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Show I I WHAT BECOMES OF OLD AUTOS? 4 ' 'A ' J . 4 f , ; , - Jb " v ' - ' ' Til mniilTi I' 1 A. V. Olson says many old-timers still giving good service. 1 L The usual belief that five years is the average life of an automohiio is disproved dis-proved every once in a while by the turning up of some old-timer still doing-business doing-business at the old stand after considerably consid-erably more than that period, according accord-ing to Manager A. V. Olson of the Utah-Idaho Motor company, local Mitchell distributors. The illustration, for instance, fur-nised fur-nised by Mr. Olson, shows a Mitchell which has been in continuous use for nearly three times its "average" life. Shipped from the factory of the Mitchell Motors company. Inc., at Racine, Ra-cine, Wis., in 1004, the car is still giving giv-ing daily satisfactory service, according to its owner, E. H. Bunn of Gibbons, Neb. In commenting on the car, Mr. Bunn says: "I have had it for about twelve years and would not part with it, for the quality remains long after the price is forgotten. It is good for 100,000 miles yet." It is evident from tho picture that the old bus is still in first-class shape, and will dodge the junk man for many years to come. I |