El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-29
AUTO OWNER WHO
HAS TROUBLE SAYS
BUY A CAR
Ell PasOan Is Enthusiastic
Over the Machine for
LOcOmOtiOn.

After freezing radiator, bursting
tire that had frozen to the paving. and
paid on an average of $50 per month
for the care and upkeep of his automo-
/ bile, one local automobile enthusiast,
who is just finishing his first year as
the owner of a motor car, is still as
much Of an enthusiast as ne Mas the
day he purchased his car and made the
first run down the county road.
His advice TO prospective purchasers
of cars is by all means to get one of one
ca afford l. He does not consider his
different kinds of tough lick as ar IN
dictment against the motor car as
means of locomotion and he says he
would do it all over if ne had the oppOr-
tunity.
Interesting Experience.
His point of view, that of the lay nan
who knew nothing about Il ear until he
bought OSe and who gained his e. peri
e1ce in the training school of hard luck:
3 interesting as coming from an entire
l. different slant frOI the paid booster
for the automobile business or the con-
firmed skeptfc who would not have an
auto if it was given % him with The
gasoline furnished.
To start with this auto owner kept his
machine at home. That is where he did
not find it necessary to trundle il down
town to the garage A few trips of this
kind taught him his first real lesson
After losing various attachments TO his
machine while IL was in the garage he
says he learned 10 strip his car at home
before taking it to the garage The gar
age owner told him after he had LOST
some valuable parts that he, the garage
keeper, was not responsible for such
things when they were not given into
his personal keeping. That was lesson
number one.
Radiator Freezes
About the time he was forgetting that
there was such a thing as a garage in
the world along came the cold wea Their
and he knew nothing of freezing go
lutons and very little about freezing ra-
diators. his radiator froze m solid IF
cost him $40 to have it patched and
while his car was laid up in the garage
with this internal trouble, a friend of
his with the same make car was footing
around the street as If ii was the mid
die Of June, instead of the middle of
winter He had learned the &esson of
freezing solutions and their value as
preventive of a frozen radiator.
During the same cold wearilc.- the
ownef left his car standing on the down
town paving. Accommodating moisture in
some unknown way. his dire blew En-
with report like a IS inch gun ex-
plodlnS ana there was a hole in il big
enough to throw a dog through. This
was not so bad. he said, for another auto
owning friend, had the same experience.
ana misery loves company better in the
auto game than any, other.
Other Troubles.
Minor auto troubles that this owner
experienced during his year as a proud
possessor of 1909 model consisted of n
frozen water pump, which cost him
$4-5O TO replace and s25 10 dig out all
OF the lost, strayed and stolen parts that
mad tangled up with the inner workings
OF the machine Tire troubles, gasoline
bills and repair bills added their load
10 the troubles of the auto owner. Some
times fate would play fast and loose
with it. One month his bills would not
total over Sc or IS. Then they would take
a flyer and land in the $50 and better
column.
Yet in spite of all this. this same own
er says by all means buy n car and run
it every day. That is what he did and
he says considering everything. he is