Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 26 | "to Paint or Not."

1 "TO PAINT OR NOT." Right now, with spring but a short I stretch away, to paini or not to paint ,Is the leading question with most mo I tor car owners. Discussing the question, a wr ter In the March number of American .Motorist .Motor-ist says: "Repainting an automobi'e, as far as a serviceable and pre?entable Jcb is concerned, requires less in the way of professional skill than patience; the capacity to proceed with care, and ab-; stention from our national vice ox-j cessive hurry." After giving owners simple and min-i ute Instructions for dressing up their old cars, tho writer continues; 1 "Busy as the automobile factories are, It is as yet a fact that folks no longer consider It a crime and Imme diately look up your credtt rating up- f on seeing you in last year's car.: The Pll-i: trend toward economy expressed in OlstI t this attitude finds expression also in MsKv' - n greater inclination on tho part of iHhIa' , the individual owner to do himself " lnifl$R'" many of the little things for the doing niffSi of which paid talent vrns hired hereto- IsLwlC' fore. The circumstance that said ta jKl V lent seems to have become scarcer Hl-l than ever and so costly as often to jHBfA tax ordinary understanding, likewise t BK 1 may have a good deal to do tvlth Mr. ftfj'?' Motorist's sudden discovery that, af- BIK! ter all, he is a pretty good mechanic KvlKrt and that a few hours' work about the mb? car increases the appetite wonderfu ly sB&HbV and adds strength to soldon-used back iEftf muscles."