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Show Overland passenger cars and M trucks. New from the factory, this cat I taken from the sales rooms of the hart Motor company at Oklahoma Okla., on March 29 and driven tt lobbv of the Lee-Huckins hotel. J. the "gear shift lever was disconn. from the low, middlo and reverse and the eear box was sealed m The motor was started; the car lei hotel and did not return tor I -davs; that w.ls on April 5. . . The car, driven by a relay of .;, drivers, ran night and day, the never stopping, for 168 coitttl hours. The drivers had no ada' i of pear shiftinc during the two- of rain or muddv roads and the I v to fifteen hours they spent tv-four hour dav on pood and mc pavements, in tho rush and train' on the Oklahoma roads. U n's said that if a motor car wi I f" on an Oklahoma road it will enm - anv other section of the world. In these seven days and inp which tho pear could not bo si J from hich nor tho motor stop'rj carburetor adjustment or spar change, the model 90 broke the w record for a test ot t Ins kind, snecdomcter. carefully eheokei si . that it had traveled ;K U m iW is pvacticallv one-sixth 'ri,n world, or a distance eqmil to i from New York to T.o A pie back across the southern u, honia Oitv. , t :nsL This nonstop portornyin. m pour ONceodod tho mvvt b.st - over made bv VX.l '' OIERIID MODEL I MIES M RECORD IcniarkaVlc aulomobilo performances are not as frequent those days as they wore four or five years ayo, tho auto-Mioliilo auto-Mioliilo manufacturer lias attained so liitrli a .standard of product. That nuiy explain why so much attention lias been attracted to n now world's record performance per-formance made by mi Overland stock car, model HO. Additional details on this feal were rrrcived during tho week bv YV. ,s. Kdmonds, sales manager for the T-trown- inc A 11 1 olllitbi lo Miinn'itiv .1 i v 1 , t re |