Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-06
MOTOR CARS

Rencarnation is an evolutionary
theory that may be humanity true.
With automobiles it is, decidedly.
What becomes of the old, worn ont
cars after they are dismantled and
the metals cast into crucibles in the
big foundries?
This is what happens: They are
transformed, coming back to new own
ers In the form of super sixteens"
for pleasure and quad titans" for
work and representing all of the other
automotive members of the big fam
lily.
Not each individual automobile
passes through the chrysalis stage. to
be sure. But great groups of them are
pooled and furnish basic metals for
vast numbers of new cars, trucks,
tractors, airplanes, motorcycles and
kindred machines.
Then, too, old rattletraps alone do
not furnish all of the metal necessary
in the manufacture of new cars. Man
ufacturers say they are yet too few.
Iron mines must yet be plundered.
Makers do look forward to the day,
though, when an owner can give up
his worn iron horse to the melting
pot In return for a new car with an
additional payment to meet manufac-
turing costs.
Some such system is in vogue in
many Minneapolis salesrooms already.
Many used cars that lack the energy
to continue usefulness are taken as
part payment on new ones. These are
junked, parts sold to keep others Of
the same type from similar fates and
finally, when no more loose parts re-
main, the melting pot gets them.
Reincarnation has made at least 100
models obsolete. 1t has wiped out
virtually all Of the home made prod
uts, with few exceptions. One OF
these, still defying the inevitable, is
Minneapolis first local product-Nora.
Nora Is now a cement mixer, still
disturbing the peace and dignity Of
Olivia, MINI. She was the brain
child of Michael J. Bowling, Mime
sofas noteworthy cripple, who de-
signed her in 1900 and became the talk
of the town when Nora made her debut
For many years bowling coaxed the
car over hills and wales and inciden-
tally became a famous pedestrian. Ht
was known in the old days as the Ed
ward Payton Weston of Olivia. OPP
portunities came to exercise his me.
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mysteries of carburetion and ignition
/ that amazed even the blacksmith who
forged Nora.
Dowlin's Nora became the first aut,
truck of Olivia in 1909, when a riva
came out from Detrit and made com
petition super-strenuous. Now sh
may be found chewing her "cud" o
cement and rock in the vicinity Blu
Bowling fears daily that the spirit o
auto reincarnation will lure her ava,
to become some composite of Super
Sedan or perhaps twin-two F'livvel
Like the worm in the cocoon, whic
must have turning, cars pass throug
various vicissitudes before returnin
in butterfly magnificence. After
few seasons they become used car.
then second hand cars, trucks and fl
nally the junk graveyard entomb
them.
Many machines become snortins
laundering speedsters and escape tn
truck existence after they pass til
secondhand stage, a Minneapolis de
signer and builder of speed models eN
planned. But in the end they submit
In war-wrecked Europe. few sea
sons ago the junk pile automobi
went into French seventy-fives. "dt
CROSSE. ,Berthas" and into shell-foo
~ ntil the tragedy Of nation