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L and M Auto Supply of North Hollywood, California, expands its Japanese import auto-parts lines expecting continued Japanese import-market domination. It stocks 5,000 items and buys its Japanese parts from SBH-Lazorlite, its European parts from five importer-distributors.

Description of various modes of auto-parts-warehouse theft and corrective measures used by one distributor: closed-circuit TV, silent burglar-alarms, polygraph tests, employee badges, bricks on windows, use & supervision of security personnel, bonding, and location of employee lockers outside warehouse-office area.

West Sacramento's Ram Auto Parts, one of best laid-out traditional jobbers on West Coast, competes with mass merchandisers and discount stores in grandness of scale: 3,000-square-foot, railing-sectioned self-help showroom; long counter behind for wholesale and retail customers; clean, 2,000-square-foot machine shop visible through picture-windows; 10,000-square-foot warehouse with $500,000 worth of parts, tools, & accessories; roomy offices flanked by conference room and employee lunchroom; unifying computer system.

Focuses on the plight of the Plymouth automobile from Chrysler Corp. Popularity of Plymouth in the 1950 and 1960; Innovations to the Plymouth sedan; Treatment accorded to the automobile by Chrysler. INSET: DRIVING AROUND WITH WALT WORON IN THE CHRYSLER..., by Walt....