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Woman Drives Overland Across Continent.A Thousand Dollar Overland is now being driven from New York to San Francisco by a woman, absolutely without masculine assistance. She will make all her own adjustments and will demonstrate to the automobile world why the Overland is the ideal car for a woman to drive.The Girl.Miss Blanche Stuart Scott, of Rochester, N. Y., started early in May from New York City, enroute for San Francisco. She will tour leisurely, stopping at every important town on her route. She will be unaccompanied, save for a woman companion. Miss Scott is an amateur driver, who possess only a fair knowledge of automobiles. But she has unbounded faith in her Overland and is determined to accomplish the trip. Her determination, together with the ideal car, will carry her through successfully.The Car.The car is a regular stock Model 38, $1,000 Overland. A large luggage box on the rear deck and a couple of spare tires form the only extra equipment. Aside from these points the car is exactly the same as any other Model 38 Overland. You can buy its duplicate here for the same price.Simplicity.Such a trip would be impossible in an ordinary car. A skilled mechanic would be necessary to attend to mechanical derangements. But the Overland is so simple and so trouble-proof tbat the veriest novice can successfully operate it from the very start. All complex mechanism has been eliminated in this car.An Ideal Woman’s Car.The day of the electric is passing.Gasoline cars have reached such a high state of perfection that they now prove themselves far superior for women’s use. If we can show you a car just as simple as the electric, far more economical—both in price and upkeep,—and with an incomparably larger touring radius, doesn’t the balance swing in favor of the gasoline car? We have such a car and will be pleased to demonstrate.Overland Model 38-price, $1,000. 25 h. p.—102 inch wheel base. Wit-single rumble seat, $1,050—double rumble seat, $1,075-complete Toy Ton neau, $1,100.G. E. Coulbourn, Nassawadox, Va. Agent for Eastern Shore.Bloxom Bros., Mappsville, Va.,Sub-Agents.
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Big Stone Gap Post
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, US
Wed, Jun 11, 1919
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