Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 65 | Chevrolet Wins Honors at Fair

CHEVROLET lfflffi I AT Fl Speedy Auto Takes Three Out of Four Racing Events. Perhaps no autpmobile shown at the Utah state fair, whioii caino to an end Saturday night, gained more honors or furnished the crowds that thronged the grounds more excitement and genuine gen-uine entertainment than did the Chevrolet. Chev-rolet. With Mr. Shepard, territorial representative repre-sentative in charge, the Chevrolet booth at the fair was at all times the center of an admiring crowd. Kspe-cially Kspe-cially was this true after the finish of each race in which the speedy little Chevrolet participated. I. C. P. Sudrow, manageT of the local lo-cal distributing agency, is well pleased with the results of the week and expressed ex-pressed himself as follows: "The Chevrolet gained sufficient honors for one week. We are more than pleased with the interest raanl- fested in our auto show on the grounds, and, of course, pleased that we won, three out of four races in which our car entered. "It must be admitted that the Chev-. relet car entered in the speed event' was the fastest car on the track, and with Moody driving was sure to win; any event in which it participated. ' "Had the big Packard kept away from the Chevrolet in the fifty-mile race and not taken a position immo-" diately behind our car, no accident-: would have happened and the Chevrolet Chevro-let would certainly have won. We were three laps in the lead at the time the Packard fouled our car and tore off the outside rear wheel on the back, turn. Even after replacing the wheel we gained sufficiently to have won the' race had not the car encountered other: trouble. "To sot at rest till controversv over' the manner in which the Chevrolet car raced, we wish to state that it -is equipped exactly the same as any stock car on the floor of our salesroom. It has a :Ui-to 1 gear ratio, the same on-, gine. same differential and same transmission trans-mission as any other Chevrolet car now in use or for sale. It. iaVapal)i3r of doing over seventy miles a hour stripped, the condition in which t raced."