The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-12-12

By X, P. Drysdale.

if it be. his first experience, has a
somewhat perpleAing problem to
solve A hundred or more different
makes or types are offered for his
consideration and every salesman
has just the car he ought to buy.
To the average first purchaser,
any automobile is, an automobile.
He sees all makes and kinds and
sizes, varying in price from few
hundred to several thousand dollars.
They all go Swimming along and APP
pear to be carrying their occupants
smoothly along on business or pleas
ure bent. So far as he can see they
all run all right. His first desire is
to own an automobile something
to ride in.
But after he has had his car
awhile, he begins to be more criti-
cal. He begins to notice the exist
ence. and absence of, things he had
not thought of before.
He may find tia hard job to crank
and start his car while some other
car can be started with ease or per-
haps it may have an automatic
starter.
He may find that it requires about
all his strength to push OUT the
clutch or to put on the brakes. ;"
while in some other car, only a
slight pressure of the foot is all
that is necessary.
| He may find that his car starts
with a jerk and lunge. while some
other, car moves off with the smooth
ness of an ocean liner.
He may find that his car is hard
to steer, hard to keep in the road,
while some other car seems almost
to steer itself.
/ He may find in few months that
the wear on the steering gear per-
mits excessive play or lost. motion,
making steering uncertain and un-
safe and that there is no provision
made for taking up that lost mo-
4 ton, while in some other car such
danger is not possible.
| He may find that the changing of
gears is accompanied by crash and
a grind. while in some other car
| the change is hardly perceptible.
| He may find that his car rides
lizard and stiff, that the springs seen,
unyielding and that his car is less
comfortable to ride in over asphalt
streets than is some other car over
an unimproved road.
/ He may find that his car runs
smoothly and quietly when new,
but soon becomes noisy and shakes
and rattles because it has no means
for adjustments to take up wear.
while some other car after months
and years of use, runs just as
smoothly and quietly when new.
He may find that his car runs al.
right on level streets and roads
but when it comes to sand or hills
it has not the power to make. the
pulls.
| He may find that he can only get
8 or 10 miles on a gallon of gasoline
while with some other car the mile.
age runs from 60 to 80 per cent
greater.
| He may find after a few months
| or only few weeks that his engine
is losing power, and do what he
may he cannot restore it. On the
other hand he sees cars which mo-
only retain their original power bu
actually improve.
He may find in few months tina
the finish fades. cracks. bIisters anc
peels off, while some other car re
tains its new and fresh appearance,
for two or three years or more.
He may find that to keep his ca
in running order he must be contin
ually tinkering with one part or an
other, while the user Of some othe
car seldom has occasion TO open TIL
tool kit.
II He may find that his engine heat
and the water boils while the engin
t in some other car never overheats
He may find after few months
running that the engine bearing
have worn. that no provision at al
I has been made for adjusting them
Or he may find that even though ad