Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 36 | Kisselkar Survives a 75-Foot Plunge

KISSELKAR SURVIVES H 75-FDOT PLUNGE In the automobile industry today, with its keen competition, many claims are made for the various types of cars now offered, but it must be a matter of great satisfaction for an establishment to know that the line of goods that it sells and represents bears out the many claims that are made for it. An instance of this kind lias been brought to the attention of the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Motor Car company, local KisselKar distributors, in a letter just received from an enthusiastic owner of a KisselKar. The letter was received from TV. Crider of San Jose. Fart of the letter i follows: I "After ninning my Kissel touring car. tlie model I have' used for a pnm-ber pnm-ber of years over the edge of an arroyo in the Pacheco pass last week, the car plunged down an almost perpendicular bank seventy-five feet, then leaped across a dry creek bed seven or eight feet wide, ran into a boulder on the opposite bank, recoiled and hung for hours balanced on the edge of the dry creek. " Bv all the laws of gravitation and chance, the car should have been a total wreck, but niter hanlin; it out With a b'ock and tackle, we found the car real'.v in gnod shape, with the exception ex-ception of minor dents and a few lent parts, front axle beintr slightly twisted, a small bend in frame and a badlv damaged dam-aged fender, together with some broken glass.'-'