1962 Indy 500 Rodger Ward Autolite Spark Plugs - 2-Page Vintage Car Racing Ad for Sale

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1962 Indy 500 Rodger Ward Autolite Spark Plugs - 2-Page Vintage Car Racing Ad For Sale

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1962 Indy 500 Rodger Ward Autolite Spark Plugs - 2-Page Vintage Car Racing Ad
Original, Vintage Magazine AdvertisementPage Size: Approx. 8\" x 11\" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good
Records and Traditions Die Hard at the Brick Yard.Oid Timers looked twice when eight cars showedup for this year\'s Indy 500 with a new kind of sparkplug under the hood. Such things just aren\'t donein winning circles. Three hours and 34 minutes laterit was done. The Silver Fox, Rodger Ward, had hisLeader Card 500 Roadster in the winner’s circle anda new record 140.292 mph, under his belt. TeammateLen Sutton had a solid second to his credit. Andsmiling Eddie Sachs, who started so far back hecouldn\'t see the starter\'s flag, had done the im-possible. Driving close enough to the wall to carvehis initials in it, he left everybody but Ward andSutton in an insolent trail of exhaust fumes to take awell deserved third. All of the first three finishersbroke the old track record. All of them thumbedtheir noses at tradition and ran with Autolite SparkPlugs under the hood. Accident? One-in-a-millionfluke? Read on.It all started at Daytona Speed Weeks. Five bigraces. Three new records. And a strange thing incommon about all of them. The NASCAR Conti-nental. 34 GT and sports cars take off. Three hourslater Dan Gurney takes the checkered flag. Whofinished behind him? Phil Hill, Stirling Moss and 31others. Lift the hood of Dan\'s Lotus XIX. Outrightheresy. Autolite Spark Plugs.First 100 Mile Stock. Fireball Roberts romps.Speed (a world’s record for 100 miles) 156.999mph. Spark Plugs: Autolite.Second 100 Mile Stock. Joe Weatherly’s turn.Spark Plugs: Autolite.The 250 Mile Modified National Championship.54 \"anything goes” tigers take off. By the half-waymark, all but 28 of them are in the pits. Odd. Everycar left in the race is using Autolite Spark Plugs.Winner Lee Roy Yarbrough. Car: Modified \'56 Ford.Speed 146.723. Spark Plugs? Modesty prevents us.The big one. The Daytona 500. Briefly, Fireballfried \'em. Speed: 152.529, the fastest five hundredmiles ever achieved in an automobile. Spark Plugs:old reliable, what else?Chaos at Charlotte. Nelson Stacy sets new worldrecord for 600 miles. 125.552. Autolite equippedcars take 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Revolt at Rebel 300. Stacyagain and his \'62 Ford. Autolite equipped carsfinish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10.What\'s ail this add up to? Simply this. Cars usingAutolite Spark Plugs have won every major stock,modified and sprint car race since January 1.All the preceding might lead one to believeAutolite Spark Plugs are a must for race drivers.But what’s that got to do with rush hour traffic inCedar Falls? Good question. Here’s the answer. Notin terms of \"if racers use them they must be best,”but in some rather technical details on how webuild our spark plugs. We hope you\'ll read itthrough, it’s important.Let’s start with compression leakage. To solvethis problem racing spark plugs are heat sealed. Soare aircraft spark plugs. All of them. Even the onesbuilt by our competitors. The insulator is fused tothe steel shell under tremendous heat and pressure.This is the most positive way known to preventcompression leakage.And because it is the most positive way, Autoliteheat seals every single spark plug it makes. Doesn\'teverybody? Unfortunately, no. Only about half thestandard automobile spark plugs sold are. So nexttime you plug those holes in your engine, makesure it’s a tight fit. Ask for Autolite.Another point—if you own an overhead valveengine (and 95% of you do)—about fouling in citytraffic. We’ve done something about it. Built a newkind of spark plug called Power Tip. Has a longerelectrode made of a special heat resistant alloy.The electrode, or firing tip, reaches deeper into thefierce heat of engine combustion. Actually uses theheat of your engine to burn fouling deposits away.Autolite Power Tip is the spark plug that cleansitself while you drive. If deposits have your mileageon the run, give \'em a try.Now that we\'ve stated our case, we hope you\'reinclined to try our products. You\'ll be glad you did.And don\'t get us wrong. We’ve got nothing againsttradition. In fact, we’re starting one of our own.i SPARK PLUGS • BATTERIES • SERVICE PARTSAUTOUTETHE NAME TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU CARE FOR YOUR CAR13945-6208-36