Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-08
THE CAR THAT WON
AND ITS FIRST AIDS
Things That Produced a Perfect
Score in Great Race

The gallant little Kissel Kar turned
the trick in winning the great desert
race, and that it was hard fought, the
| telegraphic records bear out, for the
| time of the winner of last years race
was clipped by four hours, and the
record today is more than two hours
| the best express time. The Kissel kar
| that won this race was not q specially
prepared racer, but an actual stock
car taken off the floor of the sales
room and stripped down to racing con-
ditions. And yet it is car that sells
for only about half as much as its
nearest competitors. 1t is pretty
safe plan to know something of the
motor of the car you buy, for it is not
all in the price you pay or the gaudi-
ness of the car at a big price.
GOODYEAR TIRES
One of the most noticeable achieve
ments of the automobile world was
that of the performance of the Kissel
Kar in the race which was finished
yesterday at the territorial capital at
| Phoenix.
Seemingly from the first but little
attention was paid to the little red
car as to it's chances of winning, but
when the nervy driver, Harvey Her
| rick took the wheel for the long and
grueling drive of Saturday night that
steady but knowing smile stole across
his face as much as to say, well,
Just wait till Monday and see where
| the Kissel will be-"
When one stops to consider that the
fastest time made on the express
| trains to Phoenix from this city is
eighteen hours and then think of the
Kissel Kar making the run over the
dreary and sandy wastes of the desert
| in two hours and twenty minutes bet
ter time than the railroad express
trains, some idea may be had of the
terrific work of the driver of the
Kissel.
The Kissel was equipped with Good
year tires all around, as was the
Buick, the winner of last years race,
and the most wonderful thing of all
is the fact that the Kissel left Los
Angeles with her tires debated down
to twenty-five pounds and made the
run all the way through without
touching the tires and with the orig
inal air arrived in Phoenix in as good
condition as when she left here Sat
urday night last
Herrick. the driver of the Kissel
lar, states II cannot understand
how those tires stand up the way they
do Not a particle of trouble, and
when we hit the bumps till believing
lAlehI llAC S1I NOhlo IuIIl IuItlSy SIl0
would land from her pitch in the air
and trot along with but twenty-five
pounds of air as though she was a
parlor cushion. No jar, no knock, Just
as easy as rocking chair, and I have
driven the Kissel over 1000 miles on
the same set of tires, and they are as
good as when we first put them on"
sCHEBLER CARBURETOR
1.-THE heart of the automobile" is the
apt way the Wheeler -Schebler people
have referring to their product, which
has won more race victories than any
similar part of an automobiles con-
struction of any other make. Schebler
carburetors are known and used Wher-
ever the English language is spoken,
and are to be found on many foreign
made cars. 1t is the carburetor that
Is the heart of machine and it's pulls
ations rhythmically feed the power
plant and feeds The arteries of it's
mechanism with the force that leads
to victory. No harder test of a car
buretor could be asked than to make
the grueling trip from Los Angeles to
Phoenix over an almost impossible
course; and yet to do it's work so we'll
that without miss of it's engine drives
motor car at more than express
speed. 1t was a Schebler carburetor
that was on the Kissel Kar-the win
ner of the Los Angeles Phoenix race.
HARRIS OIL
An oil that will feed just right and
will go the greatest number of miles
to a given quantity is the oil that is
most looked for by a careful, prac-
tical automobile driver. Harris oils
have figured in many racing contests,
but in none has its efficiency been
more thoroughly tested than in the
Los Angeles Phoenix race; the great
est, longest and hardest road race on
record; travelling over two mountain
ranges, through more than a hundred
miles of deepest desert sand over lava
beds and plowing through fords. Har-
ris oil deserves its share of the praise
in the success of the Kissel Kar, the
winner of this years race. and Chans-
lor 81 Lyon, the local distributors for
Harris oils, are justly elated over the
victory.
MARTIN SHOCK ABsORBER
A Los Angeles invention figured
prominently in the Los Angeles-Phoe-
nix race. Naturally it took well
built car, powerful motor, good tires
and good oil to make the trip; but to
give the car elasticity, to keep 1t from
going to pieces over the rough roads
ard to give the greatest comfort to
the driver-the one thing necessary
was a good shock absorber-and the
kind that was on seven of the en-
trants in this race, and on the first
and second cars to finish-were Mar