The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-13
WARNINGS AGAINST
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| The man who aspires TO become a
motorist will find himself from the
Hery 5sE1nning on small igland S OF
a sea of Don't No other sport pre-
SCENTS SO many problems for the solu-
ton OF the neophyte as does motoring.
tsecond-hand car. without taking ax-
pert and unprecedented advice In the
matter. While the judfcious buyer of
his moneys worth. the man who
rashly buys a used machine more
often than not finds 4hinlself in pos
session of something 1T only for the
scrap heap. Put 1t down as an
axiom: Never buy a, secondhand car
without first taking it down. If you
self, and few can, pay some one whom
you can trust absolutely to do 1T FOR
! you You will never regret spending
the money. Even after you are sure
condition, be sure that you are get
| ting something besides the bare car.
Remember that while the price may
seem low, by the time you have pur-
/ chased essential accessories, to put the
car in running order, you VIII nave
added a tidy sum to the first cost
On the other hand If you escheW
the secondhand car and go direct to
the agents for new machine, oon' I
be in hurry
| Don't, if there are only two in your
family, while the man next door has
a. housefu1 of children, buy a seven
seated touring car.
| Don't select a. car by the color OF
its enamel.
Don't forget to ask questions and
| don't let the salesman answer them
| in blank verse. Pin him down to
| Don't be too pround to accept the
| advice and assistance OF a wel-posted
low advice to smother your own jrdg-
| mant-
After you have purchased your
Don't imagine that it is possessed of
a chrome steel constitution and abso-
lutte Immortality
Don't forget that what castor oil IL
| to a baby, Iubricating oil is to a car.
ILearn to know the noise OF your motor
as mother understands the cry of
her baby, also inject the remedial OIL
tor plenty Of fodder-peg pardon, gas.
i In exact proportion to the work re-
turped will be the consumption OF
Don't despise a tiny gasoline leak.
Trace it to its source as you would
follow the footprints of man who
had stolen your last dollar.
/ Don't be carelessly familiar with
your gas tank. After the gasoline has
been drawn out, a highly inflamma,ble
kgas remains that often blows UP the
1nwary tinker with a leaking tank.
/ Don't use the same funnel for CIV
/ ing your motor a. drink of water and
/ a zee or SaSO1lne 1)1SdSleE lies
| that way.
Don't use dirty funnel. If it has
accumulated a layer of soil, take a
| minute to clean it out thoroughly.
i Don't run away with the ideas that
the most plentiful supply of gas can
do it's work without a good ignition
Don't forget that while electricity
can take the globe in a second, it
balks at bad joint in the wiring Of
your ignition
Don't unless you are a past master
motorisft, monkey with your ignition
system You might as well go into
/ the hospital without training and try
to operate unfortunate patients.
| Don't make your car museum for
a display of unique accessories.
Don't forget that shoes will make
up by far the largest item of your up
keep bill The man who has any de-
sire to spare his pocketbook will treat
his tires with the same respect and
solicitude that he bestows on himself.
Don't fall into the comman error of
washing tires off with kerosine. Oil
latfon to rubber that strychnine does
to the human stomach.
| Don't think that after you have
washed your tires you have done your
whole duty by them.
Don't fail to emernber that in
significant cuts on the surface OF a
tire are simply the outline sketch of
a. set of deep gashes which use will
rapidly turn into q completed picture.
| Don't think that filing in the little
cuts in the tire surface ends the job.
Unless the material is vulcanized af-
| terward, the operation has simply
n writ iYlcr on Ia