Show TEN T N YEARS FROM FROl NOW Within ten years ears autos will travel safely at a speed of miles an hour weigh less than 1000 pounds sell seU for less than 1000 and cover 80 miles on a gallon of gasoline For or fear however Manta Manti motorists may be led to believe that this statement represents the ravings of an idle brain or the pen of this editor who editor who is honest enough to admit admit ad ad- mit he doesn't know much about autos autos we we hasten to produce our ur authority Chas F. F Kettering inventor of the starter self-starter and the farm lighting system now head of General Motors research research re reo search laboratories not only n makes akes the statement but he backs back it up with convincing argument He lIe says a new nev metal now being being being be be- ing g perfected that is 15 times stronger than steel and only one- one third ird as heavy as aluminum will be used that carburetors soon to be perfected will vi 11 with this light h weight to pull more than double the present gasoline mileage The entire system of pear gear ye r shifting as now in use will ba bs done away with And he headds headds until there adds ands that competition will still further reduce prices will ill be he few cars selling above 1000 and and then only when built order I to special As As far as I l' can see adds this wizard of the auto world the lithe auto and the airplane ne will ill never conflict Instead they they wil vil tie right in with each ach other and inside of another ten years it win will ill be a wise se man indeed who can tell when blindfolded whether hether ther hes he's riding in n a plane or an auto And most of us inthis inthis in inthis too much to laugh at such fellows whet when know this day and ae e they t make what seems like crazy predictions r v.- v. |