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Show l Local Dealer Describes The j New Ford V-8 Complete details of the new V-8 cylinder Ford car which is now being introduced, were made public pub-lic here today by Osmond Crow-ther, Crow-ther, of North Sanpete Motor, local lo-cal Ford dealer. The New Ford is large, lonir, roomy, fast, powerful and alert. Its V-3-cylinder engine develops 65 horsepower and it is capable of 75 miles an hour. Fourteen body types of modern, streamline design are offiered. A four-cylinder engine developing 50 horsepower also can be supplied with any of these bxly types at $50.00 lower in price. Numerous mechanical advances are incorporated in the new car. These embrace a synchronized silent si-lent gear shift and silent second gear, rubber engine mountings, down-draft carburetor and carburetor car-buretor silencer, automatic spark control, fuel pump and rear fuel tank. Other improvements include in-clude a newly-designed rear spring thermostatically controlled Houd-allle Houd-allle double acting hydraulic shock absorbers, large four-wheel brakes, newly designed electrically welded steel-spoke wheels with large hubs and hub caps and large tires. The chassis and running run-ning gear are cushioned by rubber rub-ber Insulators in the spring shackles shac-kles and shock absorber links. The body is insulated from the frame by rubber pads. The new bodies are fresh and modern from the gracefully roun ded V-type radiator to rear bumper. bum-per. The air-flow lines are carried car-ried out by the long hood with its rustless steel center strip, the slanting safety glass windshield, and rounded roof line. The convex con-vex lamps, full-crowned fenders and long, low running board harmonize har-monize with the balance of the design. Body interiors are roomy and richly furnished. Seats are of new style, designed for utmost comfort. Driver seats in all closed clos-ed cars are adjustable. A large ventilator is provided in the cowl. The oval instrument panjl is in engine-turned finish and has a rustless steel mounting strip. In- side sun visors, which fold out of the way when not in use, are provided pro-vided in all closed cars. The New Ford V-8 engine is remarkably re-markably free from vibration. Frequent Fre-quent and overlapping impulses deliver the power in a smooth constant flow. The engine is of the 90-degree V-type, developing 65 brake horsepower hor-sepower at 3400' r.p.m. The 65-pound 65-pound crankshaft is of the 90-degree type, with its four cranks at right angles to each other. The crankshaft is statically and dynamically balanced and its throws counterbalanced. The crankshaft, connecting rods and pistons &)so are in balance so that the engine operates with remarkable re-markable smoothness at nil engine en-gine speeds. Pistons are of aluminum alu-minum al.oy and have three' rings the lower acting as an oil-control ring. Cylinder blocks and crankcas-are crankcas-are cast in one unit, giving exceedingly ex-ceedingly rigid engine construction. construc-tion. New type, one-piece valves, which eliminate tappets, operate directly from the camshaft without with-out pushrods. Connecting rods from opposite: pistons are placed side by side on each 90-degree crankshaft throw. These are mounted on new floating float-ing steel bushings, babbitted inside in-side and out which serve to give the benefit of the full crankpin bearing area to each connecting red thus affording longer wear. A cast aluminum cover embracing embrac-ing the intake manifold forms the top of the engine, giving it an unusually un-usually finished appearance. The down-draft carburetor and thj fuel pump are mounted on this cover. The gas is preheated in the intake in-take manifold by a hot spot created cre-ated by hot exhaust gases surging back and forth through a small passage in the manifold cover plate. Exhaust ports are on the outside of the engine blocks, the left exhaust pipe being carried around the front of the engine. The distributor operates directly from the front end of the camshaft cam-shaft eliminating the use of interposed in-terposed gears. Spark control is automatic. Crankshaft and crank pin bearings are lubricated by pressure as are the main bearings of the camshaft. Pistons and valves are 'oiled by spray and splash. A fan of airplane type and two centrifugal water pumps together with the large surface of the radiator ra-diator insure ample cooling under all driving conditions. The rugged new double-drop frame is formed to the shape of the body and, with the new low rear spring, provides a low center of gravity, with consequent increase in-crease in readability. The riding comfort of the cars is due to many factors, but particularly par-ticularly to the new flexible transverse trans-verse cantilever springs, larger tires, rubber insulation and the newly designed shock absorbers. Two new features have been incorporated in-corporated in the Houdaille hydraulic hy-draulic double-acting shock absorbers. ab-sorbers. One, a thermostat con- trol which compensates for varying vary-ing temperature conditions, and the other, a special valve which automatically lessens the effect of sudden road shocks. The Ford rear spring is of new design, being flatter and lower. It is mounted on perches at the rear of the axle housing and bowed out so as to clear the differential housing. The new brakes have a braking surface of 186 square inches. Wheels are 18 inches in diameter. The large hubs enclose the bolts which attach the wheel to the drum. There are 32 steel spokes, sharply pitched and electrically welded to the drop-center rim and hub shell, forming an unusually strong unit. Tires are 18 x 5.25 inches. Each is balanced to prevent pre-vent "tramping" or vibrations at high speeds. The drive is of the familiar Ford torque type, the drive shaft being of tubular construction. i |