Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-24
CAR PERFORMS
THRILLING FEATS
The New Famous death
Valley Dodge" Was of
Stock Construction.

Since the country became familiar
with the many thrilling feats of Death
Valley Dodge" the famous Dodge
Brothers car that traversed Death vol
ley, descended into the Grand canyon
there have been many inquiries as to
whether this car had been specially
built for rough work.
In order to present an authoritative
statement, Dodge Brothers asked o. X.
Parker, the Los Angeles engineer who
drove the car on it's many hazardous
point.
In response Mr.. Parker said:
Death Valley Dodge" is car No. 474.
manufactured by Dodge Brothers. 1t
is, and always has been. absolutely
was ever made in the car, the only
addition to it being that of a spot
light for night driving in the noun
tains. and the addition of a rope bump
err swung between the front springs
to enable the car to smash it's way
through the cactus. mesquite brush
and greasewood through which the car
is forced, as shown in the motion pic
lures.
II will gladly make affidavit to the
above facts and to the further state
ment that not a single break ever oc-
CURED in Death Valley Dodge" on
any of it's trips. The drive through
eight miles OF sand dunes and terrific
heat on the floor of Death valley was
probably the most strenuous trip ever
recorded in the annals of western
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below sea level. Death Valley Dodge"
was sent to the highest point ever
reached by automobile on the Pacific
coast where it successfully negotiated
the great glacial moraine region of the
high Sierras over two miles above sea
| level. After $4,000 miles of driving
into and through almost every desert
| in western America, Death Valley
Dodge" was driven last month to the
bottom of Grand canyon in Arizona
The motion picture camera recorded
the car being driven to the edge of the
rapids of the Colorado river. where
walls of the canyon lowered over a
mile in prec.pitous height above the
car. 1t was then driven to the highest
point on the south rim of the Grand
canyon. 5000 feet above the floor OF
l the gorge, punt never TtdCHeu De-
fore by automobile. The combination
of strenuous records held by Death
Valley Dodge" represents the roughest
mileage of driving ever undertaken in
! America.
II believe that these statements will
answer your inquiry in such a man.
ner as to satisfy the most curious.
There is one point, however. I see
have omitted to mention, and that
was the question how many tires were
used on the various trips which the
car has made? Death Valley Dodge
has now been driven over $4,000 miles
and in that period of time has had
three sets of tires. We have been for
tunate in having but few punctures on
our trips, and have had but one blow
out, that being due to running a SHARP
mesquite stub into one of the rear tires
in making one of our dashes through
the desert brush"
/ The fame of Death Valley Dodge
lhas extended not only over the United
Estates and Canada, but to the far off
nations of South America. From the
Vast pampas of Argentina. Brazil, IRA
quay and Paraguay, and the lofty
mountain regions of the Andean repub-
lilies there has come far cry for this
lmighty hill climbing car.