Show I RACES GOOD TEST i OF A CARS WORTH i ii I i i Reliability and Service Shown in Gruelling and Severe Endurance Contests Being so often asked the question of or whether the racing game pays either the maker dealer or user of automo automobiles automobiles automobiles biles I beg leave to express my feel feol feelings feelIngs ings on the matter said Joseph S Fin Finigan FInigan Finigan igan yesterday There is no question but that a large amount of money and sometimes even lives are lost at the sport and we can well weil ask whether it all pays How However However However ever if we omit track racing for which there is doubtless very little defense and confine ourselves purely to endur endurance endurance endurance ance runs and road races we will find the serious casualties practically nil niland niland niland and the expense not particularly great greatOn greatOn greatOn On the other side we do actually dis discover discover discover cover that this is one of the best ways in eliminating the weaker brother from the list of automobiles which confronts the buyer of a car There Is not the tho slightest question but that any car able to survive a gruelling road race of sev several several several eral hundred miles must be the best nor can eRn any anyone one doubt that a car with numerous victories in endurance con contests contests contests tests to its credit must be a good car for the individual us user er to buy I have seen numerous new cars put on the market and have noticed that they generally go into the kind of contests needed Four out of five of them fail fall to make maIm good and the possible owners are thereby saved from being stung the manufacturers are saved from send sending sending sending ing good money after the bad that they have already alread spent in building the car carand carand carand and the result Is really satisfactory to every one Of course once in a while a car will have success in such contests simply because the number of entries are few and the good cars are eliminated by accident but this cannot happen often and no car can have ha vo a string of vic victories victories victories tories to Its credit if it has not the goods The last Vanderbilt race was one of i the greatest examples on record of proving the durability of a car There were unquestionably several cars In the therace therace therace race faster than the winner for a sprint and there was just as unquestionably unquestionably unquestionably no other car in the race with the durability as the winner never left the track except for change of tires The numerous turns which of course had to be taken at high speed com combined combined combined with the general strain of the tho therace thorace therace race caused serious trouble to develop in many a car capable of standing hard I usage of the ordinary sort Naturally a car able to go through I such a contest without the breaking of ofa ofa ofa a cylinder crank shaft steering knuckle etc Is more attractive to the I customer and dealer than the other I i car so though there is something i I against even road racing and endurance I contests I feel that the benefits to both manufacturer and user In giving a car i imor more mor severe strains than any sane man I would ever give It more than counter counterbalance counterbalance I balance the dangers and expense there thereof I of |