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Show New 1957 Fords ' Set Record on Utah Salt Fiats A 1957 Ford has traveled more than 50,000 miles at an average speed of more than 108 miles per hour on the Bonneville, Utah Salt Flatts to capture all records from one mile up to 50,000 miles for a total of 458 national and international interna-tional marks. This totals more records re-cords than ever have been held by any other stock car, G. Dowry Anderson Inc., Ford dealer at Springville, Utah, announced today. to-day. George Naylor said that the same type of 1957 Ford may be test driven by Springville residents and he issued an invitation to the public to try America's most rugged rug-ged car. "The Ford's Bonneville run be-Igan be-Igan at 1:50 p.m. September 9. In Hhe next 19 days the car traveled a distance equivalent to more than twice around the world at more-than more-than 108 miles an hour," Mr. Naylor Nay-lor explained. "This was the greatest great-est durability and performance achievement in the history of the automobile," he added. "The reason rea-son for this endurance run came from Crew-Chief Danny Eames who said: 'We don't want people to go this fast. What is more, no one should go this fast except racing drivers . . . and then only on race tracks. - 'This kind of test is designed strictly to improve the breed of cars ... to test their durability. We're not after mere speed. The big thing is to torture the engine, the chassis, the body, and all the thousands of parts with .high speeds for tremendous distances. Here we've got an all-new car, a new kind of Ford, and we wanted to prove to ourselves, as well as to the American people, just what we had.' " The Bonneville Salt Flats is one of the deadliest deserts on earth. Nothing can live on it, and noth- ing grows on it. .Daytime heats range up to 100 degrees, while at night the thermometer plunges down to 50 degrees. But the great , salt bed's surface sur-face makes it a perfect testing ground for automobile performance perform-ance and endurance. It has been the world's most famous natural proving ground since 1924. "The first day at Bonneville, the Ford knocked off all records up to 24 hours by running at an average aver-age of better than 120 miles an hour including time for pit stops and changing of drivers. |