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Sensational Driving Feats Highlight Pennzoil Records
L B Miller set an ocean to ocean record from San Francisco to New York in 79 hours 55 minutes and a round trip to Los Angeles totaling 167 hours 59 minutes aboard a Chrysler 80. Studebaker Commanders logged 25,000 miles at 65.31 mph. Captains Wilkins and Eielson flew Alaska to Spitzbergen nonstop, -2200 miles, in 60 degrees below zero. Pennzoil lubricants led in many categories including air and land records and Yosemite economy runs.
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Ab. Jenkins
Ray Peck
Studebaker
New York
San Francisco
L. B. Miller
Los Angeles
Pennzoil
George H. Wilkins
Carl B. Eielson
Alaska
Spitzbergen
Waserr
Art Goebel
Harry Tucker