Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-07-27
SAYS THE FORD rs NINTH
WONDER OF THE WORLD

A Ford auto, commonly designated
"a Tin Lizzie" is the ninth wonder Of
the world, In more ways than one.
At times it is the most accommodate
ing piece of mechanism to be found,
and at other times It is the most ag-
gravating and damnable piece of ma
chinery man ever saw. It has its
good traits and its bad ones, or in
other words 1t has its vices and its
virtues, just like human beings. 1t
is another DR.. Jekyl mad Mr.. Hyde
proposition, except a little more SO.
Whenever a Ford takes a notion to
leave the road 1t will leave the road
and when it takes a notion to run
through a barbed wire fence it will
do it in spite of H. When 1t
gets one of its playful streaks on, it
is liable to do anything from swim
ming river to climbing telephone
poles. The movie firms all use the
Ford in their scenarios, because you
can let them roll down steep, rocky
dec1ivities or run them off q high
precipice, or let a railroad train hit
them without doing any damage.
You can not hurt a Ford machine.
You can't break 1t, burn 1t up or
wear it out or blow 1t up with dyna-
mite. This is due to it's contrariness
and its cussedness and the good quail
ity of tin of which 1t is composed.
Now the foregoing remarks are based
upon practical experience, and not
upon theory or prejudice, which the
following story will prove.
Three of us started in a Ford for
Star Valley on the afternoon of Fri
day the 18th of July, which, by the
way, was the birthday of one of our
party, and / therefore named him
Friday. We went up Montpelier
Creek all right and reached the sum-
NIT at dusk. We turned on the lights
and started down the hill toward
Geneva, which is steep, and Just az
we started down our brake gave away
and our man Friday, who was driv.
ing, forgot his clutch and reverse
lever and we shot out and down the
hill with the speed Of a shootine
star. Finally we went SO fast that
our lights burned out, but the Ford
kept on its downward flight with 9
| logged persistency painful to behold
Barney Oldfield would have envieC
our speed If he could have seen vi
go, because we smashed the best rec
ord he ever made. We went about &
mile and q half before the Tin Liz
zie" stopped. We looked her over
as we'll as ourselves, but nothing
was damaged except the lights, anC
our friend Robinson Crusoe," whC
jumped from the car soon after i
started. He hit the mountain, pull
verifying a few boulders and tool
most of the hide from his good RICH
arm.
We again started out and went
short distance when Friday ran of
the dug way over an embankmen
about five feet high and landed il
the creek in two feet of water, wher
the machine remained all night. No
a thing was damaged. No one wa
hurt. Next morning It took fou
horses to pull Lizzie out on tn tn
road. We loaded up and then w
cranked the crank and she responde,
and away we went. She seemed bet
ter and run smoother than before he
jamboree. The only thing I was woT
ried about was that the Mayor OF &c
neva might have us pinched TO
speeding, but have learned sine
that we went so fast he couldn't Sc
US. Buy a Ford IL you want yoG
moneys worth. Buy Ford IL yo
want something to please you an
worry you forever.
One OF the Trio.