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Show THE GRIT SIX RU1 L01 W R. W. Gunyon and family of Mont-, rose, Colo., while en route to Seattle In their Grant Six car, called at the Goodale-'Scoville garage Thursday for a friendly visit. In looking the car over it was found to be In excellent condition. Mr. Gunyon claimB that It had done over 18,000 miles, over the roughest kind of roads and weather conditions. Mr. Gunyon said: "When I first drove the car out of Denver, January 22, 1916, we drove to Eads, Colorado. From Eads we turned and went west to Kansas City, through snow over six inches deep, more than half the way, and the other half was black mud. We had the road all to ourselves on this trip, as no other car would tackle it, conditions being so bad. From Kansas City we drove to Oklahoma to the southern part of the state. Then we went back over another route to Kansas City; from Kansas City to "Denver; from Denver to Burlington, Colo., and returned re-turned to Denver; from Denver to Montrose. In this trip we went through the Black canyon, shoveling snow the biggest part of the 15 miles, and our car was the only car to negotiate ne-gotiate this road at this time of the year; from Denver we went into Wyoming; from Wyoming we went to Yellowstone National park and toured the same, finding no grades that the Grant did not negotiate with ease; from National park we went up Wood river seven miles from Big Horn mountains, and as stated by the guides, our car on this trip, traveled seven miles further up the canyon than any other car had yet been known to go; wo went to Cody and from Rawlins to Ogden. "We have encountered very little trouble with the car. In fact, a complete com-plete overhauling was given It before leaving Denver the last "time. The bill on the overhauling and all repairs re-pairs to date, amounts to only $79.99. I think this is a wonderful record for a car being put over this territory and under all kinds of weather ccii'.1.'-lions, ccii'.1.'-lions, and I am in a condit'oi. to know the expense of overland trips, as I have made a number of them in a great numbar of other makes of cars." Speaking: of the trip made by the Grant Six E. F. Malan, manager of the Goodale-Scoville company said he asked Mr. Gunyon if he would not tarry in Ogden for a few days until the weather conditions were better, before starting on his trip to Seattle, but he simply laughed at the weather conditions, and stated that they could be no worse than he had gone through the early part of the year, and the little Grant had never failed him in I any road conditions, said there wero no roads between Ogden and Seattle that the car would not negotiate with ease. "We wished him success on his trip," said Mr. Malan, "and it is our opinion that he has considerable pluck to tackle such a trip at this time of the year, but traveling as he has, all through the Rockies, I guess he understands un-derstands what he is up against, and he is loud In his declaration that with the little Grant car he will be able to reach his destination, to spend thr? winter in southern California. There has been a great number of tourists driving Grant Six cars across the continent this year, calling at our garage en route, as we are the western west-ern representatives for the states of Utah, southern Idaho and Nevada, we are always pleased to entertain the transcontinental travelers, especially those driving Grant cars. |