Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-05-10
THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY
HOME GARAGE WEEK
GIVE YOUR CAR "A HOME

the United States or one to every te
people. Putting this another wa!
there are about two automobiles
every five, families.
Most every family owning an az
tomobile keeps it in their Home GaI
age.
When they buy car they get a
instruction book, telling how to oper
ate and care for the automobile.
But when the average motoris
builds a Home Garage he has m
guide about the care of this Hom
Garage or Instruction book to tel
him what he should keep in thi
Home Garage.
And so 1t has come about tina
most Home Garages are little more
than covered parking spaces for the
automobiles they contain.
But this very unfortunate condi-
ton is expensive for the motorist ano
bad for the automobile.
Suppose a housewife were to run
her Kitchen on the same basis thai
her husband runs his Home Garage
She would buy stove and then from
meal to meal have to go to the
| butcher, grocer or the vegetable man,
for the food for that one meal. That
is the way supplies are bought for
the automobile, from trip to trip.
| Go into the average living room
and you will find tables, chairs, rugs
on the floor, reading lamp handy,
magazines and books, probably some
smoking materials, maybe a fire
place with wood, ready to use.
Go into the dining room-the
dining room table, the chairs, the
table covering, silver, dishes, glass
ware, all ready to be used.
Down Ia the cellar-the furnace,
the coal bin, the wood pile, the tools
for the garden, ash cans, q hose, all
ready to use.
All over the house is the equip
ment and the supplies not for single
trip, but for whole year, a life
time perhaps.
Now let's SO back and look in the
garage again. There is car stand
ing on the floor. A couple of worn
out tires thrown against the side OF
the wall. Perhaps af we empty cans
that formerly. contained oil. Maybe
there is a work bench, but generally
there isn't. Possibly there are a few
tools, but generally there are not.
How much better it would be II
this garage contained few supplies
that the average motorist would need
not for a single trip, but for season
"a few of the tools that he would
use, not once, but perhaps during his
lifetime.
Just for example, here's a list
of things that are missing from the
average Home Garage, which ought
to be available for simple adjust
ments or repairs.
Screw drivers, wrenches, a little
home vulcanizing out fit, tire chains,
extra links, an extra tube or two
/ spare tire. lamp bulbs, spark plugs
few grease cups, supply of iubrf-
eating oil, soap for removing grease,
stiff brushes for washing the wheels,
sponges, chamois.
These are just few of the essen
tials that go to make Home Gar
age something more than a mere
store house for an automobile.
The average motorist will find
them useful There are many more
things that he may need, not in
cluded in this list.
Checkup in your own Home Gar
age and see what you really have on
hand. See if the things described
IN the above list are there. If you
haven't them, go to any reliable
dealer in your town and make it a
business of equipping your Home
Garage. You will find it will save
you in many ways.
Another thing many of the supplies
you should have in your Home Gar
age would be available to take along
in the car on your trip.
Then you won't have to stop SO
frequently for supplies. When you
have a puncture you have a repair
outfit in the car to fix the tube Or a
spare tire on back ready for use.
You can fill up the crank case with
oil when You start off so that you
won't have to buy it along the road.
You can carry an extra supply of
spark plugs with you in case one
goes bad. Yon will always have ex-
ira fuses for your ignition system.
You could make lamp bulbs part of
your car equipment
And back in the Home Garage you
will have all the tools, all the materi-
ais, all the equipment that you will
need for the minor repairs or adjust
ments that you can make yourself.
Another thing, in buying seasons
supply for your Home Garage. select
reliable dealer from whom Won
can get high grade articles at reason
able prices.
1t will help you avoid the gym,
dealer when off on a trip if necessity
forces You to buy new tube or an
other spare tire, SO as to continue ON
your trip.
There are number of reliable
dealers in your city. They would be-
glad to tell you some of the things
that you will find it profitable to |
keep in your Home Garage.
With this in mind MANY of tben,
are setting aside the week of Nav III /
TO May 18th as Home Garage Week
IN which they are making a feature
OF the supplies and equipment that
the average Home Garage lacks
Identifying yourself with re-
iiaDle dealer accomplishes two things
u secures high quality products for
y at reasonable prices and it makes
MN interested in you when Won noad
repairs or adjustments