The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-30

OOne of the busiest men At
Michigan Motor Sales, IS Crock
er boulevard, is Service Manager
Marlin Duff. Already, many
people are coming in to have
their cars "winterized," as this
weather around here is liable to
give us big gift of some snow
before long. Someone once re-
marked about Michigan wealth
err: IF you don't like it, wait fiji
teen minutes"
Another inducement to
prompt attention is the lack of
anti-freeze in many cities. Louis
Mihal beat the gun on this,
though, as he has-snugly put
away in the service supply room
"a goodly supply of Thermo-
royal, popular anti-freeze. Be-
fore the winter is over, anti
freeze solutions may be the
hardest thing to get in town, due
to national defense demands.
can interesting development
from the drain on experienced
auto mechanics from many deal
ers' agencies is the establishment
of a mechanics school by the
Pontiac dealers. Under the pro-
gram worked out with the ap-
prevail of the OPM and the Ma
tional Automobile Dealers As
ISOLATION 453 new Pontiac me-
chanics are now in training.
The demand for mechanics has
not affected the local situation
greatly, although dealers in the
Eastern states report a great
need. 1t is expected, however,
that as national defense activity
increases, more of the trained
mechanics will be in greater de-
mand in the factories.
To anticipate that need, the
Pontiac dealers schol will con-
tinue to train a large number of
men.
Priehs Sales, 1O3 Macomb, is
the local agency for the Pontiac,
and by the way, the 1912 models
are on display in the showrooms.
They are fine looking cars.
OTalking with Harvey Hotch-
kiss, salesman for Berridge Nash
Sales and Service, 143 North
Gratiot, the other day, and a dis
cussion started over four-coil
springs, Harvey claiming Nash
was the only low-priced car hav-
ing this feature. We didn't think
so, and called in were several
other experts. Opinion differed.
but today the column received
correct. The controversy is here
by ended.
incidentally, Harvey sold his
first car by stressing the three
features of the Nash: air condi-
tioning, four-coil springs (here
they are AGAIN. and low gas mile
age. Like all statesmen he got
more of a lift from selling this
one because it was His First, and
because the customer actually
was interested in another car.
Clinching argument: with Is
years of experience, Nash builds
good cars that stand up"
o.
cit certainly is fine and dandy
to work in an automotive deal
ers showroom, where you can
at least LOOK at those smart
1912 jobs, but when your hus-
band owns the joint >.
Mrs. Ann Copeland very soon
now will be sporting red-"not
quite as red as fire-truck-red"-
convertible, Plymouth, just as
fast as the engineers down in
Detroit can turn one off the as
sembly line.
Mrs. Copeland starts out each
year with a new one, which is
purchased through a local COM
pany: Copeland Garage, 200
South Gratiot.
o.
oKing Purton doesn't get back
to town very often, as he is on
the road most of the time buying
cars for his lot on South Gratiot,
next to Bowl-O-Drome. He did
manage to spend few hours in
the city Saturday, though, but
from what he said, his heart was
over at the u. M. State game
which he couldn't attend due to
the press Of business.
King points out second hand
cars are growing Increasingly
scarce, but he has about so mod
els on his lot at the present time.
o.
oJoe Fritz, service manager at
Powell and Schwartz, Is finding
out the inner workings of the
new Oldsmobile today at an all
day meeting of servicemen from
the Detroit area. The gathering
is at Webster Hall, where the
boys will break bread over the
festive board, and will talk ev-
erything but shop. Speaker at
the meeting is William Guckian,
zone service manager.