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Show II NEW SIX HUDSON IS I SHOWN BY BOTTERILL HI T.ocal motorists yesterday were given IJH th answer to that oft-asked ciucstlon, ia "What win Howard IS. Coffin do when SjS ho builds a six?" whon the first "51" fjjl Hudson, a big. powerful six-cylinder au- IkO i.omoblle, was received by the Tom Bot- "M tcrltl Automobile company, the Hudson !l and Plerce-Arrow dealers. m The car is a beauty and Is a full foot Hi longer than Is the four-cylinder model. ihe new Hudson "37." i Tt has a 127-Inch, wheel base, is eloc- S; Ideally lighted and hits an electric sclf- ik starting system that is pronounced in it fallible, because it Is comprised of an (1 electric motor which cranks the engine. In Ab tho car stood In Its local reprcscnta- li tlve's exhibit rooms today and the starter if ivan demonstrated time and again for the SB observation of local motorists, dozens of I complimentary references were made to 1 the car's surprising "beauty. Its long, jn weeping European body lines that are Wj the result of the visit to "Europe of Mr. m Coffin and several ot his engineers wlio ffi specialize In the body design, were the m cynosure of all e"e3 that passed the Bot- ffl terlll establishment. M The car Is capable of achieving slxty- n three miles an hour from a. standing ra -Htart In thirty-one seconds and has a rce- B ord speed of over elxty-flre miles an m hour, made on the International spcedwaj' Qj at Indianapolis. In glowing terms Prank Botterlll, tbe H"udson dealer, described some of tho ! features of the car today. He said: The car has a. long-stroke motor aad following out the correct engl- neertng practice, as advocated by the forty-eight engineers who are re-; re-; sponsible for the ear. the cylinders are cast in blocks of three each- .The car hae thirty-filx-inch wheels 1 and has been pronounced by the rac- , ! Jng drivers, George Salzman and Bert ttlngley, as the smoothest nix they ha1 ever ecen. and siinoothnoss and flexibility b the reason for the cx- Isturo of the six-cylinder car. I The car has deop twelve-inch up- t holstery and exceptionally- wide bodv. which" Is achieved by enlarging tlie body out ovr the wheels and length-1ng length-1ng it considerably. ; A . surprising thine In connection with the car Is Its price, for th car sella at only 524BO. , , A. glance under the hood aptly Illustrates Il-lustrates Its power, for it has a big, strong Hudson motor and has been tostcd over 20.000 miles hi ten sta.tcH and under every possible road and climatic condition a test which Is the equivalent of 10.000 miles ordlnary drlvlng. or four years use in th hands of the average owner to make aure of its correct operation in the hands of the motorist. Tho six-cylinder car received yester-dav yester-dav is for H. L. Godbc, who has permitted the Torn Botterill Automobile company to use It for exhibition purposes for ten dava. It will be on their salesroom floor until October '22. |