Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-13 | Page 27 | 'Roamer Makes Record - Climbs City's Skyline Drive

1 'ROAMER MAKES RECORD CLIMBS CITY'S SKYLINE DRIVE ! 111(41 r tV.-w Art Bolton shows local distributors what his Eoamar can really do In hill climbing on the steep grades of the new Wasatch-Bonneville boulevard, the city s scenic wonder highway skirti iig Ensign peak. Add another feather and a. big one in the cap of the Koamerl j There are feathers galore already in ! the Koamer's jaunty cap, some of them i won for mechanical perfection and others for distinctiveness in appearance and beauty of the sort one just can't overlook; but this particular feather is of the Salt Lake variety, inasmuch as it was won right on our own stamping ground last week by a locally owned and locally piloted Roarner. The new Wasatch-Bonneville boulevard, boule-vard, the city Js sky lino drive around the mountain side skirting Ensign peak, was the scene of the Roarner 's latest achievement, a feat worthy of the highest high-est powered and best motored automobile automo-bile of modern times, no matter what the price. Art Bolton, of the Bolton Art Shoe store, was the pilot to win distinction, and it was his Roarner that is wearing the new feather with such proud distinction. And here's what Mr. Bolton's Roarner did, and there isn't a motor car driver in the state of Utah but will doff his chapeau in acclaiming the feat as one worth while and as an achievement that proves mechanical perfection as perhaps nothing else could: Mr. Bolton 's RJamer climbed the steepest grades of this sky lino drive without a rise of a single degree in the temperature of the water in the radiator without the slightest indication of cngino heating. The moto-meter on the radiator cap the little device that records engino trouble of various sois, overheating in particular, told a story that would de-light de-light the heart of any motor car owner who has experienced such trouble and their name is legion. It told of climbing climb-ing the steepest of grades without a whimper, without a murmur of protest on the part of the Roarner motor. It records, rather, a tale of "eating" hills and of liking it. It told of topping sharp inclines, and long, steady climbs negotiated with the ease of a level boulevard and this with old Sol shedding shed-ding his rays at the rate of about 110 in the shade. Mr. Bolton had as his guests on the record-breaking climb Messrs. Purdy and Rcilley, of the Purdy-Reilley Motor company, local distributors of the fj Roarner. Even the distributors them- selves were roused to enthusiasm at the s startling performance of the Roarner, B on this, the steepest and hardest-to- climb of all near-by highways. For, be it known, that many a high-powered car I has been unable to negotiate the G Wasatch-Bonneville boulevard grades, to say nothing of doing it without engine heating or the slightest evidence of backwardness on the part of the motor. When the car topped the most precipitous pre-cipitous grade, and did it as though it relished such work, the party climbed to terra firma for a look about and to examine closely the motomoter for signs of engine trouble. They wore repaid re-paid by scenic, splendors worthy of tho Alps or the Canadian Rockies and by the sight of a meter that registered minus as far as any indication of trouble was concerned. , "It's worth while owning a car that will get you up here without as much, as a hint of trouble," said Mr. Bolton. Bol-ton. "I knew I had an automobile that would hold its own with anything on h wheels as far as beauty and ordinary a motor car performances' went, but now 9 I know I can go many an owner one better by possessing a car that will not J only do wonders in every-dav duty, but that will outshine almost ail others in hill climbing and the more out-o-tho- G ordinary performances in pinches like S this." I