The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1922, Page 9

Via THE SEATTLE STAR FORD ENTRY IN. SPEED CLASSIC Wireless Equipped Midget Challenged Big Cars Lis, Ind., May t— and a Ford car ig league auto- will Dreak Into the mobile racing with the $00-mile dash for $100,000 to be held at the Indian as | BUILD YOUR OWN FLIVVER! | apolis motor speedway Tuesday, May 90, according to announcement | by speedway officials, | ‘The Ford, which will be equipped with a FrontyF motor head and otherwise strengthened, has been entered by the racing Chevrolet Drothere—Arthur and Loule—and the experiment was successful to @irt track races last year. It wil! eording to the Chevrolets. ‘They want their little car, which fs plgmy in size when compared with the other mounts in the race, to have every possible advan. tage, so the “Fronty-Ford.” as the has been entered, will be equip with @ wireless telephone rece!v- eet epeagett 5 3 fe 5 gigee ality s g ke Cortner, Greenville, O, bas lo drive the Fronty- wireless attachment tn Indianapolis get- ay, This is the firet as ever been used In 14. There will be « on the rear of the car toh the waves as the car apeeds way around the course. The re ceiving headgear will be worn by the mechanic, who will tn turn de liver measages to the driver, It ts hoped in thie way to have the Fronty-Ford the best informed team on the track. Tt wilt be Interesting to see the results. T. B. Myers, manager of the speedway, bier at gt 2 ter the race. He made this conees sion because of the known ability ef Chevrojets as racing engineers. Plan Road to Big California Trees AUBURN, Cal, May ¢.—The for @st service has set aside $5,000 for the Improvement of the road from / ‘Westville to the Robinson Fiat) Fanger station, according to an-| -| during a atuday grind of the “pork: || raid this would be! the only Ford car permitted to en-/ 1 | or sa | 4 ae ‘ ~ Wiad , Sa a ee This “automobile” will soon a resorts, All he needs is lumber, contraption. ar on streets of summer It will cost approximately $2 But any motorist with a mechanical trend can build this at much less cost. four bicycle discarded Ford parts and the motor wheel which drives the; A gallon of gasoline and a half pint of oil will drive the affair 80 miles, it is claimed. Six-Day Rac of the best things the elzday bicye riders do. Nor ts their appetite | and-beans” variety. It ls nothing tf not eplourean, the riders displaying | in @ome cases marked flashes of | temperament in selecting articles of wheels, that his a ers Are Champ Fork Swingers Aside from riding, eating te one} however, means must remain on the track, against the field, that long, and this i. feat not often atrempted, requir Ing 48 it does pronounced endurance; on the part of the rider. part There in no certainty about length of the sleeping rider may done off when a - | etert on the track «@ Steaks are most popular among|Sisuecy te his tras |riders. Fees in a variety of form®.|t, mount his wheel era lehicken prepared in every conceiy able manner, and frults also are eat Jen abundantly. Coffee is used in |ereat quantities. | Some riders are satisfied with |four or five meals daily, while oth ers eat double that number Train ore explain these lusty appetites are due to the constant tearing & by tiseues of the riders’ be F lowing to the continued pedaling | ‘D*Y declare, the long # jabout the track. The body requires = pale lege sen plenty of “ammunition” to enable |!) 0* fresy ‘ |the rider to drive bis wheel alc yeah sang Meow gcse ate: the wooden track for the 146 how jot the race As far ae sleep te concerned, there ere no Rip Van Winkles riding in the sixday races. The riders’ sleep comes in periods that average three! te four hours, are more often lesa | Bouncement by Supervieor RL. P. Bigelow of the Tahoe national forest. | ‘The announcement fs considered | important, tmasmuch as the Placer Dig trees are situated along this Toute and the road improvements ‘Will enable touriste and sightseers to view the forest giants. 5,000Used Tires All high grade selected casings. thoroughly os and i i : 3s Bieit! & s3u =~ Sie Perereesenarg Careful attention paid to Mail Orders. No deposit recuired. PikeStreet Tire Shop W. 0. STANDRING, Propr. 1026 Pike St., Cor. Boren When worn or broken have to be replaced be sure that all replacements are Senuine, not imitation parts. It is the only Sure of having qui funning gears that will wear We can supply your dealer, fepalr or garage man. OR SALES CO. PARTS JOBHERS S19 E. Pine St. Phone B. 1055 PISTONS IGH LIGHTEST - FIT TIGHTEST. We grind or bore your block In MY your garsgo or ours. Fit pistons, pins and rings { Our Ol) Proof Ring gives you Hf 1,000 miles to ane gallon Call us for estimate Ralph R. Wheaton, Inc. East 1176—705% E. Pike SOUND Hissing broken Hissing or whistling Hissing, back firing Knocking day vider na it An inventor has patented a motor-| work proposed, and plans were mare driven machine to | the ground aad convey bike generally ter before in hours of sleep to n }ly, the rider upon Pie completion of | a six-day race does not feel sleepy tn several ep oo! “am,” sport ele phy TROUBLE bolts loose. Knock at high speed Knock when spark ts a4 vanced Short, metallic knock Knock from overheating Dull, metalic knock Sharp knock Sustmen Heavy, metallic knock Dull knock Clicking Worn piston. t. hub bearings. teeth worn Dull pound Loose fly wheel: leak, eto. Grinding, equeaking Squeaking Blowing sound Back firing Misfiring Cylinder release cock open. head gasket loose; Carbon tn combustion « Cylinder block loc Water jackets clogged. Worn or loose piston pine. Leone connecting rod; tappet out of ad spark plug Air leak in manifold joints. Valve stems bent Spark too far advanced; lower crankcase amber tacle; broken fan valven loose or cracked; vaive stems worn; timing geare loose or loose crankcase; heated cooling system @ue to radiator Ol level too low; pump obstructed. Magneto or distributor bearings dry. OU leaking thru crankcase Broken or weak valve aprin: Spark plug gap too small. kota. period r and obliged resume | Here ls an example o pedaling to relieve his partner, who, reason of the nothing more than a sudden sprint | cannot continue the fast pace Men who have followed the six racing clare that the highest type of ath | lete ts required for the event oerfect which ho’ pick nute from them into] age ts u much hand labor. | most impo Locate Trouble Thru Sounds walls scored; leone or Leosenass or end pinay tn main bearings. Loon camshaft ben Fan blad@és striking over J. RABBIT ANSWER DEPT QUES: L HAVE A 00G BUT CAMT THINK OF A NANE . WHAT SHALL 1007 -G.m ANG: TRADE WITH Mg > 1 CAN THINK OF & BY HOLMAN few riding During the coming season there will be @ greater number of tour iste in the mcific Northwest than ever before. At least 700,000 per fons will pass thru this corner of the nation Cuthbert ary of the Pacific lnnue of Motoriat, the Washington. way that Mr tion to make @ forecast, as his or senization has been responsible for the Western Warthington the official public.tion of Automobile Club of Western that have visited the Northwest in the last five years, It continues: auto tourista will numbers Rail totiriste will increase becau | the tourist association has been able |to persiade the railways not only j to offer reduced summer rates at @ dixcount of practically 20 per cent, but to put forward the opening dete fo May 15, The auto club has al ready felt the indications of greater rail travel In the larger number of com larg ROAD REPAIR ner tne | Grade 2 Culverts in Day is | 1 May ¢ what can be Cal SACRAMENTO, done tn communit thru @ prop in which ia | ment } good roads day, local or | gontzations and official county and jen co-operate. Other corm onely de pa ds Gay was held in °F | Carmichael colony, near Sacramento. al trim, 1 The idea originated among the oo ony people, who took ft up with iniahes waniah®s | the supervisor from that district th mane | Th® newly appointed county inh - intenance engineer was in Strange to co-operate, Here, in part worked out in the words ura (ot C. We Deterding, Sacramento county highway maintenance eng! noer “A careful study was made of the In thie locality drain abtedly the grestest and ant problem In riad con |struction. A etailed examination was made of the district with the lebject of determining the most eco: omical and efficient size and loca |tlon of culverts, DRAINAGE IS CONSIDERED The drainage was considered from ote accordingly. two views “First removal of all water on the road as quickly as» na—The elimination of ob structions In the natural waterways whieh prevent the accumulation ot water tn the yw places. Where er e@tands the subsoil becomes srated and ite power to sustain the traffic is very limited. From the result of this study the ignated pointe three days lroad day “In the meantime the committee met to determine upon a general plan of proc 6. The colony was divided into dintriote. district had a captain who was instructed In the work to be done poasibie the men in each | consisted of the residents of that dis. trict This was dune for two ren First—@o that the distance re quired to go to work would be as vhort as possible. “fecond—They with the bad places in their immediate vicinity RESULT IS ASTONISHING “Saturday morning al! reported to their respective captains, bringing with them such equipment as they were able to spare from their farm work. All day long they worked that the roads in Carmichael colony | might be put in first-class condition At the end of the day their efforts had resulted in a most eredita showing. “When we consider that 42 men, three tractors, one truck, eight two. horse teams, two four-horse teams, with all the necessary equipment | spent the day on the road, it is not surprising that the day was such « | decided success. “The work remulted in the installa jtion of 19 culverts, repair of one = | | miliar Northwest Tourist association, in an | interview published in the current |p ‘osperity and the money and they RECORD SET, could do well to follow the | Pi | “The new model is the response to number and size of culverts were! determined and delivered at the dew | ormanizations went flatly on record before | #ealnet charging tourists for the use The opposition hae been ] As far an) intrict } would be more tr | Tourist Flood Is Coming This Year Inquiries received for cars to rent while Wastern tourists are in the | Northwest. Auto tourist travel will be | because of the greater number of |tion, Californians have two sons for coming, have a desire to see all of the Pa | cifte Coast. | ‘he talked to plans to come N | this summer, Californians hav Northwest It ts the logical imprensed place for | ettie them Mr hange of vielt | means an intere |something Califormta will not ever | look. eral te and municipal, than $44 @ oar. | } | | astic, Say Dealers Such is the estimate of Merbert | Californians who will visit this sec 4 Mr. Cuthbert says that during bis ‘The article goes on to| recent trip to California he found Cuthbert is in @ poal-| that practically every third motorist r jo of business, ‘The total motor vehicle taxes, fed now equal $316,000,000 annually, or more | PACKARD SINGLE SIX MAKES. HIT —— | Six Miles, Build 19 Local Motorists Enthusi- | | In creating the new singlesix tour- fi the, Packard class of motorista who demand qual tty but cannot afford mac people have “wine trfumph with the 1 ines in the price class of the Packard twin six, le the opinion of Packard company officiain. & long felt demand for a Packard oa the Seattle r within reach of the average motor. int’s pur President Mosely today ne singlewix ts a @ligh amatier edition of the a twineix and within its graceful body is tncorpor ated every feature that has put the larger Packard in the front rank of high-grade automobiles.” Every effort eliminate weight from the lighter six As a reoult, the car th eany on t oline, according to Mosely display room ef the loca company. |Boise Fights Over | BOMB, Idaho, May 6..-Whethe lor not the tourist park in Boiss sha |continue as a free or as pald to | park has become a mooted fesue in toriety over the country this park, which is outfitted with has been made to remarkably This model is on exhibition tn the Charge to Tourists 1 t n Hotee gained considerable becauns electric washers, electric irons, nat ural hot water, shower baths and gan, a community house for the upe of patrons and an ideal site under shade trees and near the high athletic grounds. hoo! 1 Tourists stopping at the park have enjoyed all of its privileges in the past free of This year there has been ag [to place a fee on all entrar | Opposition to the fee plan «prang up on all sides and many of the civ {or the park | gain voluntary eubscriptions to a genera }fund are being taken by publio-spir ed citizens and it ng ground, with the result that rth | ne @ large proportion of the tourists | had the acenic attractions of the Pa upon arge.! tion sufficient money will be raised this month to finance the park, thus kf fee. {AUTO TALK | } —— ing off the plan to charge tourists a/ Savings due to standardization of jauto parts are said to amount to 15 per cent of the retail price annually eee | {has increased by 100 per cent since |the beginning of the war. Danzig, Poland, with a pop of 250,000, has 661 motor veh eee tion ®. | wooden bridge, six miles of grading and the filling in of 12 low places.” SIZE 30 29% SEATTLE MALL ORDERS GIVEN or too much gas The Best Tire Value IN SEATTLE SEIBERLING’S NEW PORTAGE TIRES x34, AT SAVING Other sizes at a price in keeping with the Quality, McKALE TIRE CO. DEALERS 1201 Pine, Corner of Minor PROMPT ATTENTION Number of automobdiles in France | eee Agricultural states contain the! largest number of automobiles in proportion to population. | eee German cycle car sells for 5,000 marke—about $22 at present ex change rates. eee Eighty-thres per cent of the world’s automobiies are in the United States, Smoke fs caused by too much oil | is expected that | | Detroit, according to an Eastern Rati tourtete will be greater and| them to come to find a change in| Cuthbert very | the California | | |Heavy Milk Haul | to Philadelphia | PHILADELPHIA, May 6.—The |srnount of milk hauled to Philadel phia by auto truck increased 400 per cent above that shipped in 1920, bee ing over 21,000,000 quarte for the year, according to Robert W. Baldere won, secretary of the Interstate Prov ducers’ association of Philadelphia, leas than % per cent of the milk now goen into Cincinnat! by rail, the rest going by truck, according to a state — | ment made by H. B. Berning, secre 114,325 Engaged Now in Road Work According to statistics give md Builders ‘as Famous Racer Joins Liberty Motor Firm Joe Hoyer, the millionaire Detrott sportaman, who has driven himself) 2 Uthn. DiGsaes getemee to racing fame in many of the | engaged in road bullding work. There World's greatest speed contests of re-|are 80,000 federal, state, town and cent years, ban associated himaelt | County highway yer » 7,000 road contractors, 2,000 bridge contractors, with the distributing organization of | 15,000 civil and highway engine the Liberty Motor Car Co., as a firm | 10,000 automotive and member of the Miller. of neers and 325 geologiat ae Si me mon udd Co. | wire. London, Eng., has « motor ambu- nee lance for first aid to dogs injured | tary of the Cincinnati Producers’ as Because of the American women, | on the streets. sedation, « ida, shift levers, foot | F and upholstery have been| Palnt rim occastonally to prevent Never test @ battery Just after altered in the present style paesen- | rust. filling with water. er automobile to meet the comfort, whims or practical demands of the Keep eyes ahead while shifting fair sex gears, F Castor or nentafoot ofl is best to soften a leather cone clutch WE ARE NOW DOING BUSINESS IN OUR NEW LOCATION 1016-18 E. PIKE STREET (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves.) We sold more cars in March than any month in the history of the Studebaker Agency in Seattle and in Aptil we increased our March business 70%. We are selling Studebakers fast- er than we can get them. The sooner orders are placed, the more quickly we can make delivery, SANDS MOTORS COMPANY 1016-18 East Pike Street THIS IS A STUDEBAKER YEAR Ask any one of the millions of Ford owners and they willtell you, that for pleasure, convenience, utility, service and economy, to Buy a Ford —and Bank the Difference. F.0.B. DETROIT Terms if Desired AUTHORIZED SEATTLE FORD DEALERS: HUGH BAIRD HART & HART, Inc. Fourth Ave. at dames St. 6200 Stanley Ave., Georgetown Eliott 0750 Sidney 0550 WM. L. HUGHSON CO., Inc. CANAL MOTORS CO. Third Ave. and Stewart St. BIS Nickers Eltiote 0076 Garfield RAINIER MOTORS CO., Inc. CENTRAL AGENCY, Ine, TORI Ave. pnd Coayoen He. A. F. (Burt) Blangy, Mer, Beacon 0532 Brdadway and East Pike WEST SIDE AGENCY, Inc East 0320 California and Alaska St. COYLE & WOODRUFF, Inc. West 1474 WILSON & KREITLE, Ine 1102 EB, 45th Street Kenwood 0031 4763 Ballard Ave, “WE SELL LINCOLN CARS” Sunset 4633