Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 35 | First Cadillacs Old Enough to Class as Curios

First Cadillacs Old Enough to Class as Curios Many Owners of the Agec5 Models Write Factory, Believing Be-lieving Theirs First Made. "Hardly a wek passes but the Cadillac Motor Car company is given the opportunity oppor-tunity to buy in one of its early models." sa.id Sam Sharman. manager of the Shar-man Shar-man Auto eompe ny. local Cadillac distributers, dis-tributers, last week. " sually the writer expre..es the belief be-lief that his car, built a down or more years f).)?o, mupt be among the last of it? race, and feelt? Rure that the company would like to have tt as a. curio. "The first mxle! of the Cadillac." con- ! tinned Pharma.n, "had a one-cylinder engine, en-gine, and hundreds of these cars are running- -well today. It is true that not all of them are used to carry passengers, though not long a.qo the company received re-ceived a letter from a Minnesota farmer who was still using one after ten years of service. It was a se ond-hand car when he bought it In IPO. Many of these old cars have been turned in to delivery wagons and are running as faithfully as ever. "Other owners have written in that they have dipmnumed the engines and now use thm to operate farm ma chin- t ery, or for developing power in small i manufacturing plants, machine shops, etc. "The cars offered to the company may j he old, but they have many brothers, and tlie most of Ibem are spry and livelv in spite of their age and their long year's of I active service." J