The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
THOUSANDS VIEW FAMOUS GOLD CAR
 ON EXHIBITION HERE
Car Complete in Every De tail and Built to Run. 400 Ounces of Gold
 Used in Finishings

An ounce of gold Is worth approximate ly $20, and it took 400 ounces, valued al sS000, to complete the plate work on the Stakeholder Gold Car" now on exhibi- ton at the store of the R. D. Maxwell company local distributors and dealers in Studebaker cars. Eight thousand dol lars worth of 24-karat gold was con- sumed in finishing and it took six months to build this car, which is conservativeiy estimated to have cost the StudebaNel corporation $30,000 It is now being shipped from city to city in an express car, in charge of a special express mes senger, who sees that no one disturbs it. The car will be in Birmingham for the rest of this week, and thousands Of peo- pie are expected to view 1t before 1t IS moved to some other city.
 After the Studebaker people have com pleted their advertising tour with thls car, which is in charge of Jack Huge, from the Studebaker factory, it will be "interned" at the Studebaker museum in South Bend, alongside the carriage used while in the United States by General Lafayette; also those of Presidents Grant Lincoln and Jefferson. and many other curosties and antiques. Though three distinct offers have been made for the car, the company has refused to accept handsome prof1ts on their investment and will deposit it in their museum TOT permanent exhibition.
 SENSATION OF SHOW
 'When this car was unveiled in New York on January $, it was che sensation of the automobile show, said Jack Huge "Competitors of the Studebaker corpora ton passed the word along that we had something under the canvas and Wouio not allow any one to see It. Inls H. creased the curiosity of all, and when we announced that he would bare the cal to the public on certain day at lo:3o a. m we came near breaking up the other fellows exhibit, for the people were se eager to see the most beautiful car that has ever been built. It continued to pe admired by from five to ten rows Of peo- pie all around the railing, so long as the show lasted From New York It "en' to Chicago, and we had the same exper' fence there,'' said Jack Huge, specia factory representative in charge Of tn'
 
 making throughout the country.
 This car has nothing to do with tn' famous gold chassis that was built pA our corporation, which is now on exhipl ton in South America. This car wal built for the New York and Chicago automobile shows, and four men spen three months assembling the parts anS putting the car together, after they nat been completed, working with white liner U Wa! wrapped in chamois skin until placed Il | the car The gold plating work on thl | car is the largest job of its kind eve undertaken. It had to be pure gold, 0 1 it would not have worked, as the elec trollis in gold plating recognizes no al l Joy and only pure gold is used
 BUILT TO RUN Tn order to run this car, all that l | necessary is to fill up'' and let her SC l It is built to run, as well as to snow I We are asking all who can come to SC | the car in the day time to do so as 1t l rather difficult in most places where l have. exhibited the car to handle tn | crowds in the evenings satisfactorily r | Flint. Mich, we had to limit the mum | Der at night. so large were the croWus' l concluded MT. Huge.
 The large plate glass mirror that l placed under the chassis Of the ca l on the floor allows anyone to thorough | inspect the entire mechanism Of the ca | from the bottom without even stoopin | down. This is undoubtedly the pretties I part of the car. The whole car is fin | ished in white and gold and is the mos ! beautiful thing ever placed on fou l wheels.
 R. D. Maxwell. owner of the R. l Maxwell company, is very much please l with the hundreds of callers who hay l visited his place to see the car so Ia l and extends cordial welcome to throughout the week Stationed In th | lobby of the spacious and attractil salesroom of the new home of the R. I l Maxwell company, the Gold Car" make | beautiful showing.