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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. T. JUNE 80, 1999 PART 1. A mistake our tour! hat may ruin OU doubtless have heard it—maybe you are one of the careless whe repeat it: “All tires are about alike.” Do you really think this is true? If you do, how do you explain the: fact that one tire towers above all others both in popularity and in sales? How do you explain the fact that the leading manufacturers of metor cars, seeking the best in accessories, use more Goodyear Tires for original equip- ment than any other kind? How do you explain the fact that owners of the great truck fleets of industry, con- stantly on the hunt for cost-reduction, use more Goodyear Tires than any other kind? - How do you explain the fact that the wban, interurban and transcontinental ous lines, working always for safe and profitable operation, use “more Goodyear Tires than any other kind”’? Howdoyou explain the fact that not alone this year but for fourteen years it has been true,“more people ride on Goodyear Tires than on any other kind”? 0, good friend, these things are not to be explained, except on the true and unassailable premise that “all tires are NOT alike.” If you persist in thinking they are alike, that is your privilege. But you are deny- ing yourself benefits in tire satisfaction and savings in tire costs-that Goodyear users by the millions now enjoy. Another thing, these lost benefits are not the only penalties you may be paying. Summeris here, the roads are cflng, the charices are you are planning some fine' morning to head out for distant and alluring places on vacation in your car. Maybe before you leave you would like to escape any hazard of tire trouble, and with that thought in mind you outfit all around with a set of new tires. : On the performance. (yfdfihat set of tires " ~depends to a great extent the kind of a trip you will have,’ If you buy them thoughtlessly, if you pay out your good meney on the loose i idea that “all tires are about alike” you may be inviting trou _ A blowout, or a flat, on a hot dustyroada ' long way from a service station,is one of the surest destroyers of the vacation frame of mind that ever was! ; ,SO why not get the best insurance there is, agdinst a mistake that may ruin_your- tour, by insisting that your new tires be Goodyear Tires? They’ll ‘cost you little if anything more _ than other tires, and it is the judgnient " of an overwhelming percentage of motor- ists that they are outstandingly the best tires money can buy. r———————a—— e | 3 Tread and carcass: these are the two main parts of a tire. There is greater traction in the Goodvear All-Weather Tread. There is greater rvitality in the Goodyear Supertwist carcass. Evidence? Any Goodvear Dealer will demonstrate. Proof? “More people ride-on Goodyear Tires than on any other kind!™ THE G A TS T - N 7 i o] RYBBER