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LATEST "WRINKLES" IN MOTOR CARS 415
appearance of the year is the disappearing
tonneau. A comfortable
roomy tonneau is completely covered
over in half a minute's time. The
practical advantage of this, the saving
of the tonneau from the dust, need
. not be enlarged upon, but its other
advantages might occur to some. For
quite a while past a wild cry has gone
up among automobile hosts, "Does it
cost you more to feed your tonneau
than it does your engine?" Numbers
of people reason that if one has money
enough to buy a car in the first place.
he can stand cheerfully for a tonneau
full of people, all meals at road
houses, toll charges, evening papers,
hot chocolate at the country drug
stores, hair nets, and a fresh injection
of gasoline on the way back.
This Pathfinder Can Be Either a Roomy Touring Car or
But may we not reason also that be­ Can Close Up the Tonneau to Form a Gigantic Roadster
cause he bought the motor, and in addition
when only is standing two instead the of upkeep four have of that
incite>r, he may not have so much money planned to go riding.
left for these
T he wire
other things,
wheels which
and might pos­
came into gensibly
appreciate
eral use last
it if some of the
year are more
guests in the
popular than
tonneau w o u 1 d
ever. This year,
chip in once in a
however, there
while ?
In This Car the Top Slides Slowly and Impressively Up from a is a new wheel
Going back to
Compartment in the Rear, at the Pressure of a Lever , ,. , .
the disc wheel,
this disappearing tonneau: this also is but this is on only a few of the more
fitted with an efficient top, which knows expensive cars.
when to disappear with the tonneau, In the past, the manufacturer did not