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MOTOR NOTES

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Barone had pointed out that the

The Marines gave him food and Near Altaquer death reached expenses of the trip could be met again for Barone-and took his some clothing, and much advice. by racing and stunting en route. mechanic. The edge, of a mountain They forbade him to continue over- The first of his races was entered in trail gave way and the car plunged land, and after he had cabled for Buenos Aires With it occurred the down the steep slope. Barone suffunds, saw him load his car on a Ars: tragedy of the trip. Comellifered a frightfully maimed hand bont and start up the const. Once was thrown from the car as it and lacerations about the face and past the Marine lines, he was scon i planged over the rough course, and body. Oresei was crushed so badly ashore again. killed.

Swamps and Jungles. Had 'Barone been able to visualize the hardships that lay ahead the trip would have ended right there. But denied such vision, he struck off with a new mechanic, Casimiro Scuderoni, Heading north from Buenos Aires, they soon reached the end of anything that faintly re- sembled roads. With nothing more than a compass, a rough cap, and the word of natives to guide them, they fought their way toward

Bolivia.

that death seemed inevitable. But At San Salvadore he was joined five miles up the mountain was 4 by Alfredo Massi, a boyhood as

Blinded by sweat and "quaintance.

Massi replaced his village. blood. Barone bore his suffering mechanic, who had had enough. companion to the cluster of huts Guatemala City, and then Mexico, No doctor, only a pricat, but by where he found roads once again, that time the priest alone was need and more bandits. ed. Barone and the prices buried the man the next day.

In Mexico Barone picked up his last mechanice. Harry Knauff, L

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Pennsylvanian who and come to WHIPPET FOUR BEATS BIG attraction among the cars in the

seek his fortune in Mexico. But he was homesick for "the north. He tegged what became the longest hitch-hike in history.

FIELD.

IN AUCKLAND RACES.

Since the introduction of the

original

The car was a wreck, crushed by boulders and half buried in the With the help of fallen rock. natives Barone literally took the car apart and carried it to the village. There, with his own kit and the aid of a local blacksmith, be re-built-

The Battered Car. Barone and his battered Stude- the car and went on,-again alone.

Another mechanic, Alesandro de In Torre threw in his lot with this taker crossed the border into the

Whippet four-cylinder miraculous midget of a man at Cali, United States at Laredo, Texas, Columbia. Together they struggled then followed a route through Okin model three years ago, it has estab- Travel was slower than ever. homa, Missouri, and Illinois to lished an outstanding reputation At length they reached Panama. South Bend, where he showed his for its speed, stamina and road The only way across the Isthmus car to the men who had built it ability. Even in its initial year it was by the water, or the tracks of seven years ago. From there he fol- was subjected to numerous tests in lowed the Lincoln Highway into stock car races and hill climbs it the Panama railroad. Armed with a

because of its remarkable, perform special running order as an extra New York City, to journey's end every section of the country, and

The worst part train," and accompanied by R. E. and a glorious welcome. Hopkins, Studebaker's Parama dis-. tributor who is an old time condue tor, Barone took to the ties. After months of the jungle it seemed a boulevard to Barone,

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lower priced field.

Not alone did it prove its auility to cope with cars even far beyond its price class but it continues to maintain the reputation it, kos held for three years in the foreign countries.

The latest accomplishment of“ a. Whippet Four was in three race against twelve other cars of both American and European make in a race programme at Auckland, N.E Eatered in three of the events, the Whippet Four captured two frste. and one second, even though pitted which had been specially equipped against six cylinder cars, several of

of the triptance, quickly became the centre cifer increased speed. The car that

(Continued on next Column.)

won the race in which the Whippet Anished second was an American built car of six cylinders, selling in the $1,500 price class.

or 15 miles.

Sometimes the way was open. More often they fought through the swaraps and jungles of the interior, literally carving their road before them with machetes. Clinging vines and lush undergrowth were the least of their enemies, for fever hand. stalked them at every Barone fought it off, while Seade- their course toward the Andes, Shrieking sirens of a motor-eyele At 34 he now locks back on a career rani slowly sank as they turned "police escort and congratulations as an aviator with the Italians dur

In spite of the higher altitudes, there were days of delirium during from Acting Mayor McKee of New ing the world war, then as stunt York greeted a wiry, little Italian driver, automobile racer, and one

which Barone's struggles with his race driver and aviator at the con- mau motor circus in Italy, companion were as racking as those

Batone makes a grimace and sy it was between Cuzco and the coast clusion of the first successful auto Spain, Brazil and the Argentine.required to move the car. mobile trip linking North and South The crowning stunt of his circus per-

La Paz became a goal which

of Peru, before reaching Lima. No roads, hardly even a mule trail for

#Barone bears many marks of his

The races were run ever a mile formance is a leap of death

meant the life of the mechanic

much of that mountainous journey, struggles. His right leg is badly Caught By Bandits, Jose Mario Barone, Pan American which he charges his car up a steep They crossed the Andes in the

He faced not only the antagonism scarred from the tumble in Colum-and a half track, the major event, left Rio de ramp, jumps a 30 foot gap, and lands barren, stony region of Tres Cruces, Central America offered more of the savage natives, but hunger Bin which killed his mechanic. which was won by the Whippet. trial blazer, who

where they were held up for two struggle through jungle and swamp. and possible failure through ex- There, too, he lost most of one Four, being a distance of 10 lape Janeiro more than two years ago

A Typical Latin.

daye by a blizzard. Finally they Much of the distance Barone drove haustion of his gasoline and oil finger, which was crudely amputed in a 1992 Studebriker Light Six

a burro ahead of him. If the supply. His oil, in fact, was ex- on the spot. As he was thrown out In the two races which the Whip- touring car, arrived in New York

He is a typical Latin-debonair, reached the city, but too late. on March 1. Nearly 20,000 miles ofiling, voluble, with a tiny silk Scuderoni never recovered from his burro sank in slime to his middle, hausted during one stage of this of the car he struck his forchear pet crossed the finish line ahead of plain and mountain, jungle and Italian flag sewn on his worn lea fever. Barone pushed on, alone, to Earone knew the car could not get terrible trip. But Barone discover against the windshield. The bridge the pack, it obtained the lead at desert, lay behind Barone as he ther driving helmet and another on

Progress during the first stage of through, and either cut a detour,ed that the Indians hoarded a sort of his nose was cut so deeply that the very start of the race because or made a new roadbed in which the of crudely refined pork fat in long for months be was unable to of its fast pick-up and getaway and drove along Broadway to meet the the lapel of the extraordinary gar-

this journey was fairly rapid. But

car would not sink over the hubs, bamboo containers. Be secured A Breathe property. His encounter never gave way to any of the other welcoming committee at the City ment that serves him as overcoat, Hall, where he was presented by raincoat, and what not. He speaks from Cuzco to Lima dangers and In spite of these precautions the car supply of this makeshift lubricant, with bandits in Nicaragua brought entries. Because of its low centre

many times was mired so deeply which would flow after a fashion if him a Besh wound in the right Judge Francis Mancuso of the

that the wheels almost disappeared sufficiently heated. It worked. arm, where a bullet passed through Italian Historical Society, Count ac English, but one of his proudest difficulties beset the lone traveller accomplishments is the singing of in almost overwhelming numbers. Roberti, Italian Vice-Consul, and It's a Long Way to Tipperary, The distance, as the crow flies, is

in muck and water. Punta Arenas

The crash which killed his his elbow just as he was aiming a and Costa Rica were behind them. some 300 miles. As Barone travel

one on this adventurous trip. Three Some day in the future a great The Whippet that showed the That leg of the trip required three Marines. and # half months of struggle Sandine'a bandits caught him other times. Barone and his car took highway will be a bond of friend-way home to its classy field of com through savage mountain wilder ness. Natives engaged to help clearrat. They took Barone's money, flying. tumbles, but always the in- ship linking the two Americas into petitors in these races was a strict one' community. Then the experi- ly stock model except for a change in carburetor and an exhaust mani- The Italian continue. That repairs were often ences of Jose Mario Barone will his gue, 20,000 feet of previous domitable little Italian was able to

fold and the construction of a small motion picture film. begged the return of some clothing, of the crudest sort is indicated by seem as far away and romantic as

Otherwise the car a dilapidated the reference made by a Pans the first pioneer caravan of cover- racing body.

was the same as the thousands that wreck that the natives thought it newspaper to a home wheel on the ed wagons that wou its way to Cali-

fornia across the great American already are in the hands of the worthless,

and faally allowed car as it rattled into Cristobal.

driving public.. desert. (Continued on next Columa.)

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ward Lima, Peru.

Paul Vaccarelli, chairman of the re- which he learned from some Britianed. it lengthened to 500 miles. Then Nicaragua, bandits and U.S. mechanie, Oresci, was not the only shot at his assailants.

ception committee.

Intrepid Adventurer,

The inter-continental trip from Rio de Janeiro to New York by automobile has tempted many dare devil drivers from Latin America, according to Barone, who states that more than two score cars have started north, with New York as their objective, and failed. Yet Barone and his battered Studebaker, which had seen mere than 100,000 miles of stunt" driving before the start of this journey, came through They came through despite aval anches, fever, and the vicissitudes of a long trail which cost the lives of three mechanics who had thrown in their lot with this adventurous little Italian at various stages of the journey.

Barone himself satisfies every polar requirement as the intrepid adventurer. He was a motor driver in Northern Africa with the Italian army before he was out of his 'teens.

Tommies during the war.

Most characteristic of this wiry little man's personality is the startling emblem found on his car- similar to the one painted on the fuselage of his place during the war. It is a white skull and cross- bones, superimposed on a big red heart. "My heart is ever in the hands of death," he will explain.

The car Barone used in staging his circus" was the same 1929 Studebaker he so proudly drove into New York. It was purchased in 1924 as a used car. More than two years of stunting and racing was the "breaking in" it received for the trip which was to make transportation history.

R way for the car plotted to kill Barone and steal his effects. Barone Crove them away at the point of his gun, engaged other natives, and for two weeks ate nothing not prepar; ed by his own. bands for fear of being poisoned. His own supply of rations at last gave out, and for several days he was without food. At length-Lima, and fifteen long days in hospital before he was again ready to travel.

New Mechanic.

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On again he went with a new Slow mechanic,-Eugene Oresci. The start of the tour was made in progress over mountain "trails, an Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With a occasional stream bed, an infre- ODC Ugo Comelli,quent railroad right of way. Guya- companion, Barone started for Buenos Aires, quil, Via Flores, Quaranda, Am arriving there 23 days later, and bata, and at last Quito in Ecuador. Three hundred miles, and another incidentally establishing a new re-

To Comelli,four months. cord for this trip.

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