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CAN YOU SHIFT ALL GEARS
WITHOUT TOUCHING THE CLUTCH PEDAL? YOU CAN IN THE 1932 BUICK
Can you have either Free Wheeling or Conventional Drive al will-instan- taneously--to meet vary- ing driving conditions?
THE WIZARD CONTROL
Can you sweep over the road at 80-plus with that feeling of absolute solidi- ty and security of the Torque-Tube Drive and an
Can you enjoy a truly silent second extra-rugged finely balanced chussia?
́speed as
301
well ILM acerireation
hour before forly miles hifting noiselessly into high?
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Can you choose your ride by means of Ride Regulator to assure greatest comfort according to rond conditions, number of passengers and ear speed?
Buick
You can in the 1932 Buick
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1932.
MOTORING ADVICE.outlast any that was free to begin
How to Make a Car
Live Long..
PERSONAL
with, and! at the end of its Infantile troubles after 500 miles.
EXPERIENCES..8,000
WILN
Personal Experience. That is a serious statement, I realise, but I lave personal ex- perience to back it. My own ear, just on four years old, was not really free until it had done about
miles, although IL perfectly safe to drive it at sixty miles an hour or more long before then. It is now running better (By John Prioleat.)
than it was when it wng 35,000 If it is a truism that, there is no miles younger, more quietly, more za 1t more critical and important period flexilily, and with more
a trace of vibration- In a car's life than its first 1,000 never had
It is miles, it is no more so to say that period, and it has tone now.
built the consel, so earnestly and aina heautifully-designed and cerely given by motor manu-cor, but I attribute at least some facturers and others on thin sub of my satisfaction with it to my!
own care of it. jeet, receives less attention than any advice at the disposal of the owner of a new car. AL about this time of year new models are to be met with in considerable numbers, and those with a senst- tiv michanical ear and a feeling for suffering machinery, must the At the courage of wonder average motor manufacturer,
Unless you have paid a good dent of money for your new car. its treatment over the first 1,900 miles of its life on the rond will, in nine cases out of ten, definitely decide It fate--whether it is going be a govt or a bad ear. an econutical choire or A mere money-trap. A few minute' weed- less driving when the nstine sit tight will row the seeds f incurable dirense, encrasies repair bilbe, and general hatred the you have seen them you would not
1 it to be wondered believe in the variety and number| that manufacturers dread deliver of foreign bodies that can be left ing new cars to unknown buyera" A hardly-won international reputa. tion, the reward of years of costly
tr experiment, Bay seriously damaged by the callous ignorance of a dozen drivers,
The Worst Perini.
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The main preoccupation of the conscientious owner of a new ear| IN the combined question of engine load and lubrication. To the nafest take the second first, rule, particularly if the car been delivered from the works and not taken over from there by the owners, is to begin by emptying the sump and filling up with new oil. It is a nuisance, but do the same thing to the gear-box and backaxle, and make perfectly cer tain
that every Krense-point throughout the chassis is doing Ita work. Then you will start fair with knowledge that may save you much worry and futile speculation. I would go further, myself, and flush out the petrol tank, especial
Until ly in a mass-produced car.
in a new tank.
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new
Clunge the engine-vi} at 500, 1,000, and 1,500 miles, and there! after at the intervals recogimend-i
by the makers. Be very enre
oil-level ful indeed to keep the
.1 ail times. carrert engine is often twice as thirsty The owner of a new ear, whe as a fit on. Use a good brand of ther it cost £150 or £500 or even light oil in the fuel, for lubricat-
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The twice that amount. should never ing
per nlves forget that not only are the first exlinders and the valve-guides. thousand miles (1-would prefer to There are several reliable brands the market. This, a ronpara- way 5,000 in nearly every case) the
reti most diflicult for both car nudivaly modern nution, is owner, but that doring at least importance in high-speed engines: Die first 3,000, the ear is running at all times, but particularly when i worse than it is ever likely to they are new. until it in beginning to wear out. Be prepared for disappointment in inny ways. A car with and very stiff engine and general running-gear can put up a very por performance indeed in com- arison with the, showing of its sisters with ten or twenty thou-spectacular
with the throttle full open, elings) sand miles to their debit. Except in such a manner that it is dolag when you have Irrefutable proof
light work. of something radically wrong. betrayed in most cases by undue heat or noise or both, be content to endure, An engine that was very tight when new and has been painstakingly run-in, perhaps over four, five, or six thousand miles, is an engine that will certainly
#new
ONE
BATTERY
„TEN
in
needs a recharge Does Yours?
An undercharged bat. tery will turn over the motor but it's burning itself up, is short lived and may go dead sud- denly. Be safe and let us test your battery. Drive in regularly and takead- vantage of our free
service.
Firestone
BATTERIES
How to Drive a Now Car. Last, and most ingorta of all, do not, in any circumstances, pat)
Jund on the a heavy or sudden
engine. That is to say, drive it as gently as possible, never with; acceleration. Rever
INDIA TYRES
(Manufactured at Akron, Ohio)
MOVE IN THE BEST CIRCLES
BY USING
HEAVY SERVICE. GREATER
Spood with safety. Roadsbility.
Cushioning with more uninterrupted servico.
EACH OF THESE POINTS Represents a
SAVING
OUR NEW DEVELOPMENT
HEATPROOF AGE
人
GEPROOF LEAKPROOF TEARPROOF
AND
CHAFEPROOF.
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TIRES
INDIA ALL-BLACK
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This object some a small new engine in such a way in this way. It is all a matter of makers try to achieve by imposing that the enr travels at forty miles feel. If it runs easily, Jighty, and small throttle- up opening, ils probable that com- high engine-speeds. It is also com- (always a quarter-throttle)
speed-limit of twenty, twenty-an hair without harm-merely be vagerly with tive, or thirty miles an hour for n cause the speed is worked given period, others by mechanical gradually and the engine is always paratively meanu, such BR restriction of well over its work.
twenty-five vou must trent it very gently throttle-opening of inlet. The paratively easy to ruin another by safe. If it wants "stoking." then ast two methods should be success-Hogging it along at
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ful, but 1 have 4 se fr the miles as hour. because, in that indeed, and possess yourself in first, because it does not go far particular case the bearings are patience until, perhaps 5,000 miles enough and sometimes it gres too much stiffer and everything in that later, when it frees itself. This precaution will pay you henry It is not the roud-sped that engine is being hammered.
"It is not difficult to discover what dividends just when you most need matters, but the work the engine: has to do. It is possible to drivel treatment your new engine needs them--when the car is old.
far.
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