggage from a train station.

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Also noteworthy was the new P2 chassis Alienware employed for this model, which improves on older cases both aesthetically -- it sports a glossier paint job and more configurable lights to play with -- as well as functionally, with the shorter-but-deeper design intended to support extra-long graphics cards.

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After that it wants to use the site to make only a specialist version of the model called "a chassis cab vehicle".

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SUVs and the like, will be capable of handling three basic platforms (the chassis and underpinning of a vehicle) and nine different model variations built on them.

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