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Show STUDBAKER GETS FIRST PLACE Permit No. 1 to tour the Yosemite Valley, a trophy sought eagerly every year by every automobile on the Pacific Coast, has been awarded for the fifth consecutive time to Studebaker. Stude-baker. Each year there is a race to see twho shall be first into the Valley. To get there means a twenty-four hour grind through seemingly impassable impas-sable roads, snow banked and drifted as high as the car, and around trees blown across the unseen trail during the stormy winter. No tackle, towing tow-ing or other aids to motoring may be j used. The car must go in under its ; own power exclusively. At 8:15 in the morning of Jan. 4, Chief Ranger F. S. Townsley of the California forestry service found outside out-side his cabin in the Valleiy, which during the winter is made an "island" by the towering drifts without, Wil-; liam J. Silva, Studebaker dealer of Modesta, Cal., in a Standard six ; Duplex phaeton. "Well, winter is over and spring will be coming soon," he said. "You fellows with your Studebaker are as sure a sign of the seasons as the first robins. For five years you have taken tak-en away permit No. 1. Guess I may as well have a rubber stamp made for you. How did you find the going?" Mr. Silva had to admit that the going go-ing had taxed every resurce of the Standard six car. In places he had to back up several times and buck drifts like a battering ram. Several other places a start bad to be made with shovels. Probably no drive in the world calls for quite as much stamina, power pow-er and reserve strength as this burrowing, bur-rowing, bucking tour over snow-obscured Coulterviile road. The Studebaker Stude-baker car which made it was an ordinary or-dinary stock phaeton. It is what is built into it which made the feat possible pos-sible for the fifth consecutive time, a world record. |