Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1924, Page 54

B THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, SEPTEMBER 28. 1924—PART 3. ist a gentle tip. “While in the long. with a fair degree of accuracy thé CARBON AND THE SPARK. spark gap and wonder why you have automobile: arting and stopping at the wheel of his present car: Keep the spark plugs clean. In i'h-]vlu engine misfires and doesn’t wor | e un ay O Orls every few feet—with cluteh and FOR MANY AUTO'STS “First read the odometer to get the | and outside, keep them free from | well. Sparkplugs should be snappy [ —_— e ke brake being worked constantly—you total number of miles traveled. Then |carbon and oil. Don't widen the workers . are in constant dread of bumping Assuming that your : TRlPS BEGIN S[]{]N An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. into the other felibw or beng crashed average speed while using the car is —— from the rear,” reads an advertise- . 20 miles an hour, this will show you = = > 7 ment of the Detroit United Lines. | Pyke Johnson, Representative of | iho number of hours you have spent EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. This Is typical. It merely sug s ? at the wheel of your car. to the progressive motorist that botn | National Organization, Notes EX- | “ «piide this figure by 24 to find dent ix xomething that may | commission the dealer gets out of [ANNOvances can be avoided by taking the number of whole days you have . | o seconda any o P ravel. o o e car. T e total Cold Weather Will See 60,- i one The excape Hiew | SHng o car or wondorea what 1 |0 Secondary routcs. many’ot whien | tent of Motor T baratsalygic cor ioloha ciota] 000 Heading t R e [ ervice it seems. (0 he csentias | 1M complicated with tranie. T Year simply divide the total mile: ¢ - | - service that seems ) A = of months vou Motorists Heading to . i ; to keeping e ¢ satisfied, s - That the motoring public is living by the mumber of months 3 o eping customers satistied, - oxd AV o B Ca d ply They're Running Wild. | A L Worth Remembering. {5 1ts antorpbiles is Nitaral fact and ,owned the car and multiply Resorts ||'| DIXIe hardly blame car owners| juciness.' It is 3 this sort of not figure of :-xll"_:vh, according to = X ) odometer reads ‘20, . - < spirit. | Consider the dis-}ignorauce of trade conditions that| It doesn't pay to put oft a re-|Pyke Johnson, Washington repre- 5 Dinnodolithe odomeler esns 20, on the automobile industry | makes motorists ask the impossible [ pair job too long. This is best illus- | Sentative of the National Automobile nilsad apdiyauliiave otredizn | | among als and the cross pur- the way ot trade-iv | trated in the case of valve grinding. | Chamber of Commerce. L "ru 0 a year Based upon tou experience poses at which they work. One of the and ihat BiecpE Thany e E | The average family may scem to[the rate o Lotk ed S and a ps many ,000 miles is about the safe limit _ ; £ G Dividing this > b . you find the approa st motor ations is knock-|cood car without local representa- |’ : { motor but a few hours a d; says, i < d some 60,000 : P 2 A |Some cars will go along to 10,000 | o al of th that you are motoring 600 hours a 1 some 60, i anotber because ot inmabiitrassilipac, ot Eoons L eeR Tanneaontas but the sum tota t : e oNae enroute to the s @ 2 at has 1| whether your dealer is losing money | Miles before the owner e | over a period of years shows that the - ayeianale Hemahigiso for xome part of | W rd to the impound- your deal or making. 1f he is|troubled with overheating 2 4 es demands upon a surpris- | motored consecutive hours and days the Winter. This is the estimate of of cars driven by reckless motor- | josing you are losing. too. The only |bon, but it isn't economy. The valve centage of their existence oh Tl e m_;ur;':“ S uad; amon st without exed " . H 3 E 2 P owing that every ye n fpurist aavelito the southland among Almost without exception the| thing ‘that mak s seats have to be bored and the valves ¢ . ceomplish the equivalent automob club_members | supposedly big peovle in the business | con®vo ot "of e i EBioedibeforelthey canibe srcunult Mr. Johnson has figured it out for R e the Touring and Transporta ire falsely taking the credit for ideas | our theaters and hote tact | Nearly e '” sl ° Eround In- |, pumber of friends and has outlined | motoring .‘:1 M'\mfll:h ¢ E of the Americun Automobile Asso-|heing put forward by the DrORTessive | {par they make. money. Automokile | CATlY doubles the time charges i the following met of determining st an entire w ciation at its he arters [ people in motordom. just for the Pub- | row i ne exception sometimes spoils the motor. licity they « e n it Sece that your odometer is cq Inconsiste is running wild. One when you first drive out with 000 automobi e company which sends a representa- Be Sure You Know. new car. Most owners do not con- /% fo emblem will this sei ro ¥ [tive to the traffic and safety commit-| A motorist has a right to be |Sider this point until they have run y Years ago. the Buick Motor F«‘”"Pl“‘.h visu- A. A. clubs F ©ltee of a national trade organization |puzzied when a dealer gives as the |©ff 1000 miles “nd are ready to “sce alized the fact that the automobile was destined many resort poin itics along factually advertises that its car can|peason for lack of snap in a motor |What she'll o Many an epzine is € the way. This cxpectation is g0 T3 miles an hour. A publisher| the fact that it is set up particu- |TUined because in placing too much to upon the fact that the touring board | rises up to say that “the time larly tight and, in the same breath, | confidence on an inaceurate odometer ing o special tour book of au- (hand when automobile manufacturers | adds that with such a caretully baiit | MOtorists actually drive too fast or tomobile routes to Florida and the | will have to change their pe motor you can drive the car 30 miles | 100 Slow (in high gear) during the Southcastern Stat | about used cars” Instead of advertis- fan hour when new without damage. | Vreaking-in period. srding to the announcement e oRE M bonhenl Al e t the same time. So, “How Two Parking Pointers. With the thought of better serving their ued from A A, A heidquarters th ates of the two general types of | are (wo varictics of engine [ If some one is vacating a parking . I tour book will be mot only |forates of the tw i Ul lofgeng ne |8 ! g t b present and future owners, Buick Mainten- Unfque in that it will cover the|(oufwheel brakes. = - tightness On one hand you hase |space on @ narrow one-way sireet performance canno (& ey laxbansaaly bearings [ you cannot wait for the procedurc ance Departments, or Service Stati 2 . EGItony lexnau i1 > departm that tend to keep the engine trom | because a street car is signaling for mce Departments, or Service Statians, as they urist. A strip map i er, how can’one cxpeet much in|hand you have {1ght Distons that | plan of Stapping for i mment o e €scriped or preju ed. we generally termed, have been established in Printed description Y B o oberation dmonk mo-|have not been run up and down in|opposite side of the street until the every locality, so that today, no matter in which S = their cylinders long enough to resist | street car and the other machine are (13 l t f E 5 2 = 2 good. clean surt of spirit in binding at speeds of over 25 miles | out of the way It 1S the evelation o direction a Buick owner travels there is a Main- the an hour. Always park vour car equidistant e appear to be changing In the former the eylinders have | between the machine in front and the . tenance Department within casy reach make his own map might well fer to the present asibeen lapped in to a point where bind-|one behind. It prevents the Po: a Rlde ” | I t 1 CasvRLe wch. these daze ing is not like at normal road | bility of having some o lock” you . become a very popular vehicle for cross- country travel. ¢ who have inspected advance > e Al expre speeds. In the latter the bearings|in if one of the cars pulls away and Sl The 01d Mechanic Says: may not be so SUM and there 1s a | another takes its place. If you leave pages e g . .¢|Patural temptation to accelerate too|all your spare at the rear of vour 1 etho tour-| Whenever 1 look at that fellow's 1 de . Quickly for the good of the cylinders. | car, for instance, the next driver| . o s and that it w « @ deti-Lear over there in the corner 1 think | 9% re you know which class your | parking in the rear may drive up e as| lngtol'l aduiac Lompany . € in Southern touring over | of old I Smith 1 the advice he k 8 . w car falls into close and never think to see whether E : Jast vear's high mark onee e me when I came to him ] 51 EENaNany ool nEEont Gt YA Rudolph Jose, President Retail Dealer With over 80 per cent of the auto- | with the complaint that | was goin® | Tip From the Trolley. 1138-1140 Connecticut Ave. Frank. 3900-3901-3902 1015 14th Street Main 5296 just a little cold in your ear. Why| Some of the street car companies « vrlul You .\’l UI]r for a r!u]\ and keep throughout the country, obviously ) 1 hot-water bottle on it when you &o | vexed at. the 2 = available to . te Sounded like quack advice | husiness by reason the poputurity a RETTITTIIRRR tober 10 . 1 was just makin’ a moun-[out the advantages of interurban s e qG e 8y RN Aid to Pleasure Trips. tain out of a molehill trolley riding as a form of recreation e A lot of people do that with their|To do this they invariably make the southland tour book a ""”‘1]4'1"-‘1 That car u\ol‘l 'hl‘:" i {mistake of knocking the automobile B 2 . . d to have a piston slap, but|ynconsciously giving the wise otor dence o l.’“ % = all I own that if 1 was to tear | = — = e — = touring an all-ve . i 1 wouldn't find of | —————— 3 . eto- |, ¥ There's some s 3 “Sirings"’ i e . ECRCEeres onie an i As EBONITE “*Strings™ t0 a Stick, confined large i SUIL b, but I can’t seem to convince the | i i i "f‘ ok 0 move | ©WHer that it pays to take it easy and | /7 ‘s‘ l""lwfi'." huilding of better T anl move |50 round the bears adapitable automohiles lihe Winter is | "y, his imagination loose and —_— ecoming more and 1 cpular us moto e cest't take it easy thill cost | NO GRINDING One day he got Figuring o i toal TN alve had broken. 1 NO NOISE inroads made on their ppened 1o be off on 4 towin' job and | n I got back here was my man When gears grate and Sin' the head off the engine on | grind, when they prema. Esoss chase .\r; x_hm‘ founafwast turely wear out, when they expected a t O e oxtec T imasing are hard to shift—the cause this one particu er vacat er wouldn't wait until the trouble is always faulty lubrica- land. spendins more t £5.000.000 . ; | tion. dw|\i.n’~ en rout 0 a lot of money on Beware of transmission Crh S iBe | ™ : 1 ;‘;rgu&e_s. they have no lu, which are located in vi el ricating values. L EBONITE cushions the 1 e things casy when a| it is announced e gears and lubricates at all e . — 3 ‘im your tale of wor | times. ' Remember the old rule that things | Full Steam Ahead! metimes improve with use. I've| The man who wishes all women | cleaned carbon out of fany an en. | I would have the air bobbed and be only to have the owner complain | b e stations from done with it so that he can find out | and imaxine that I had spoiled Al Checker-board what next they want says that g few weeks later—if he takes it easy— | pump, only. eral adoption of four-wheel brake e o are t he'll have the | balloon tires, ti | E st performance ever. | cleaners, oil fiiters, i - | transmissions : Y . 5 our Business, Too. | 2 shifts would clear the de p < real improvements. such as Ordinarily it would mot seem that (1¥S SHREDDED OIL) vertible body, Deisel 5 |a motorist has any part, charger, hydrauli i i Ito interest himself in the bu FOR TRANSMISSIONS Proof tires, semi-automatic 5. | his 1¢ 1tomobil aps AND DIFFERENTIALS o e K te to how muen DUPLEX —a new name or a new type car you have never seen before! A closed and open car combined —the advantages of both at an open car price! 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