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Leak, Drip May Signal Trouble, Check Them Have you ever noticed the dirty looking areas cm concrete highways right between the paths thousands of wheels have traveled? Part of that dirt is grease and oil from oth­ er peoples' cars. On your driveway or garage flow, the same kind of dirty marks may be from your own car, and this can be a house­ keeping problem--particular­ ly painful if you have Just in­ vested in yards of new con­ crete for the driveway or if someone manages to stee in the grease, then 4rack it all over your brand clean carpet­ ing. Taking a positive look at this me$sy business, a leak or drip is a danger signal. When cars are new, they don't drip grease or oil. At least they shouldn't. But time, wear and vibrations take their toll on seals and gaskets. Think of all the parts that could be leaking: the engine, or the differential, the power steering, a brake cylinder, even a shock absorber. A spot of grease or oil under your parked car can mean you soon will have no lubrication on expensive gears such as In the rear axle or transmission. A drip can Indicate that raw gasoline is getting on your en­ gine (right next to 15,000 volts of electricity). This kind of thing spreads car fires. Tour car sounds a four- alarm alert, in its own quiet way, when the drips are leak­ ing brake fluid. This usually drips onto the inner surface of a tire; so you may not see it unless you happen to climb underneath your car to look. But your service station man can spot it when he has your car on the lift for service, which Is a good reason, among others, for getting the car up on the lift from time to time. If you see greasy or oily spots on the floor of your garage, on your driveway or your wall- to-wall carpeting, check Into things. Put some newspaper or large pieces of an old sheet you were going to tear up for rags anyway under your car's regu­ lar parking place. See how much grease or oil accumu­ lates overnight and approxi­ mately where the leak seems to be coming from. Next day, take your car and the evidence to your service man and ask him to fix things up. This can save your car, your money and even a life. Planning Long Trip This Winter, Then Give Car 'Shock Treatment' Planning to visit a distant relative over this winter? 'Sf#vv On Tnn f}f Counting the days until you %jn 1 °P w head for Florida (or a w«k or Weather9 Advice two? | Tour dreams of a beautiful To Motorists . . . Christmas could turn into a WED. SEPT. 3/1969 - PLMNDEALER- PG. 7 Suzie is going to flip over her and-servicing at your favorite new ski togs, we forget all auto shop. about one of the most impor- -- - tant parts of the whole vaca- AVOID EXTRA WEIGHT only answer is shock treatment tion trip: the faithful friend Motorists who put extra . . . new shock absorbers. This that will haul all of us there in the trunk of their car kind of control, plus generally stable, tight steering, is essen­ tial when you must drive over rutted, icy streets. Sometimes at this time of Ponce De Leon: Pride of our Merchant Marine A PENNY FOR YOUR SAFETY A tip to car owners -- invest a Lincoln penny in your fam­ ily's future. Why a Lincoln head penny? Insert a penny head first into the tread- grooves of each tire. If the head of "Honest Abe" can be ^seen, the tire has worn to a dangerous point and should be replaced. .<? In the past 20 years, the American Merchant Marine has slipped from first to eighth place in world shipping with the Soviets now ahead of us. A bleak picture? Perhaps. But brightening the picture con­ siderably is the gleaming white S.S. Ponce de Leon, which, as as the world's fastest cargo ship, is the new pride of the American Merchant Marine. American built and American operated, the Ponce de Leon sails the 1400 mile passage from New York to Puerto Rico at a 25.5 knot clip -- more than 40% faster than her competi­ tion, a speed, by the way. which is equivalent to 30 miles per hour on land. Operated by Transamerican Trailer Transport, Inc. (TTT), the Ponce de Leon is unique in more ways than one. Seven hun dred feet long from bow to stern, the (19 million vessel is longer than two football fields laid end to end. Or to use an­ other familiar landmark --Ion ger than two city blocks. Her bridge is ten stories above the water line. Unlike conventional cargo ships in which cargo is hoisted aboard, every bit of cargo go­ ing aboard the "aircraft carrier' type Ponce de Leon rolls on,on its own wheels through one of three huge steel ramps. Blink ing traffic lights direct traffic to one of five decks leading one ob­ server to call the unusual ves sei, the world's largest floating parking lot. In effect this makes the TTT vessel a "super ferry" which on each trip has space for 260 of those 40 foot trailers which are a familiar sight on any high way, plus 450 automobiles. Commented TTT's President R. D. Carter: Increase your daily intake of Vitamin D. Kindly take as directed: Settle back in a VW Sunroof Sedan. Slide open the roof and let the sunshine in. You can drive around for about 27 mi|es on a gallon of gas. No antifreeze. And oints, not quarts, of oil. .Go in '-•ood health. Crystal Lake Volkswagen, Inc. ® AUTHORIZED OEAUM BELTS SAVE LIVES 8eat belts do save lives. Studies of actual auto crashes by Investigators at Cornell University prove it. The Na­ tional Safety Council estimates that at least 8,000 to 10,000 lives a year would be saved if every motorist used a seat belt every time he got Into a car. nightmare if you should en­ counter snow as you mush over the river and through the woods to Uncle Charlie's house or that place in the sun you aim to claim ... if you are not prepared, that Is. Snow tires, studded tires or chains, a shovel, a bag of rock salt, plenty of antl-freeze (in your windshield washers as well as in your radiator), and {all the mechanical parts of your car working right can help you get through the worst weather with the least prob­ lems. Hidden Snow Hazard One of the hidden dangers of snow driving is the effect of snow packed by hundreds of wheels In a short time. Some­ times this forms huge bumps of ice. Hit a series of these Ice lumps at even moderate speed, and your wheels may start hopping. This can be the first step toward a hopeless slide. It is not uncommon to see a car in a snow drift or a ditch because the driver lost con­ trol on bumpy, packed ice. This danger is greatly in­ creased when your car's shock absorbers are weak. Because springs an'd tires want to bounce when they hit a bump, your wheels would hop up and down with every Irregularity Smart automobile owners make it a special point during fall and winter to "Stay on top of the weather.*' This means knowing in ad­ vance not only what weather conditions may be tomorrow, but what they are like in the area toward which the motor- ist is headed on a longer than "just about town" trip. It is the car radio, of course, that is your "any time*' pipe­ line to the wanted weather in­ formation, available from sta­ tions everywhere. , When on a trip, one should have no difficulty in picking up broadcasts from stations in areas toward which the motor­ ist is travelling. In addition to call letters they usually iden­ tify the city from which they are broadcasting. in the road unless they had some arresting force to keep them where they belong ... in contact with the surface of the highway. This is what shock absorb­ ers do -- or are supposed to do when they are working right. When they are worn, they are just going along for the ride. Essential on Ice So when wheels, or some­ times the whole car, seem to begin a bobbing motion, the and home again, hopefully without any problems. Before you set out on that trip for the big family get-to­ gether, or whatever else you for winter driving may do more harm than good. Extra weight disturbs the overall stability of a car and tends to lift the front end off the road surface. year we get so carried away have in mind for the holiday with all the excitement -- with season, give your car its Aunt Minnie's first fruit cake Christmas present early. Give of the season or the way Sister it a full treatment check up Styled with economy find spottiness On the Road ... Every­ body's Accident-Prone -- Drive Carefully. The frisky, sleek Chevy Nova Coupe Constantly gaining prominent position in the popularity polls is the Chevy Nova. Advaifeed st; features such as simulated front fender louvers and body striping give the Chevy Nova Coupe (abpve) an air of action. A bide-a-way antenna built into the windshield (with all factory installed radios) if now available on the Nova. The new Chevrolet line of cars will be on display September 18. 'What really makes the Ponce de Leon extraordinary is her versatility for the can take on board anything that rolls on U.S. highways today--and this includes giant cranes, cooling towers, sixty foot pipe, oils and chemicals, even General Motors buses and fire trucks." It is interesting to note that since the Ponce de Leon made her maiden voyage to Puerto Rico eight months ago. the roll- on roll-off concept, which she is pioneering, is spreading to glo­ bal sealanes. For example, two roll-on roll-off vessels are now being readied for Australia. R. D. Carter predicted: "Make no mistake about it-- the 32-35 knot cargo ship (con­ ventional cargo ships now aver­ age 19-21 knots compared with the Ponce de Leon's 25.5 knots) - will arrive within a few years and new building of fleets or new companies will give full consideration to our total roll- on roll-off concept as compared with the lift-on lift-off con­ tainer." Then Mr. Carter observed: "Both lift-on lift-off contain- erization and roll-on roll-off started in Puerto Rico following that plucky island's successful industrial boom. As the Amer­ ican Merchant Marine is cur­ rently leading in the container- ization race despite other dif­ ficulties, I think the American public owes much to the Puerto Ricans." A nd the TTT executive noted: "Moreover, the nearly three million Puerto Ricans buy morei of U.S. goods ($1.7 billion last year) than any other people abroad on a per capita basis, buying more on an absolute basis than 50 million French­ men!" 14 Wast of 31 ii Ives. HI 9:00 CRYSTAL LAKK 815-4597100 KARON ON CON-CON: 0 ifyouelect karon to con-con wl he work tot your pet cause? NQ Sheldon Karon will work for only one cause -- a better Constitution. Not better for Democrats, or better for Republicans, or better for labor or for business or hawks or doves or suburbanites or urbanites. Better for Illinois. The Constitution must not become a political instrument for special interest groups; nor a body of new laws. The Constitution is not meant to be the government. The Constitution has only one function: to permit government to function effectively. Period. Let the new Constitution establish the structure of the government. But let the government govern. Let Sheldon Karon go to Con-£on. Let him help build a better Constitution. Let him do it honestly, without political motives. Let Karon go with no promises to keep ... except this one: "I promise to use all my skill and experience as a constitutional lawyer to help build the best possible Constitution for Illinois." Sponsored by Committee for KARON for CON-CON. Howard Koven, Finance Chr., 913 Rollingwood, Highland Park. Illinois A