TOURING WITH 
RAYMOND SPEARS 
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easier; they last a good deal longer; 
as a matter of driving, the oversize 
tire will carry one over soft ground 
much better than a four-inch tire. The 
half inch extra size makes an aston¬ 
ishing difference in mud, sand and over 
rough going. By deflating the tire to 
spread it out even greater “snowshoe” 
j traction can be obtained in sand—but 
running on a deflated tire, of course, 
ruins it rapidly. 
Speed is almost never a desirable 
thing in a car. The country would be 
far better off if no car was driven with 
more than 45 miles an hour in it. 
Talk of seventy miles an hour on the 
highway is a shameful thing. No one 
in his senses would drive on a tour 
even forty miles an hour. The touring 
gait is thirty miles an hour, or less, in 
any car. The car performance that 
counts is in practically all makes, what 
it will do on country roads day after 
day. Country highway driving at 23 
to 25 miles an hour is ample. Most 
cars, except the heaviest, are at their 
best at these gaits. My own touring- 
gait, even on good shell, concrete, as¬ 
phalt and brick roads is less than 24 
miles an hour, with rare spurts close 
to thirty for a short distance. The 
moment a medium - weight car goes 
above thirty miles an hour its depre¬ 
ciation is fast, gasoline and oil con¬ 
sumption out of proportion, and jeo¬ 
pardy comes close. 
More and more manufacturers see 
that the talking points, the sales points, 
are found in performance on all roads, 
rather than speedway climaxes. A car 
that will go all day in mud, sand, over 
corduroy and over cobbles, climbing out 
of washes, rushing waterholes, going- 
up steep, rough hills, easing down slick 
clay mountain roads is worth to the 
tourist ten times what a racing car 
would be. Look out for a car that 
tries to be a racer and a rough-road 
traveler both. It’s likely to be a mere 
compromise, neither one nor the other. 
Also, in purchasing a touring car, 
it is worth remembering that one must 
depend on service stations and repair 
parts in general garages. Cars that 
don’t have service stations throughout 
the regions to be visited may well be 
questioned. A small part, coming a 
thousand or two thousand miles from 
the factory may be weeks in arriving. 
The flivver has all over innumerable 
supply stations. But the best, or at 
least the most popular, of the medium- 
weight cars have service stations in all 
the cities and many of the smaller com¬ 
munities of the country. The popular¬ 
ity of a car is usually a good indication 
of the service it gives, in general work. 
Prejudice and experience have much 
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