SECTION SIX
Pages 1 to 10
Automobiles, Road Trips arid
Northwest Highway News
vol. xxxix.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1920
NO. 24
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OVER THE FAMOUS SHASTA ROUTE IN AN OVERLAND 4 . SEDAN
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Closed Car Makes Real Automobile History in Non-Stop Engine Run by Pacific Highway From the Canadian Border at Blaine, Wash., South to Tia Juana, Mexico. ' :
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THIS is the story of the Portland-to-Sisson
(Cal.) leg of a remark
able non-stop run made four
weeks ago by an Overland 4 sedan
rYom the Canadian boundary at
Blaine, Wash., down the Pacific higrh
Wftjr through Washington, Oregon and
California and across the Mexican
border into Tia Juana. This run of
15$4 miles made lnclosed-car history.
Never before has anything like it
been done with an inclosed car.
This run was not made to set any
speed records, but to demonstrate
under actual 'touring conditions the
ability, endurance and economy of the
Overland 4 sedan. One of these same
cars, a model Identical with the sedan
that made the non-stop run, set a new
economy record on the official econ
omy run last month from Los Angeles
to Tosemite park, California.
On this non-stop run there was no
limitation to the number of stops the
car might, make, but the engine was
to be kept running continually.
The sedan -left Blaine, Wash.. a 9
o'clock Thursday morning. May 13.
It crossed the line into Tia Juana at
2:45'o'clock the following Sunday :f-
In the 1D84 miles registered by its
speedometer, the engine of the little
car flopped Just once. This was . in
Sacramento, as the tank was being
Hied preparatory to continuing the
run to j?resno. i ne stopping or tne
ernoon. May 16, and 15 minute la ter ! motor Was discovered to be due to a
was officially registered at the wain I clomped gas line, caused by dirt in the
customhouse. ' ' gasoline, and was so certified by the
official observer at that place. The
engine was stalled for five minutes
while the gas line was r taken off and
cleaned out. " -
But this I: primarily the story of
that leg of the run between Portland
and Sisson, Cat, 430 miles, on which
the writer went aa observer. This
was by long odds the hardest leg of
the whole tour.
It was not only much longer than
was assigned to any other crew, but
it had worse roads and mere obstacles
to test the mettle of a car. No run is
an easy one that Includes the steep,
rough old road over Rice hill, a moun
tain in Itself; Roberts mountain. Cow
Creek canyon, still referred to In S
hushed ' tones by California drivers;' t'
Glendale hill. Wolf Creek hill. Sexton I
mountain (Smith hill), the climb over
the Siskiyous, where at the summit
the highway, attains an altitude of
5000 feet, and the final climb up to
(Concluded on Pass 6.) -