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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.

BUENOS AIRES TO NEW

YORK.

And the first car to make the trip overland from Buena; Aires to New York, with the one over-

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rough and up and down was the going that forty-three tyres were required and 6,600 gallons of gaso- line were consumed. No record of oil consumption was kept. The trip cost the Stoessels $25,000, and each brother said he would not make it again if given $100,000 and all expenses, About 25,000 pampas, gives some idea of the The best road: "In the United) feet of motion picture film were taken, and in these reels lies graphic proof of the amazing feat performed by the two men and their car.

Aires by ship, it seams impossible! that we were ever able to endure all the hardships of the trip."

The drawn appearance of the ses jump of 250 miles.

When asked about some of the brothora to-day, when compared with photographs showing how "mosts" of their trip, the two they looked as cattle dealers brothers agreed or differed as before leaving their native follows:

The most beautiful scenery:

The wettest part:

Rica and

"In Costa

NEW CHEVROLET SUCCESS.

of the Chevrolet Coach, with its driver and four passengers, was 8,580 pounds. No oil and no water was used up during the run.

The economy test was staged by

Wins Gilmore Blue- green Economy Run.

Competing against a field of 41- ordeal they have been through the States." past two years. The lines in their The worst roads. The terrible six-cylinder coach, driven by Mrs. other entrants, a stock. Chevrolet tanned faces and the look in their mud on the Nicaragua-Costa Rica Paul A. Lawrence of Los Angeles, tired eyes tell of terrible hand- frontier, where we have to have! California, recently won the ships.

twenty oxen at one point to pull us weepstakes and first place in its This great trip began on April. The best idea of the difficulties through."

class in the annual Gilmore Blue- 19, 1828 when the Stoessels, with of this unique blazing of the Pan- two companions, left Buenos Aires American highway is to be had "No, it was not in the Andes Green Economy Run, one of the after a big send-off by the Auto- from the moving pictures ninde by Mountains, which are barren piles most important motoring events mobile Club of that city. They the younger brother, Andrew, as of rock and earth, but the pano- on the West Coast of the United

States, in Costa drove through Bolivia, Peru and Adam was driving the car up and ramas

Every type of road and grade Ecuador, their way made down mountain sides, through or Nicaragua." dangerous and laborious for long across rivers, out of mud holes

The hottest part of the trip: was encountered in the run that Los stretches

desert by Andes Mountain or through jungle growth with the "The

of Sechura, in covered 200 miles between trails over which a car had never aid of natives and animals which northern Peru, with much sun and Angeles and the Wrightwood mountains. Mrs. Lawrence's Chev- before travelled. They planned had to be hired on such occasions. sand and no water to reach the Panama Canal by These reels contain a record The coldest part of the trip: rolet demonstrated its economical motoring overland through of automobile touring at its worst "In Bolivia, 16,000 feet above sea operation over a course that in- Colombia and Venezuela, but after the nth degree of what the level, where the water froze on cluded city traffic, country roads. months of fighting jungla vegeta-average motorist strikes in most our hair as we wished our faces. and mountain stretches along a tion, swamps. and fever, they were countries, especially the United We had much snow in the high circuitous route rising from sen level to an elevation of 6,000 fest. forced in June of last year to put States. They tell of man power altitudes of Peru:" their car on a ship for their only and a rope added to horsepower

To win the event, the Chevrolet water trip, an overnight voyage and chains to get the car up steep Rica and Nicaragua, where we had coach travelled, 38.71 ton-miles to between Cartagena, Colombia, and stretches of alleged roads. The heavy tropical rains and our feet the gallon of gasoline, averaging 20.5 miles to the gallon for the 200 Colon, Panama, which was the car being eased down precipitous were wet for three weeks.” only way of solving a stretch of embankments while tearing up The worst river: "Entre Rios, miles traversed. The total weight absolutely impenetrable jungle earth and rocks. Adam Stoessel in Bolivia, which we had to cross swamp. At Cartagena they left stepping on the gas as natives eighty times because it was so one of their companions.

struggle with ropes to keep the winding,"

The From the Canal they fought ear from rolling over

a cliff.

most expensive part: tropical nature through Costa Naked natives wading waist high "High in the Andes Mountains in Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, through mountain torrents and Peru and Bolivia, where food, the American Automobile Associa- .. Salvador and Guatemala, After sluggish tropical streams to guide gasoline and all other supplies tion, and was limited to stock a comparatively easy trip through the course

Chevrolet in have to be carried up on the backs cars. Six classes of cars were re- Mexico, where the second member crossing. They show the car of llamas, burros or Indians. We presented among the 42 entries. of the original party of four totally submerged in a mud hole, paid a dollar for a little bit of The Chevrolet coach, with Mrs. Lawrence at the wheel, not only dropped out, they entered the from which it had to be hauled cocoa." United States at Laredo, Texas, the next day and disassembled so The most dangerous part: A won first place in its class, but, in on April 8th, and came on to New that the sand could be cleaned out mule track on the way to Quito, addition, wou the sweepstakes for York by way of Dallas, Tulsa, St. of its vital parts. Jungle trees said Adam. We were going down all classes. Louis, Chicago and Detroit. At and undergrowth being cut to a mountain when the car began to Detroit W. S. Knudsen, president make a way for this truly pioneer- slip-it was the wet season-and of the Chevrolet Motor Company, ing Chevrolet. The car running all that saved us from being detours: "For a volcanic erup- near La Qufaca on the showed special interest in the car through grass five feet high, over dashed over a precipice was a tree tion and presented the Stoessels with rocks in dry river beds, across that stopped the car," "A moun- Argentine-Bolivia boundary.” a new six which they will take frail bridges. And among many tain in Peru," said Andrew. "We The worst "no gas" trouble: delivery of when they land in other difficult stretches the mud started skidding on a part of the "In the Peruvian Andes, 3 miles Buenos Aires. Their old model diest motoring one ever encounter trall made wet by springs, and above sea level we skidded off the will be returned to Detroit and ed in picture or experience. the car came to a stop right on the trail and before we noticed a hole "retired." In spite of the terrific A few of the "firsts" claimed by edge of a straight drop of about in the gasoline tank all our gae was lost. It was a wild, barren punishment that the car received the Stoessels for their Chevrolet a thousand feet.".. en its Pan-American tour it was follow:

The most remarkable road: "In section, and it-took us four daya. found that the Chevrolet was still The first and only car to cross the mountains between La Guaira to get gasoline from the nearest What has been heralded by a their long journey north, Their The chief figures in this under-in good condition and that it was the western range of the Andes, and Caracas where we had a con- village eighty miles away, with leading New York newspaper as triumph over

and taking are Adam Stoessel, 83

not necessary to put a wrench to taking four months to do 300 stantly changing view of sea and the aid of a llama and an Indian "the greatest long-distance auto- jungle, deserts and swamps, dis- years old. his brother, Andrew, 23, it before it left Detroit on the hazardous miles.

mountains as we went around] whom we had to threaten with a- mobile trip of this automobile age" ease and bandits and extremes of and a 1928 Chevrolet touring car-final lap of its long journey. The The first car to get through curves."

gun to get him to act as guide," The Stoessels are quiet, un-car and the Argentinian brothers,, from

the Bogota,

capital of The most curious sight:.. "It came to an end in New York heat and cold complicated by

Such are the highlights of this recently when two young Argen adverse weather conditions was assuming sons of the Argentine after reaching their objective, | Colombia to Caracas, the capital was up in the Andes in Peruan notable accomplishment in auto-

with 3 tremendous tiniana drove their Chevrolet down recognized as "a gigantic effort pampas,

animal that is a cross between a mobile pioneering which stands as. paid a visit with two Chevrolet of Venezuela. Broadway after, having blazed whose successful completion emount of courage and will power officials to Washington, where they The first car to make the 200] Hama and an alpaca."

a tribute to the courage and deter The most exciting time:

mination of these men as well as much and the Chevrolet is a stock model were received by Vice-President miles from Guayaquil to Quito, m involves 19,000-mile trail from Buenos fundamentally Aires.

fight in the night with to the endurance and depend- The first to succeed in more for the automobile world of four cylinders. When the car Curtis, entertained by the Argen-Ecuador, in less than twenty days gun

Stoessels completing the trip virtually all than any freak speed car capable reached New York, after being line Ambassador and made life the

smashed the Peruvian bandits."

ability of the Chevrolet car they the way by land, they passed of 200 miles or more an hour on two years on the way, its speedo-members of the American Auto-record to nine daya..

The strangest of numerous used, meter read 19,000 miles. on a level stretch of sand."

The Expedicion Argentina Stoessel.arrives in New York after the 19,000-mile trip from Buenos Aires.From left to right: Andrew and Adam Stoessel and Mr. A. T. Bollini, Consul General of the Argentine Republic, in front of the Argentine Consulate in Battery Place where they were officially welcomed to New York.

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Questioned while in New York about their trip, Adam Stoessel said: "To make such a trip you have to have a good light car, plenty of money, a real desire for adventure and a lack of knowledge of what terrible things you will Thave to go up against, and then when you are face to face with these obstacles you must use a lot, of will power to see it through to the end.

"Our father, who is a retired cattle dealer with an even dozen of children tried to make us give up the idea of the trip, but when we insisted he was fine in his sup- port of us. We started with $15,000, most of it in a Buenos Aires bank, and we added to that sum money made by showing in moving picture houses films taken We by my brother on the way. chose a Chevrolet because we knew it would see us through, having had five of these cars in our family, and we decided on the open touring model as best for our needs. The only changes we made in it were to enlarge the intake of the carburetor for opera- tion in high altitudes and to add several tanks for gasoline, oil and water.

we

"Until we reached the United States we had altogether only a few hundred miles of good.roads out of the 17,000 we had travelled. Because of terrific rains experienced terrible going in a part of the Argentine and the We made tropical countries. hundreds of river crossings. We tolled up mountains-for one stretch we ran, fifty miles in first gear-and then we had to work our way down them with the greatest care. Some places were so steep we found it necessary to use ropes to get the car down, and our closest calls to death and the car's destruction. came when descending mountain roads.

"In some sections we were treated wonderfully well, and in others we were overcharged and robbed. We hated most of all to lose our motion picture camera. stolen from us in Mexico, for we were using it to secure a complete In pictorial record of the trip. Nicaragua the American Marines escorted us a part of the way and provided us with arms-ours had bean taken away from us. in. Venezuela: because of political disturbances--for the Nicara gunne took us for Americans because of our-American car and. our blue, eyes, fnherited from German grandparents

"We ute when we..could, and whatever was available, and we alept where night came on us in bed or car or on the ground, wet or dry. hot or cold. We both suffered from fever at various times.. in fact we lost several months because of sickness, Really, now that it is all over, except for getting back to Buenos

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