The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

little wavy place in the sand or something that would affect an or dinary speed about as much as it would to run over a match.
 When a car leaves the ground for from 50 to 100 feet after one of these above mentioned waves, think you are not out of place in saying 1t is flying.
 The recent records made by Haugh dahl are as follows:
 One mile. 19.97 seconds, or a rate of 1S0.27 miles an hour.
 One kilometer, 13.9 seconds.
 Five miles. 1 minute, .o2 sec onds.
 Ten miles. minutes and 56 sec onds.
 These records were made at Day tona Beach, Fla. against a slight wind and with beach conditions none too favorable. Formerly at Pablo Beach he had covered mile below 23 seconds and in faster time than Milton had made it.
 Last fall at Jacksonville he turned regulation half mile track for mile in 60 seconds and at Dallas last fall on a seven furlong tracl; he turned the eight forlongs, or one mile, in Al seconds. All are worlds records. International Motor Con tests association, the great governing body of dirt track racing, will oft- cially record them.
 At last the prediction of Bob Bur man has come true. He said before he made the worlds record of a mile in 25 1-5 seconds at Salduro, Utah, years ago, that an auto would so three miles a minute. Sig Ha1gh- dahi went even better than that
 Sig is well known in Birmingham and has raced at the state fair, which is evidence that some of the best talent races on the fair tracks
 Questions and Answers
 Dear Larry-What size ventura should use in a 11-2 plain tube caro' for a six cyl motor. Answer-You didn't tell me the size , of the motor Ventura sizes run about one-fourth or fifth of the size of the bore
 Larry-Give me a good valve set ting for a model IT Buick motor am using in a boat.
 Answer-The factory setting on this was as follows: Exhaust closes when piston has travelled past top center 1-16 of an inch. the inlet opens when the piston is 3-32 past top cen ter. This is with valves fully closed and ten thousandths clearance allow ed or the valve stem.
 Dear Stone-Which has the more power. kerosene or gasoline in mo- tor. Answer-It's hardly question or mower there my friend, It's more one of advantages and disadvantages Gasoline contains 18,000 B. T. H. U. to the pound. Kerosene contains 2z,- 900 B. T. H. U. The kerosene flasn noint being higher than gasoline mo- tors using it will have to work at a greater heat One of the questions is will your car burn kerosene. Larry-Give me Ford timing m inches not in degrees, l can use scale but am not much on d ciIo,e'
 Answer-Exhaus opens 5-16 before hottom. This equals 3S inches from the cylinder top. It closes on ion dead center Intake opens l-lo- inch past top center and closes s-lo- inch past bottom center. Automobile Don'ts
 Don't ever turn your steering wneei while the car is standing still unless the front wheels are lacked up. this | is very hard on q steering gear.
 Don,t stand on your starter for several minutes at time, little trys | ~ a few turns at a time are lol | Iess injurious to your battery ana will start the car just as quick.
 Under imitation. while bad for tires, is not as bad as overinflation. carry fire gage, you can't guess at the amount of air in a tire any more than YOU can tell how far frog can jump by looking at his back. Don't say Five gallons of gas and A quart of oil" Know what kind or oil is suited best to your motor and use it.
 l Don't let your car stand on hill and trust to the brake alone to holo | it. cramp your wheels in to the curb. It may save you buying new water plug in place of the one at the bottom of the hill.
 Don't be in so much of a hurry that you can't give your motor just few minutes of slow idling to warm II up when 1t is cold. You will be well paid for your time. Metal expands and contracts with heat and cold and your motor parts are fitted to run | correctly when warm. Don't forget that there is an ad- vance. and retard lever for the spark | on your car and use it when you hit | that hill and the motor starts to labor it is a big saving on bearings | both connecting rod and wrist pin. 1 Don't forget that the transmission and differential some times need their 1 oil replenished. not as often as some other parts but when they need 1t the need is just as bad don't entirely forget them.
 | | Don't put off the tightening of that loose nut you chanced to see. That's s what makes old cars out of new ones. 1 Don't try to pull all those hills no matter how steep on high gear. The ] first and second speeds were put in the car for something beside starting. Questions and Answers. 1 Dear Larry: What year was the Gardner put on the market, what 1 was their first model numbers.
 ST. CHARLES. Answer: 1920. Model G. serial numbers starting with one. Friend stone: Explain to me why