Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11
"a. 1ss-sizing Up Other Cars.

the ma rRet to know what each will do
in the way of performance ana give
| in the lirM df service. ..,.,,
This was the conclusion Smuh
reached after recent observation test.
| II began when l called attention 20
| the way the treads of tires were wear.
ing on cars that still used two wneel
brakes.
You've been wondering whether
good four-wheel brakes save rubber,
I reminded him. We'll, here Is your
answer. Just compare the tires on
| the various cars as we go along.
| There is a car with 1000 miles on tns
speedometer. Obviously the Original
| set Of tires is before you, ana eacn
| tire Is on it's original wheel. Yet note
the way the rear ones are worn. me
ma rticular design of this. car ana ine
ARRANGEMENT of the braking control y
such that drivers tend to brake NOR
| than is necessary I'm not crillcl1lis
tha design If the car, but If you are
Interested in knowing how the tires
wear with 1t, here is your answer.
Test Car With Brakes.
"If vol, were going to buy this car,
after seeing what you see, think you
would he sensible enough to learn 10
amply the brakes in greater !moaera'
ton. That is one of the real aovan
tages in knowing as much as posslo,v
about all cars. 1t helps you h I,s
how to adjust yourself to the car 'nA'
you own. - !.
aoi,inped with four.wheel brakes ana
Vet very much the same condition ex.
! isted with respect to tire wear. IL was :
annarent that this was the result OF
nneoual brake action. This sug.
gested two possibilities: either the
1rakes were inherently bad In design
ar the owner. was neglecting them
We quickly discarded the iaIter alt ~,
native when we noted the rest y Lne
car. 1t was spic and span, ana tnsIu
was every indication that " Went ~
| the service station Tor reguiar ~
tention. -,
conclusions from individual cases,
suggesting the advantage OF Das.
| inc results upon averages. Wnen
| a oar Is struggling to make certain
/ hill in high gear, 1t STANDS 70 Tehsvn
| that there may be many things the
matter with il other than general IN
4 sariority. It's driver may be duD.
| p,,t n out of 10 Of those cars pe'
have the same way, one does not
1 have to buy one to find out what y
1 will do in the way Of hill performance
/ Each make of car has It's pecumaTi
| ties. Now and again some one VIII uS
/ fortunate enough to obtain one WIZ
these peculiarities less pronoun4eu.
| Rut If his praise of the car Is taken
/ as rule that applies to the Wnole
4 family bearing that trade name, one
1 is noakinR the same mistake as IN In
ferrinp faults in design from mol
/ yif,,al instances. For some queer
/ roc SON there is a tendency to discount
tina great difference between cars tha'
would seem to be identical In design
but those differences exist never
| theless.
| lar make of car has been sunJect -
an annoying popping PACK tnIousl
| Sticking valves were an annoyance
/ for nearly as many years. Many own
Gre of the cars, and of course tins
trade interested in selling It.. denied
anv such general characteristics, Du'
| the observing motorist like smith
| could make up his mind about ~
| easily enough. These cars can q
heard in the pangs Of starting any
hours of the day in q city. ana
one were sitting by the road near ~
/ ton Of a Hill in the days when tnese
cars were having most Of their trou
BILE with sticking valves one couIo
! hear them running on five cylinders
/ instead Of the full six.
story in Acceieration.
"Acceleratiofl.' told Smith. rs tne
i simplest matter of all to determine.
/ In traffic every one is trying to get o.
i Won. and il you will. note the makes
i of cars that are getting by and thos'
that fail you will have q splendid PIC
ture of their relative virtues in TIM
respect. A thing that makes this tes
40 accurate is that most drivers forc'
their engines. seldom retard tn.
spark and step hard on the gas wnen
ever they want to get by. In othel
words. they give their engines AZ
they have and II there Is no respons'
YOU can make up your mind the car
| in question are, as class, slow.
i Observe also the great difference
between models. often there IS 2
1 much difference between this year
model and last as there 10 between
makes of cars. Another interestinl
feature is the difference in perform
ance between open and closed JOBS Q
the same make.