Arizona republican., 1918-07-07
UMONTOWN HILL
 BECOMES NOTHING
 ID MAN IN b|G SIX

American motorists in general, and those hardy souls who have eXper- fenced all of the joys and thrills of touring in the east, are thoroughly familiar with Uniontown hill. Ever since the earliest days of the industry, Uniontown Hill has been in the lime light. Many of the most famous hill climbing contests on record were held there and, for these many years, it has proved the nemesis of all motorists passing that way.
 Many proud owner who has pride fully boasted of the many achieve ments of his car has been obliged to chalk up large demerit marks against it's performance at Uniontown Hill.
 Back in the dim distant past, when automobiles were "horseless carriages ' Uniontown Hill proved to be too hard nut for any ambitious "one lunger to crack. And it was u-,ite sometime be- fore automobile engines reached that state of perfection where they could take the motor car over Uniontown Hill even at a snails pace. For. let it be known, Uniontown Hill is three miles long. with an abrupt elevation of fourteen hundred feet in that dis | tance.
 It is generally supposed that no mo- tor car ever pulled that mountain in | high gear. Autoists, in whose path | Unlontown Hill obtruded, have always | found 1t matter of necessity to shift pack into low gear to make the climb | Comes now however. one F.. c | Kicks, who makes his home in the city Of Uniontown, claiming the honor of l O IrNr he
 the famous hill "in high" Driving a new series 19 Studebaker big six from the Detroit factory he merely took advantage of the splendid opportunity to give his new car the supreme test
 When I reached the base of the mountain road. the big six was idline along in high at 20 miles an hour : writes MT Kicks. in recounting his ex. perience to Studebaker officials
 Without shifting a gear, and without varying the speed of the car two mile, one way or the other. the Studebakel went unfalteringly up the steep. hart pull and over the top. The engin, showed absolutely no sign of laborinp- and you could lay your hand on in, radiator without any discomfort"
 He concluded his letter bv savin, that other motorists at the ton of th, hill. who' had stopped to give tbei radiators a chance to simmer down were incredulous. They couldn't be lleve their own eyes when they say the Studebaker come purring m +b mountain road in high gear. So. fo their benefit. enthusiastic MT. Ricl, obllglngly repeated the performance with the incredulous ones as passen gers and observers
 But the story does not end here-an, the intrepid Uniontown motorist doe not receive the coveted honor. Hi : disappointment. however, will h easler to take in the knowledge tba
 those honors do not in the least de
 tract from the glory of his cars Der romance It was not his car, but a ; exact counterpart nevertheless. tha first dashed up the mountain road i
 high gear.
 , When original models of the ne, l Studebaker cars were driven 1000 miles over the country roads an through the mountains of the Unite States and Canada, as a preliminar
 to the most rigorous test known 10 a1l tomobile history. UniontoWn Hill wa included in their itinerary The hi six displayed it's prowess as a hi climber then, when it went over th top in Thigh" and without any appar ent effort. Fact is, occupants of tn
 car did not realize it was the famou old hill they had climbed until the
 were well over the crest and on tn
 open road again.
 The climax of the test was reache
 when these new cars were put on th
 Chicago speedway for a SO.000 mi run through the worst winter weatht of half century. And this 40,00O mi
 test proved in striking manner tf
 inbuilt quality and durability of u
 new Studebaker cars.