New Britain herald., 1929-11-06

car was under construction for three months. being built in secret, but made its first public appearance yesterday.
 Seventy-one inches long, the car is fl inches from center 10 center of the front tires. IL is d tWo-pas- senger, sport model roadster with d N-shaped windshield. Some Of the parts are salvaged from automo- piles, airplanes, plumbing fixtures, etc, while other features are the special design worked out jointly by Discenza and Nelson.
 The car while equipped with a standard gear shift of three speeds forward and one in reverse, needs nothing lut high gear, Disccnza told a reporter. Offering to prove it, he staged a demonstration. Starting from a dead stop in high gear the car attained speed of 50 miles an hour in less than 100 feet. Police men stopped and looked. Specta- tors all along the street gazed There were many smiles and not a few good natured jibes. Be careful you don't get caught admonished one policeman, who was conveniently out Of sight at the proper time. Two bluecoats stood on corner. The light was amber Never mind the light; bring that bicycle over here to the curb til we look it over" they ordered. Swinging under the noses of the larger cars, Discenza obeyed orders.
 They laugh, but this is what we must come to- he said Traffic conditions are becoming so much of a problem that we need a car with a faster getaway, a quicker pickup and one that requires less space for parking. This car will do anything that a motorcycle will do. I'm going to Boston in it Saturday and I'm going to do a saucer up therc.'
 The vehicle has a four cylinder, 70 horse power motor. It runs or specially built 24X4-inch wheels, us- ing regulation 26x5-inch airplane tires. It has four and a half inch road clearance and will do 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a cut-out that sounds like a competi- tive duet between two airplanes and 6 stone crusher, but the inventor says that has been corrected so that the car will run quietly. The gas tank has a capacity of five gallons. It has a regulation water cooled motor and fan, except that the fan 1 has only two blades and looks like a model airplane propeller.
 The car went to Hartford today l for it's first coat of paint. When the paint dries the inventor plans to take Mayor Walter Patterson of Hartford for ride.
 In the demonstration today the 1 inventor proposed to show the re- 1 porter what "a real car can do." He drove along Arch street, turned into Grand street and, withou. shifting, was doing 45 miles an hour going , over the hill. q can do better than that, something that never was tried before" he added Swinging back to Grand street he drove to where | Camp street intersects. Here he came to a dead stop. Starting in
 high gear up the steepest part of the hill again without shifting, he
 was going 40 miles an hour when
 lie passed the hospital.
 I'm going to enter it in a hill
 climbing contest against motorcy- cles." he added.
 Although it has not been decided
 whether an attempt will be made to build the car on commercial basis, Mir, Nelson says 1t can be | built to sell for not more than S400.
 I'm going to design another one,
 just as small. with a front wheel l drive" added Discenza