The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
BARNEY OLDFIELD
 PRAISES PACKARD
Speedway Champion Says It Passes Toughest Ordeal-Uses It Regu-
 larly for Travelling

w. H. Irwin, manager or the TaCkdTu Motor Car company, distributors of the Packard automobile here, is in receipt of the following letter:
 Dear MT. Irwin: Replying to your query as to my opinion of the Packard car, beg to say. initially, that my vocabulary is too limited to express as I would wish, my enthusiastic admirs- ton of this splendid type of automobile My friends everywhere know. as, since I am an automobile race driver. they look to me for expert advice in the matter of the superiority of one automo- bile over another, that when it comes to a pleasure car I can see but one-the Packard-and that I am always souni- ing it's praises.
 T think, and I say 1t with due mod esty that nobody in the country is more thoroughly conversant with the admir- able qualities of the Packard than my self, as I have owned three of your cars. When you take into consideration the unusually long life of a Packard, the length of time I have been driving your car-long enough for me to become ac- quanted with one and all of it's unrivaled advantages over other cars, and during which time I have found no defect to prejudice me in the slightest degree against it.
 Probably there is no automobilist in car more severely than myself, and the | Packard has never once failed to answer my call and to pass sturdily through the toughest ordeal If all autoists had piloted | a Packard as long as myself, and had ] found it always ready and eager to re- spond to the many tests of reliability and 1 durability that I have put 1t to, they 1 would be as earnest and ardent ad- vocates of the peerless Packard as my self. A bond of friendship has grown uY between myself and my Packard tha seems hard to nderstand-reminding m, often of the affection existing between horse owner and his favorite equine-ant sometimes it seems to me as if m, Packard is bit jealous when I leave i to risk death in another car in racing.
 My present Packard-a Twin Six has been driven by me more than 25,0O miles, and I have owned 1t less than
 year. During the time I have had 1t ) have covered every section of the coun try in it and driven it hard and the onl !, repairs that I have been compelled { make have been of a most trivial nature On April 10, this year, left Los Angeles Cal, my home, in my car. to drive to In : dianapolis. When I left the wager WI made with me that would not cover II long stretch of country-over mountain and desert--in less than 10 days.
 made the trip In few hours less tha
 eight and one-half days, and won s-5
 bet by Frank Chance I would not do s Since coming east have toured betwee
 Chicago, Detroit. Indianapolis, Atlant St. Louis. Washington, Baltimore. Ne :. York and other big cities in which ha' A raced and the good and strong and h and durable Packard always gallan. i stood up under me.
 k Since coming east I have been on , train but thrice making one and all my journeys in your great cart . Packard I have forded streams-wi . and so deep that the water covered : 2 hood of my machine, and filled up | crankcase-and after emerging from t
 water the Packard shook its head like : water spaniel and sped on It's way wit out evincing a single i'll or complain The car has never left me in the lure
 and that Is why I am. and always v
 be, it's best booster.
 Tt may interest you to know that M Oldfeld Is just as sincere an aomlrer ! the Packard as myself, and l have,
 her request, already placed an order
 Los Angeles for '3-35 Sedan for h
 personal use.
 When I commenced this letter I
 not intend to make 1t so long, mer'
 wishing to sum up briefly the incompar
 ble assets of your car, but it Is ha for me to start to say few words abo the Packard without running on almt indefinitely lauding it--until am afrs that my words tire my audito:
 What have said, however, in q
 lengthy affair does not begin to GOV
 my enthusiastic admiration of the Pas
 ard. and am sure that any and
 Packard owners will agree with he "
 unanimity when say that l have
 said half enough about the great
 pleasure car in the world You know r
 BARNEY OLDFIELD.