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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Sep 1931, p. 39

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Speeding throutgh li e intense hieat of a California desert night at more than 70 miles per hour, Ed Htglhe, a non -profess'ional driver, recently made ten new American Stock car records in a- Penn.zoil-Lubricated Willys Six roadster. One by' one the -records f el for distances of from 5 to 500 miles, as he rounded the five-mile surveyed coreat Muroc dry lake iin the Mo- jave desert, California., The run was made ýunder Amnerica n Automobile association sanction, su- pervision and timing. The Inotor wa.; kept running during the entire time, though four short stops.of about 1 minute each were mnade, for fuel. This time was included.iii the total hy A.* A. A. officiaIs. The ten new records establislied were: Five hundred miles in 7 lours- '6 minutes, 45 -seconds, at an average spedof 702988 miles per 11outir. Iow- eringthe formner record fo)r cars seil-, ing under $140,0 1w 6,21 iles per hour. The first 10 miles ini 8 mninuteis, 38.94 seconds at an* average speed ofi 69.3855'per hour. The first 100 miles in bne houi, 2.5 .minutes,- 12.65 seconids,ý an average, speed of 70.4136 miles iper.. hour. These- records were for Amierican stock car-s with piston dispiacemrent of fromn 183 to 305 cuhie inchies. The Willys Six. pistoni dispiacemnent is 193 cubic inches. Brauil Bros. 011 comipav, \Vini- netka, is niorthi shore disýtributor o)fl Pennlzoil. -Sugges-ts. How to Avoid' Labor Day Traffie Jam In view 'of prospects that a record, volume of, traffc will be on the. high- wvays during the two and one-haîf day holiday occasioned bv Iabor Day.' the tourig bureau of the Chicago Motor club issued some' suggestions whereby -motorists may escape congestion which may. occur on Saturday. and Monidav. Tests made wvith cars in thie lo-wer pr ice group to determine. the amnounit of gasoline waste cauised by old spark plugs, disclose that froin one and one-pint to twopits- of gasoline an hour are wasted. Que of the t ests showed that an average of 18.(e miles per gallon is obtained with niewv plug's as a gainst 16.75 miles lier gallon ,with spark plugs that had l>een in operation a little more than. 10.000 miles. The.results of the test's fo!lo<v NEFw PLIE;s M. P. H. Mles Per «lallon 20 10 >40> 50 60 Average Miles Per Galion OLUD 3f. P. H. 20 60 1 verage Miles. Per Gallon- 23.2 20.55 16.45 14.s 18.68 FL UG S Mlles Per Gallon 21.1 18.9 17.6 15.85 10.3 1Ë.j5 Save. Mileage Over Rerouted Highway WVith th'e expected opening of re- routed US-31 b)etNeeii Benton Hiar- 1)or aud South Haven ini about tenl davs, La-bor. Day traffic- into and out of the 'Michigani vacation area north .of,'the latter town will save 4.4 miles over the old route, according to the- touring bureau of the Chicago Motor CluLI). "The uew route is ail concrete. and folloivs in general the shore line of Lake Michigan, instead of heading uortheast,- or inland, to ~aevit as did the old route," the niotor clubl poiunted oût in a- bulletin. " The new highway runs through a rolling* region, ,potted by sand dunes; ac- cordingly, motorists using it ýinay look forward to a picturesque drive. -While a sho>rt detour will be in- e ffect for - some- three weeks just. north of- Benton Harbor, it will- be Driving a liew 'Plvniouth stock se- dan, L. B. 'Miller sped across the con- tinient and back, a distance -of 6,287 miles, in a total elapsed time of 132 bours anid 9 minutes, The previouis 6est -time by automobile ,was >167 hours, 59' minutes, according to offi- ciais.. Miller's average 'speed was 47.52 miles -per hour. and the average: number of miles traveled per day was. 1,140., He stopped- an. hour and 40 minutes'in New York after driv- ing f rom SanFrancisco in .65 liours- 33, minutes, then turnied back to reach San Francisco, in,65 'hours 24 minutes elapsed time. Plymouth and Dodge cars a re sold. in Winnetka by the Hanson' Motor companiy, 557 Chestnut street. We specialze in' Greasing and Washing-gîuve us a try! THRE OIL WL Bob 'n', Mac, PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY OFCHICAGO 925 LINDEN AVENUE, HUBBARI) WOODS Winnetka 3070 Greenloaf 6030 il Mai St atLinen ve.Phone Wilmàette 3334, S UMMER'S last holidey i.Laýlbor Day, and it tusans jusit hai to John. Now h.'. sorry hé didn't pur- chasé the new Chevrolet. e ecia Labo rDayOfrn mai Main, St0 nt Linden Ave. Winnetka. 3070

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