Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1923, Page 61

The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magasine for Cur Owners. / EDITED ‘The average woman maintains she, cen drive as well as the © mam, We'll say so. HBut, thei nething to brag Fifty Miles an Hour. miles an hour—speed limit. Soynds fa ul, doesn't it? But is it? Even six or seven years #go many people declared that any speed in excess of twenty was fool- hardy. These same people now glide along our concrete highways at forty miles per and think nothing of it. Give them wnother five Years at the wheel—then what? 3 n u wonderful age. on why we should : to drive ninety ded we can do Lac of vibration d greatly hmproved nbined to make higher e with far less effort 1d much m. safety than the “foal- " twenty-five of ten or fifteen ¥ifty miles 11 with o not be sacri- ts are not mak- the average the improved that they are walting fo < 1 wdoption of four-wheel hrakes in America. Our Present brakes ave not adequate for They are saisfactory s per hour, but not for | With the aduption of in Amer e t i1 good condition speed {3 convio wheel bra notion of w. il han-lied and The tendency in tly upward. Four- will Scrap our previous excessive” speed ! No automobile Ix any safer than the man who operates it Ask the Man Behind. The puth behind your car is not the clo k you imagine it to he. In v wake that ca g of troub expens= vou are going er or later. behind you can note ind wheels of yoyr ca 1 the stiff sprin es the smo| dition w s flat tir The man he from vour ex re or an engine that ! n to pump eil. He is the Ges vour habit of spin- els when you let in the sliding them when you the lrakes. At night he is man who notices the sparks ng from the e on of a carbon he is the party burning bLrakes. M Foster, dud and others may be t folks to go te for advice, Woowant to know what" wrong with yvour car and your driv- ing ask the man who has heen driv- ng in your wake. He knows! clut the motor. o smelis the : The 0ld Mechanic Says: i Motordom is about due for a new © of thought on tires. They've got| 11l werked up over the fdea of | v tires inflated to the full pres- we've given the fair trial, but still havel| ctures and blowouts I'm tempted ure the idea with a little ex- | es up to the! because | 1 figure | eral sets of tires, 3 rse, 1 daon’t waste ruhbber by goin' around; With them half flat. Though 1 seldom | kept u set of front vords at ewer forty-five pounds—and ran ‘em at thirty most of the time—T kept both | of them on the car for 17.000 miles. | ©inly had one th ‘em in; all that time. ¥pares. and h another thousand wheel “This ia pre there is no ad up to i ¥ k out all the fanc pavements to ride over. But the real | i in my argument came the other | ¥ when I drove two miles with a | at tirc without knowing it. The roads were covercd with chopped jee | and full of holes. The car rode hard, | but I thought 1t was the nuit of the | road. When T looked ave 1 thought the wall to pieces. hut taken &0 ysed didn’t break w 1 had alwas flated perh cooler in he cing flexed that e put t ps they would run a bit weather, but 1 would | The Seven-Pasenger Sedan $4900 F. O: B. Detroit Ten Body Types entered the carburetor BY WILLIAM ULLMAN have had te throw this ene away after drivin’ it such a distance flat. walls weuld have they would have been so stiff. “The melp peint to remember is to do ene thing ar the other. Don't run them with a lower pressure one week and then suddenly decide to pump them to the limit. A tire that is pump up hard will run long if you don't mind being Jolted and if you don't forget ta stop the moment yoy have a puneture. Ylunnlng ‘em with less air seems-ta produce just as good results with far Jess trouble.” Did You Know— That 80 per cent of the carbon found deposited on the eylinder walls and pistons® of engines is sand or dust which has heen drawn into the engine along with'the air? N ten hours at a car speed of lh}".‘"fi\’u miles an hour a n\glnr r consumes nearly twice its own weight of alr. The amount of dust which is suspended in the air, of course, va- rles with road and cl ic condl- tious, but if only one n of dust th each cu- bic foot of air approximately a pound of dust per hour would pass through the oylinders of a car weighing 2.5 pounds. This expla known makes of “'air clegners,” devices which reh the dyst particles from the air fore it i& admitted to the carbure Any moterist who has noted how much dirt gets past the pistons and lodges in the bottam of the 3 after a car has been rup a el B B The | cracked because | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 18, 1923—PART 3. appreciate the importance of this new trend in engine design, This Is Not G Guessing. zafe In saying for the conijng auto- mobile scason that: The |ast $900 saved up for the new car will he the hardest. Beats will by lower When tires aye 3t Prices will be Iigher, It they don't stay where they afe or go lower, luggage compariments, and guuranteed not to leak ng \n mot ellow how to way you shoulds As They Su;:: to Be Trafm op—A person who stands in the center of a busy Intersection try- ing net to get run over. Sperd Trap—An improvemept “Get-Rich-Qulck-Wallingford.” on debating society, Warning Signs—Highw tions to be read by mote have stopped to picnle. Gasoline—The joker in the automo- decora. sts who ‘Book—A handy device for 0 must pay for their own mo- toring. | When the Cas Rocks. When a car seems to rock a little {after it has stopped it simply means | that the serv band the, propelior rear whe t instead of at the ome kes in this position: a method for the servie rocking after the car h s simply the result of “play or hack-lash in the pinfon and diff ential gears method of bra is to simplify the b are and adjusiment hraking effect on l"rulnheciex being In order, ons feels Speedy roadsters will have larger well padded & is to ive the Service Station—>Meeting place for a | brake operates on a | d to the forward end of | cars have their The idea of using this | the rear wheels, thus minimising | skidding. Use Horn fof Light. Lights bad? Road rather treacher- ous :nfi dark? Worried for fear your headlights may not suffice to warn stray pedestrians, teams or other 'mu:u vehicles of yeur &p- t “light" yeur usly Then why 1 Soure people lose their heads when they drive; others lose their "bear- ings.” The state of Connecticyt re- ports that careleseness Is becoming so popular among motorists that during the past ycar 35,000 license plates—or s us they call them in nes :ut—were lost In that state alone. |Just how many lost thelr temper could not be accurately ascertained. The springs on the driver's side of | the car are nlways tested for greater - | stiftness than those on the other side. | One of the manufacturers makes ghe | exact difference fifty pounds, evident- ly figuring that a lot of drivers are “Jiegvy welghts” In the popular mean- | ing of the term. | Copyright, 1623, by the Ullman Feature Service. CYCLES TO LOS ANGELES ON $1.50 GASOLINE | e | Californian Gives Unusual Demon- stration of Long-Distance Econ- omy and Capability. Loug-distance touring economy and lity of the lightweight motor | agaftn was demonatrated recent- 1y hen R D. Eilersen of Oakland ar- Irived at Los Angeles from the north- ‘HOT STUFF! RED DEVIL MOTOR FUEL The response by the motoring public to AMERICA’S FOREMOST MOTOR FUEL has been beyond all ex- pectations, equaled only by performances promised and DONE BY RED DEVIL, the all-weather motor fuel. .Get some today and know the reason why. REPUBLIC OIL CO. Rosslyn, Va. North Capitol Tire 1218 North Capitol St. The Last Word in Distributors SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY Central Auto Supply 1004 Pa. Ave. N.W. 4% S 5 51 Shop 8 Uptown Auto Supply 18th and California Sts. N.W. Watch Announcement for Additional Dealers Union Stati LINC endures from the Lo, plant ever without qualification, developed. OLN Get Behind the Wheel The ease of mind and sense of security in driving a Lincoln minute you open the throttle are back from the trip. e The 8cylinder motor —cylinder blocks set at an included angle of 60°, the refinements of which show the greatest okill in the motor car industry, gives to- the the finest auyom%bile power Lehman’s Tire Shop iif! ’ West 856 treet Auto Supply 4 4, St. S.W. 11 H St. N.w. . P. Chaconas Auto Supply, Alexandria — > - = mi i until you ern city, via the cosst route, on 3 fuel consumption of four and one-half gallons of gas and one-half gallon of ofl. The di Eilersen a ik 10 o'clock, and the. tourist reached here shortly after noon. Eilersen, who I8 a carpenter by trade, had ridden the machine over 1,000 miles to and from work and for halts his fuel consumption averages fifty miles por gallgn of gasoline. H Keeps accurate that the tptal running expen 10,000 miles. inecluding gasoline : 5 25 cents & gallon, oil at $1.60 & gal Founds—Running Cost Small. | i, P05 & Booon, O 8 e tarn Fred B. Groves, @ man fifty-seven | Valves ground u cleanel vears of age living in San Diego, | & € wll Calif, bought a motor eyele last| e spring. e has ridden 10,000 miles A since, and that the only work that | \wineh is a hias been done on It was grinding the | cconomy of valves and eleaning out the carbon after It had traveled 8.500 miles. Mr. Groves is engaged in the col- | —_— lection work and averages Mfty stops | If you want work rcad the wani « a day. but even with these numerous | umns of The Star. COLLECTOR SAVES TIME. ‘ unts and re Uses Motor Cycle in Making med 100 miles on of gas and had over 8 quart in tank when he arrived at a local cy. iding to utilize the Christmas Y ‘period (or a leng-comtem- ated visit to Los Angeles, Kilersen t out from Sap Francise 3 m. Sunday and mottored te bles, 314 miles, where i that night. On Monday he traveled south to Ventura, 167 miles, again booking at & hotel. The final leg of the trip began Tuesday morning at recreation before starting south. He reported his total fue] expense for the down_teip s 9..50. His mechanicul easudtios conafsted of & broken fea- | der support, suutained in i spiil caused by a patch of oil on the road, Speaking of his trip, he declared him. self highly pleased with the per- formance of the machinc in & long- | distance trip and stated that he had x..d low speed only twice on the o ation of ti a good motor eyele fo efficient everyday transportation urpey. After visiting friends here, | e plans to return north via the val- ley route. Four Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Ford Car This Month I The unprecedented demand for Ford Cars throughout the winter months has taken the entire output of the Ford plants working at capacity, indicating that the demand this spring will be far in excess of the number of Ford Cars that can possibly be built. II. January was the tenth consecutive month in which retail deliveries exceeded 100,000 Ford Cars and Trucks. Requirements for February, the month when preparations are already under way for Spring business, called for 148,407 Cars and Trucks—more than 24,000 in excess of the number we can possibly produce. III. Ford dealers in many parts of the couniry are already finding it necessary to specify future delivery dates on Ford Products be- cause there are no reserve stocks to draw from. IV. Your order placed now will protect you against delay or disappointment later on— It is the only way you can be assured of reasonably prompt delivery. We copsider it important to give you these facts, so that if you are planning to purchase a Ford Car, Truck or Fordson Tractor for use this Spring or Summer you can list your order at once and take advantage of our dealers’ first opportunity to make delivery. Detroif, Michigan See Any Authorized Washington Ford Dealer A Small Deposit and Easy Payments if Desired