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Show ! TDURSSEN'S ADVICE ; One Must Take a Real Slide Before Danger Is Realized, Real-ized, He Says. Automobile drivers seem to be like young men they've got to sow their wild oats and learn .by experience. This is the opinion of prominent au-r au-r tomobile men of Salt Lake, as gleaned from interviews on the question: by aro there so many bent up fenders and jammed radiators among perfectly new cars? Those who notice motor cars at "all have noticed the many almost new machines ma-chines standing along' Main street with dented fenders. It just seems luck, one man put it, for a man who buys a new car and wants to keep it perfectly shinv and new to get into some sort of a little jamb while the auto is yet young and, while not suffering any particular par-ticular damage, mar the looks a bit. "It isn't luck at all,'-' is the statement state-ment of A. E. Tourssen, manager of the Eandall-Dodd Auto company, Limited. Limit-ed. " It is pure . carelessness. ". Mr. Tourssen, in his wide experience afi director of the distribution in the intennountain territory of Nationals, Buirks and Oldsmobiles three of the "best sellers" has learned that the new motorist has to have a skid before he will sense the seriousness of one. "Perhaps after the autoist has Buffered Buf-fered a bad skid he mav not live to appreciate ap-preciate it." the Eandall-Dodd manager said. "I would recommend that every driver who has not had a real skid pick out a verv broad and un-street-caried street, paved with asphalt and with no traffic in sight. Drive the car h- fifteen .miles an hour up the street middle. mid-dle. Give the steering wheel a sharp left turn and apply the brakes at the same time. The sensation of helplessness helpless-ness which results will be remembered for some time." Mr Tourssen declares that the sen sation can even be better appreciated bv the one wishing the experience sitting sit-ting in the rear scat while some one else applies the wheel and brake treatment. treat-ment. While a skid may not result in a demolished de-molished car, it frequently leaves its marks on the spokes or leaves a bent Tim or even a bent axle shaft.' And wobbles resulting from rim bends, according ac-cording to the Buick man, are hard on tires. Hkids have done more to make new cars look like old ones in the space of a minute or two than all the other causes of car ageing, in his opinion, and he had this to say: "Now is the time of year when skidding skid-ding is more prevalent than other seasons. sea-sons. The snowy streets or sloppy pavements are dangerous. But another element enters. Most folks who travel, because of the cold and discomfort, want to get there as soon as possible. They are not so leisurely as in the summer sum-mer and so not as careful. The very fact they are uncomfortable causes them to pav less attention to their driving. driv-ing. The result is that they run up close behind some vehicle which stops quicklv, then they jam on the brakes and skid." Alwavs use proper chains and drive carefully, seems to be the consensus of advice to motorists from practically all dealers. |