San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
GUARANTEE IS
SELLING THE.
NEW CHRYSLER
Frank Hagan Places W. P.
Chrysler's New Car on
Local Market.
MANY NEW FEATURES
Among the Outstanding
Selling Points Is
Its Motor.
MANY NEW FEATURES


Crysler's new offering to the motor
ing public, is being placed on the
local market Monday by the Guar
antee Motor Company. Frank Hagan,
president, is taking great pleasure in
demonstrating and displaying q num-
Der of the models. Judging from a
large number of orders already plac-
) ed for the new Chrysler Six, the car
doubtless is becoming one of the most
popular motor vehicles on the market.
One Of the outstanding features of
this new automobile 10 its motor.
Chrysler engineers make definite claim
that friction in the Chrysler motor has
been reduced to the lowest point ever
Known in q stock engine.
Several models of the Chrysler Six
win be on the display floors of the
Guarantee Motor Company Monday
morning and demonstrations will be
made for prospective buyers. Numer-
Gus tests have been made by Mr..
Hagan and be as we'll as the lucky
passengers accompanying him., are
convinced that the Chryler is a won
der automobile. A bill-clinibing TEST
made by Mr.. Hagans last week with
one of the stock cars showed what the
Chrysler could do on one of San An.
tonio's steepest hills. One passenger
during the test and short ride which
preceded it, tells the story OF his
ride. He says:
That Elevator Feeling.
Beginning at the Guarantee Motor
Company's building on Romano
street we Travelled to Breckenridge
park and Alamo Heights. With Frank
Hagan at the wheel we were whisked
away and as we came to a sudden
stop for busy corner we all had a
feeling similar to that which you get
when riding in the elevator of the City
National Bank building. Don't get
excited counseled Mr.. Hagan, it's
just the four-wheel brakes working.
Before we knew it Hagan damned the
car into second and was running at
the rate of around 40 miles an hour
saying to us all the time that this
is nothing, ! have had her at 80
in second Again he tested his four
wheel brakes and we experienced that
elevator sensation again just before
we narrowly escal,,1 being thrown
into the front seat by the car coming
to the sudden but smooth stop. The
next thing we knew Hagan was run
ming the car at q tremendous rate
of speed. He told US that he was go
ing to turn corner without slowing
up and we oil began to think of all
the bad things we had ever done in
our lives--as you will, you know on
those precarious occasions. But the
car turned the corner and to our sur
prise we hardly knew it. you forget
you are in Chrysler boys! yelled
Hagan.
"By this time we had reached Brack-
enridge park and Hagan had asked
us how fast we wanted to ride around
the Alpine drive. Hardly before any
one had time to reply Mr.. Hagan
was calling our attention to the man.
ner in which the car was performing
as it began climbing the Alpine hill
in high gear. Slowly the car ascend
ed with seemingly no effort whatever.
Then Hagan stepped on the gas and
the car fairly shot out. We rounded
that first curve on the hill while
travelling at a tremendous rate of
speed and the bottom of that sunken
garden sure did look far away.
Test On Argyle Hill.
"Our next real thrill came when
Mr.. Bagan began climbing the Argyle
nill in Alamo Heights in high gear.
Beginning at the foot of the hill in
high, having come to a dead stop, the
driver stepped on the gas and the car
began climbing the steep hill imme-
iatoly without so much as a single
jerk. One of the four passengers
had q watch in his hand and when
We arrived at the top of the hill going
at the rate of 40 miles an hour he an
nounced 10 us that he had made 'er
in 40 seconds
"The next time Mr.. Hagan shifted
the car into second and without run
ming start he stepped on the gas at
the foot of the hill and up shot Wal
ter p. Chrysler's wonderful pi-ce OF
mechanism. In second we averaged
IS miles an hour up that hill. We
made it in 20 seconds in second gear.
But this wasn't enough. Mr..
Hagan would not be satisfied until
he had shown US how il would per-
form over rough roads. He selected
what he thought were the toughest
roads in that section of the. city and
again he stepped on the gas. Were
we shaken up? Well not so as you
could notice it. That Chrysler held
the ground as if it had been glued to
it and as the motor sang its way
over the rougher portions of the north
ern extremities of Broadway four
passengers had been convinced that the
ear was everything Walter p. Chrys-
Ter intended it to be-,
Describing the Chrysler local dis.
0ibutors say.
"A centrifugal type Of air cleaner
purges all the air taken by the car