Arizona republican., 1919-05-11
WELCOME RETURN IF ;.
 TIE NOTED GOLD GAR

Captain Kidd, that adventurous spir- it who flourished and waXed rich 9t the expense of the shippers of slow going brigs of other days, lived before his time. His piratical antics were as childs play to the later murderous | capers of his eX-imperial majesty $ 1 slinkiing, slimy U-boats. Captain Kidd was not adverse to using his cut lass when occasion required, or some old salt remonstrated with a belaying pin, but he cherished gold rather than the blood of his victims. Yet since he took up his abode with Davyy Jones, succeeding events have shown up the old rover of the seas as a hopeless piker His much touted treasure, if it
 ever turns up, would be like so much
 ballast compared to the possible loot
 in the cargoes that cross the seas today
 Take the famous gold car, for in
 stance The old captain would have turned over in his watery grave could he have sighted the Pacific Mail liner
 carrying this precious car of gold across the briny deep. Such a golden l prize would have made any pirate
 crew scuttel ship with great glee and much rejoicing.
 | Not that tho gold car has not taken l it's chances at sea. It has, and many of | them, too, since it bade adieu to Amer 1 ican shores in the fall of 1917. Ac | claimed as the sensation of the 1917 | American automobile shows, after
 travelling from one end of the United States to the other, Australasia be-
 came mighty curious and demanded it's exhibition in the eastern hemi- l sphere And so, heavily insured and | guarded, it went overseas. What was
 a sensation at home became a super sensation abroad. No other motor car
 ever displayed in the antipodes at
 tracted so many thousands of admir-
 ing people to it's side. It soon became
 a favorite topic of conversation with
 press and public alike.
 But the gold car is home again. It
 has made it's last journey-through
 be-trotting forever. It arrived in
 South Bend, Indiana, last week direct
 from San Francisco where it was un- |, loaded from a Pacific Mail steamer , For the benefit of posterity it will { henceforth repose in all its golden . splendor in the famous museum main 2 tained by the Studebaker corporation
 in it's administration building at South Bend.
 X The gold car. a stock Studebakel I touring car, finished in 24carat gold l and pure white enamel, was first ex- l hibited at the New York automobile l show in 1917. All metal parts of the r car and chassis were finished in glis- I tening gold to exemplify as would bt s possible in no other way the clean GU f assembly, simplicity and mcdaniel @ excellence of the cars. Other parts O Y the car, not metal, are enameled pur, e white. The upholstery and Victoria t top are made up of pure white kiC
 leather. The effect is dazzling and ont | not to be soon forgotten. It is inter y esting to note that special electro s plating equipment and vats were re Il quired to handle the finishing of tn gold car And as it stands it is prob = ably the largest gold plating job eve V turned out in this country.
 # The gold car was really the evolution
 of the gold chassis, another Stude t baker creation and likewise an auto s mobile show sensation the year pre- IT vious. This exhibition feature is nov 1t touring South America but, upon it Le return to American shores, will also b d permanently located in the Studebake s Museum where many interesting ve st hicles, from Lafayette's old carriage ( n state to the beautiful and ultra moder > new Studebaker seven-p passenger big re six motor car, serve to graphically dc l. pict the gradual evolution of transpoi
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