The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1933, Page 24

NEW BUICK’S WHEELBASE IS LONGER, BODIES ARE LARGER Walve-in-Head Straight Eight ‘Engine Mounted at Five Points in Rubber ‘The series of new Buicks are Songer, wider and more roomy. New sweeping wind streamlines and inte- rior appointments characterize all models. More than four inches have een added to the wheelbase of the 50 series, bringing it to 119 inches. ‘The 60 series has been increased from 118 to 127 inches, the 80 series from 126 to 130 inches and the 90 series from 134 to 138 inches. Front treads have been widened from 57 inches to &9 inches, and rear from 59 to 60% inches, resulting in greater roominess and improved stability. The long, low flowing lines accentuate the in- crease in length. Buicks will be exhibited at the Bis- marck automobile show by Fleck Mo- tor Sales, Inc. A chromium finished V-shaped lower and broader radiator grill, fenders, longer hoods and symmetri- cally flowing lines mark the front view. The backward slope of the ‘windshield, curved roof lines, fender valances and running boards forming ® continuous line, larger doors closing flush with the running board aii tend to emphasize the lowered bodies. In the rear of the bodies curved sheet metal forms a continuous line irom roof to below the frame. The spare tire is equipped with a full metal cover finished in body colors. Attached to the rear bumper is a gravel deflector. Choice of Wheels Either the new Buick steel or wire gre ontional. vew DODGE with FLOATING POWER FREE WHEELING Air Wheels, 116 in. wheelbase And many other Sreat new features ov $595 AND UP. F. 0. 3. FACTORY M. B. Gilman Co. Plymouth and Dodge Distributors Second and Broadway Bismarck, N. Dak. wheel is of artillery type, 17 inches in diameter, with large hubs and short, stocky spokes. The closed body types permit a choice of whipcord, mohair or broad- cloth in harmonizing colors. Size of the passenger compartments is in- creased by the longer wheelbases and wider treads. Front apartments are 1% inches and rear seats 1% inches wider. ‘Window curtains on the new mod- els have their rollers concealed behind the upholstery, with the curtains working through narrow slots. Mech- anism of the dual windshield wiper has also been removed from sight by being enclosed in the header bar. ‘Window and door moldings, the dash panel, the vanities and smoking sets found in the closed models are of walnut grain finish, Two ovals of antique bronze balance the dash panel. The one directly ahead of the steering wheel carries the large di- aled, aviation type instruments. The one at the right contains a package compartment. eight engine is mounted at five points in resilient rubber, in a heavier and more rigid frame. The addition of a second oil ring plus the usual two pressure rings on the pistons is said to reduce oil consumption and add to engine life. To eliminate the long “breaking-in” period, the pistons are jelectro-plated with bearing metal. Automatic devices are designed to make control and operation of the car as perfect as possible without jattention from the driver. The wheels |¢limination of the foot starter pedal he steel is replaced by a push button at the left side of the dash. A touch of the finger automatically engages the starting gears by electro-magnetic attraction and turns the motor. The automatic carburetor heat control replaces the former manual- jOperated device. This maintains the gas mixture at proper temperature for best performance under all driv- ig conditions. Radiator shutters are | eliminated and the water temperature jis controlled by a thermostatic by- pass that cuts the water off from the |radiator and circulates it through the engine until the proper operating temperature is reached. | Clutch Action Softer Another improvement of the auto- matic clutch and syncromesh trans- mission is a pendulum valve control that softens the clutch engagement through the action of car accelera- j tion. Ride control introduced last year by Buick has been made auto- matic. A new inertia type shock |absorber automatically regulates the \spring action to conform to that {type road being traversed. Radiator |fenders and headlamps are mounted {ina unit to eliminate front end weaving. | The 1933 line includes twenty mod- jels. On the 119-inch wheelbase are a | Wwo-passenger business coupe, a two- | Passenger convertible coupe, a sport |coupe with rumble seat, a five-pas- jsenger sedan and five-passenger vic- | toria coupe with built-in trunk. On he 127-inch wheelbase, a sport coupe vith rumble seat, convertible coupe | with rumble seat, five-passenger se- ‘dan, five-passenger victoria coupe | with trunk and a four-door, five-pas- | Senger convertible phaeton. | The 130-inch wheelbase includes a | five-passenger victoria coupe with | trunk, sport coupe with rumble seat, SOUNDS UNBELIEVABLE-sur Irs TRUE there is a big straight 8 in the low price field T IS true that only a big car can knows it, The difficulty has been to fort and luxury features not only at a low price but at low operating costs. This Pontiac Economy Straight 8 is a differ- ent kind of car—a new kind of car in the low Price field. It’s a real automobile—a big car. Yet it doesn’t ask you to sacrifice economy. Rather, it gives you all the big car comfort you’ve wanted for years, with the average operating economy you are getting now. You've wanted just such a car for years— everybody has—and now it’s here—offered you by General Motors. You can be sure of it. There’s nothing tricky about this new give you big car performance and comfort—vou know it, everybody Valve-in-Head Engine j Passenger two-door The valve-in-head Buick straight | With trunk, convertible coupe, sport WORE SPEED AND HORSEPOWER ARE | PONTIAG VIRTUES Seven New Bodies Created by Fisher Are Fitted With No- Draft Ventilation ‘The 77-horsepower Pontiac straight eight, newly-styled and an entirely new motor, is making its debut in the 1933 field of low price cars. It will be shown by Fleck Motor Sales, Inc. at the Bismarck auto {show. The seven new bodies created for Pontiac by Fisher are fitted with the Fisher no-draft vertilation to clim- inate direct drafts and to prevent clouding of windows. The car has a wheel-base of 115 inches and the four-door sedan weighs 3,265 pounds. The other bodies include the standard two- door sedan, standard coupe, five Hy touring sedan coupe and roadster. Wheel tread, both front and rear, is nearly five feet in width. Full balloon tires, 5:50 inch, are mounted on 17-inch wire wheels. Six wheel sets are available on all models at extra cost. Fittings Lavish Interiors of all cars are richly fit- ted and finished. All the instruments are grouped at the left of the dash in a half-oval panel; they include a large AC pointer speedometer, fuel gauge, ammeter and combination oil pressure and temperature gauge. Di- als carrying white figures on black for high visibility are indirectly lighted. The starter is operated by a button at the left of the instrument panel. New improvements include flexible springs of chrome vanadium steel, permanently lubricated and covered, Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers, and rubber cushioning at thirty- | = : ee Shee, cars in the lowest priced field. New Plymouth Six four-door sedan, considered one of the most stylish water “pipe line” that extends entire length of the motor block. thermostat cuts off radiator sation during the warm-up period, while a by-pass permits recirculation of water within the engine to prevent formation of hot or cold spots. Wa- ter passages completely separate the. cylinder barrels down to a point be- low the limit of piston travel. At a road speed of only twenty-five miles per hour the pump circulates twenty gallons of water per minute. The cooling system retains Pontiac’s cross-flow radiator. The radiator has an all-copper core of new design. Mechanical Pump A mechanical AC pump draws the fuel from an 18-gallon tank concealed at the rear. The gasoline is filtered and then metered through a triple venturi downdraft carburetor with an “economy” range up to sixty-five miles per hour. A pneumatic accel- erating pump enriches the vapor mix- ture for the period of several seconds, to provide for fast pick-up. the A seven points throughout the car which separates the rear axle from the springs, the springs from the frame and the frame from the body. The Tubber insulation absorbs road shock and aids also in preserving silence of operation. The big motor block is cushion-mounted on five heavy pads of permanent rubber compound. High Compression Many mechanical advancements distinguish the new straight eight motor. For one thing, it has an al- most “square” ratio of bore to stroke 33/16 inches by 3% inches, calling for extremely short piston travel. The tnotor has a cylinder displacement of 223.4 cubic inches. The patented contours of Pontiac’s GMR cylinder head permit the use of regular grades, of gasoline at a compression of 128 pounds to the square inch. Connect- ing rods and the electro-plated pis- tons, which carry three compression rings and an oil ring, are balanced in production to pius or minus limits of one-half the weight of a copper penny. ‘The cooling system includes a cool convertible coupe with rumble seat, five-passenger sedan and four-door, five-passenger convertible phaeton. On the 138-inch wheelbase chassis are a seven-passenger sedan, seven- Passenger limousine, five-passenger club sedan with trunk, five-passenger victoria colipe with deck and a five- Passenger sedan. STRAIGHT H WHEELBASE OUNDS OF WEIGHT MILES PER HC RSEPOWER 8 that it actually. and legitimately takes its get these com- ful new Fisher wanted—a Pontiac—the Economy Straight 8, Pontiac. It’s just the same sure, safe, fast Straight 8 type of engine design that has won every race at Indianapolis for the past 10 gears. Due to fine engineering and splendid to so build this big Pontiac Economy Straight GENER *Curb weight of the ¢-door Sedan AL Ventilation (individually-controll greatest safety, comfort and health feature since the closed body was first developed. This year, get the kind of car you’ve always the econom ONTIAC: ey MOTOR 8 place not only as a car of low price but as @ car of low operating costs as well. Beauty? Look at it. Performance? Take it out on the road and try a brush with any car—not only those in Pontiac’s price class. Comfort? It’s got the size and weight you have to have for comfort, and it’s got beauti- bodies with Fisher No-Draft j—the Tune in on the Pontiac Radio TRAIGH $ VALUE FLECK MOTOR ASLES, Inc.’ if ‘$00 West Broadway + Bismarck, N. Dak. ‘hiteed the Blamarck Auto end Style Show April 7-8— Also Merchants’ Trade Week ‘ NEW PLYMOUTH Six AGAIN SETTING PACE Floating Power Motor Mount- ings Among New Features Introduced in Car The new Plymouth Six, which will be shown at the Bismarck automobile show next week-end, again has set the pace in the lowest price field, ac- cording to the M. B. Gilman com- pany, local distributor. Almost two years ago when the first Floating Power Plymouth car was introduced, it brought to buyers in this price field new features. Among these were, of course, Floating Power motor mountings, the first fundamental improvement in motor cars since the closed body. Equally important was the full-size, roomy and comfortable body with smart, racy lines. Free wheeling, double drop frame and easy-shift silent sec- ond transmission were just a few of the features which the first Floating Power Plymouth introduced to low priced cars. Just as this car set the pace— which was followed in swifter fashion by the new, finer Plymouth of 1932— so is the new Plymouth Six outstand- ing among 1933 low priced motor cars. Entirely new from bumper to bumper and from top to tires, the new Six has deep sloping radiator; wide front and rear fenders con- structed to conceal the chassis; a similarly concealed gasoline tank and sloping hood louvres out the lines of windshield and radiator. Four body styles are being dis- played. They include: business coupe, rumble seat coupe, four-door sedan, and convertible coupe. Has 70 Horsepower The new Plymouth Six offers for the first time, a six-cylinder Floating Power engine in the lowest price field. ‘The new engine is mounted in rubber in two points and has a bore of 3% inches and a stroke of 4% inches with total displacement of 189.8 cubic inches, developing 70 brake horse- Powe! r at 3,600 revolutions per min- ute. A downdraft carburetor of Chrysler Motors’ design is largely responsible for the very favorable ratio between power output and piston displace- taent as well as the fuel economy. ‘The latest perfected type combina- tion air cleaner and intake silencer assures further perfection of engine Performance. An automatic thermal Control has been built into the mani- |” fold. Fuel is supplied to the carburetor by a diaphragm type fuel pump. An even fuel pressure, regardless of throttle opening, is maintained by an air dome on the fuel Pump. Intake valves are of chrome nickel steel and exhaust valves of heat re- sisting silchrome. To overcome the destructive heat of the exhaust flame, special exhaust valve seats of a tungsten-chrome alloy have been in- serted in the cylinder block. Particular care has been exercised in grinding the camshaft. Cam con- vue Ae BaD that the valves are Tal and lowered with Perceptible noise. vicilainws i a alt two boring and two ream! tions, followed by Large water jackets final aH eT lal Hi rile i i it th i F E EE : fe HH pounds pressure through drilled chan- nels in the cylinder block leading from a positive gear pump, to all crankshaft, camshaft, camshafi and connecting rod bearings. Spray from metered holes and from the ends of the connecting rods thoroughly lubri- cates the cylinder walls, pistons, pins and valve mechanism, Harmful gases, the natural product of combustion, are removed by a stream of fresh, clean air which en- ters at the oil filler pipe and is drawn through the outlet pipe on the right rear side of the block. The floating Power engine mount- ings differ slightly in design but not in principle. Two-point suspension with the front mounting raised to balance the weight of the power plant is continued in the new Plymouth Six. The rear mounting is located in the same relation to the front mounting as heretofore. The torque spring, however, has been by two rubber insulators which: ab- sorb the shock imposed when the engine is accelerated suddenly . Visualize a Circle ‘This new design may be better understood if a circle is visualized. A block of rubber is across a Portion of the lower part of the circle. A smaller block of rubber is placed in the upper part of the circle on the left side and a similar block on the right side. Thus, the engine may rock to the right or left but is re- stricted by the upper blocks. Rubber only is used when applying Floating Power and because of the absence of ny metallic connection between the Power plant and the frame through a torque spring or otherwise, still greater smoothness and complete ab- sence of vibration is obtained. DANGER STATES It is reported that out of the 32,- 000,000 licensed automobile drivers in the United States, 22,000,000 are in states which do not require driver ex- eminations, AND MORE TO COME! The automobile is the heaviest tax- ed non-luxury article in the country, the Automobile Club of Southern California reports. Sixteen different forms of taxes are levied on it in the United States. PLENTY CHEAP The flight of Captain James A. Mollison from England to North America recently cost him only $65 in oil and gasoline. Makes IT A STYLE SHOW THE NEW SIX * 4745.4 « Follow the Crowd to our Showroom A SHORT time ago, the new Plymouth Six was only a rumor. Today it’s getting more “talk” than any other car in town. Te’s a huge success. ~_ And no wonder! It not only has that “large car look” . . . not only a great new six cylinder engine . . . not only has Hydraulic Brakes... not only has Safety- Steel bodies ...’. but is the only car in the low-priced. field with the greatest en- finesting wad of the times—FLOAT- i E Folks are buying this new Plymouth Sixt With all those fascinating new features +. and the fascinating new price—they just can’t help it! Four Door Sedan delivers in Bismarck for $695.00 complete with Spare Tire, Tube, Cover, Bumpers, Floating Power, Hydraulic Brakes, Automatic Clutch Control, Double Drop Box Type X Frame, Centrifuse Brake Drums, Free Wheeling, Oil and Air Filters, Full Pressure Lubrication, Safety Steel Body, Valve Seat Inserts, Self-Oiling Springs, Silent : Second and Easy Shift, Sheet Metal Rust-Proofed, 4-Bearing Crank Shaft, Independent Hand Brake and many other features not found in other low cost cars. Corwin-Churchill Motors, Inc. Established 1914 122 Main Bismarck, N. D. Chrysler-Plymouth distributors for Western Dakota and Eastern Montana. Attend the Bismarck Auto and Style Show April 7-8— Also Merchants’ Trade Week - { Tribune Want Ads Bring Results Sine Okdsmobile THE NEW EIGHT o S845 7 « ing Fisher No Draft Ventilation, individually controlled, +++ They have unusual siso and roominess. . . . Every. : wholly new conception of what a thing a modern-car should have—plus style ip, U motor car should look like. ; : : You'll see nothing like . : . And remember—style is worth money! For the . : +> them for a Jong time to come ; ; ; because the new Olds- _longee car looks modern, the longer it holds its I . mobiles are the new style. :: : Of course, they have more “own-and ite value... . Any show, plus Oldsmobile, F than style, « 4 Thay have Oliqmobie's traditional is bound to be a Styl Show... « And to prove that dependability spectacular performance. . . - emartness not be expensive, Oldsmobile has i have all the new mechanical ad ae lowered prices on both Six and Eight—§130 to $145, FLECK MOTOR SALES, Inc. __| , 100 WEST BROADWAY BISMARCK, N. D. a Attend the Bismarck Auto and Style Show April 7-8— Also Merchants’ Trade Week “sf THR AUTOMOBILE SHOW AND‘ YouR DEAL