GARAGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 6

GARAGE GOSSIP

The supreme test of your nervous system . . . sitting beside your wife while she drives through traffic.

A concrete road 260 miles long will be built in Spain from Madrid to Irun to serve as a national highway.

Austin, Damlier, Vauxhall and Renault cars will be represented at the New York Motor Show on January 5.

In the past 17 years the population of Detroit, the American automobile centre, has increased from 465,000 to 1,334,500.

In America the individual name is favoured by 76 per cent, of car producers. Out of 46 world-famous makes 35 bear the names of persons, many of whom are practically unknown to-day as individuals, having only a passing local repute.

Farmer: If you want to get to the village, you must go this way. Tourist: But the guidepost points in the other direction. ''That's right: we have pointed the finger in the wrong direction to keep beggars and robbers from entering the village.”

Recalling early motor-cycling, an enthusiast stated that in 1903 it was unwise to purchase a motor cycle, or, as it was then, a motor-assisted cycle,’ unless one was a professional cyclist, and there was a downhill grade of 1 in 10 outside the front gate.

New laws for motor campers entering the State of California specify an axe of at least 21b weight with an Sin blade, and no camp Are may be started in any of the National Forests until a written permit is obtained from the ranger on duty in the neighbourhood. This is in the hope of reducing the danger of forest fires. There are some roads upon which, for hours at a time, the motorist is subjected to a fine of £5 if caught smoking a cigarette.