Hey Who Thof Chasing the By -J? I -2t -VO- 1 i Lookout, Bug. They're after you. They want to stomp you so far down the sales charts that By Bill Knutson Post-Crescent Staff Writer I Americans will talk of you like they talk of their own Edsel, Corvair, Packard and DeSoto. And you know what that means. Above is the classic Volkswagen "bug," the target of three new American-made At right' 'is American Motors'.
Gremlin. Below that is Ford's Pinto, and the bottom car is Chevrolet's Vega. (Post-Crescent Photos) lilt Sunday Post-Crescent El car. Or as you would drive yours. I've never owned a little car.
And chances are I won't for a while. Not with a wife and three kids, a one stall garage and a one car salary. Besides, I like full size cars. But I found in the past couple of weeks that it's easy to get attached to the little ones. They're fun to drive.
There are a few other blanket statements that can be made about the four cars. They are all comparable in size wheelbases do not vary more than a few inches), base prices do not vary more than $125, fuel consumption on any of the four cars should average between 23 and 26 miles per gallon, none of the four cars are hot rods but instead are functional economy cars, and I wouldn't want to ride from Appleton to Oshkosh in the back seat of any of the four. The three little "home made" cars have a lot to offer. And they might well be what the American automobile industry needs to put the run on those pesty little foreigners. But that funny looking little German car has a lot to offer, too.
And it will have more in 1971. Any way, on with the test drive reports. Pinto Ford has bred a colt to run with its popular Maverick and Mustang. The car I used was a little yellow-gold filly that carried a $2,137 price tag (base price was The Pinto, which at first glance looks like its big brother, the Maverick, comes in only one body style, the two door. My test car had a standard, 1600 c.c, four cylinder engine (made in England and long used in Ford's Cortina) that turns out 75 horsepower.
The car had a four speed, floor shift, also a standard feature. An automatic transmission is available with the 2000 c.c. German made engine lfm Snowmobilers: Check Now on New Regulations This year, like never before, American car. manufacturers are out to put the 1 It: 15-30 miles is desirable, 40-50 miles maximum, and 5-10 miles minimum. Topography and land should be varied to maintain user interest, and take advantage of scenic, historic, natural and educational features along the routes.
Spur routes should be built into especially interesting areas, rather than running the main trail directly into them, DNR advised. City Slicker Can Find Wilderness October 4, 1970 reins on the galloping small, foreign car market which for years has been paced by the Volkswagen (the Bug). That market has given this nation's car makers a contagious case of the jitters as sales of Japan's Datsun and Toyota and France's long popular Renault also continue to climb. Three American car builders have come up with what they hope is an antidote for their jitters. It's the mini compact.
For American Motors, it takes the form of the Gremlin. General Motors points to its Chevrolet Vega and Ford is pinning its hopes on the little Pinto. I recently drove the three new mini compacts and a 1970 VW (the 1971s were due in the following week). I'm not a test driver in the sense that Detroit or Kenosha or Wolfsburg (that's where the Bugs are hatched) think of a test driver. I didn't measure brake surfaces on each car.
I didn't concern myself with engine displacement, bore and stroke, the number of main bearings or axle ratios. Instead, I drove each of the four midgets much as I would drive my own it if ber, Diane Wissink, qualified at the Winnebago County Fair horseshow for the recent state competition at West Allis. They "did all right," they said, at the county fair in August. Mary and her pony, Larigo's Top Honor, won the only blue ribbon given by the judge in her showmanship class. Girl and pony went on to take a second in a pleasure driving class in which no blue was awarded.
Mary was named alternate to Randy Gilbertson, Neenah, the county's representative in the champion showmanship division, top event in the state show. Top Honor, called Jet, is especially Mary's project. She has trained the pony herself from the colt stage. Mary rides in shows, too, but Jet, in the under 46-inch high division, is her very own project. Janis and her Miss Bea Haven won the top award in the American saddle breed at halter competition, a second in English horsemanship and the only blue in English pleasure class.
It is Janis' last year in 4-H competition. She has finished high school and is working for a veterinarian where she can continue her interest in horses and animals. Linda with So Fancy came through the county competition with red ribbons in showmanship and English horsemanship and a pink in pleasure class. In her first county fair competition, fa Win ''V: MMii "if Fresno, past talus slopes and around bald granite domes they drove, rode horseback and sometimes walked when saddles wore through jeans. "Tell 'em it was a wild bronc, never before ridden," Greg Pappas pleaded while the others laughed until they ached The Greek bartender, cook for the trip, had fallen from his horse but felt no immediate pain.
He would later use bourbon whiskey mixed with blue cheese to make a salad dressing. The Sierra was beautiful. Few people. Lots of fish. A stream within 10 feet of camp.
It didn't last Gene Rose, a Fresno photographer and avid backpacker, brought a 3-pound nylon tent He needed it At 11:45 the first night the skies opened. "It'll pass over," Jim Forbes said from his sleeping bag. But everyone skurried for cover beneath an 18x24-foot tarp spread above the eating area. It hailed. It rained and rained some more.
Lightning painted the black sky a splotchy white, sometimes striking close. Forbes' new goose downfilled sleeping bag was sopped. He awoke the next morning with only his jean jacket dry. Temperatures hovered in the "you could see your breath" range. Nineteen head of animals were gone, pushed up the valley of Red Mountain Basin by the storm and in search of grass.
Anderson didn't mind. Rubbing sore spots, he said: "I couldn't keep that horse from trottin'." Fish caught and fried the night before were eaten at breakfast with eggs and te-inch thick ham slabs. The Sierra Nevada probably is the most heavily used mountain region in the nation Horse and foot paths are gouged' deep in the meadows. And they're getting deeper as more and more people strap on backpacks or ride horses into the back-country, seeking sanctuary away from the congestion, noise and pollution of urban areas. Sixty hikers were coming out as the horseparty went in.
But 15 miles off the main roads there were few others. Only six persons in three camps. "Isn't-this beautiful country," said Rose as he and three others crossed the meadow to Rae Lake, there to catch brook trout by the dozens. Most were returned to the water. Anyone willing to Continued On Page 2 nn MP' HIDDEN CAMP, Calif.
(AP) Its 20 million persons and massive urban By Steve Moore Associated Press Writer problems aside, California still offers a man the chance to ride into the rising sun alone Free of besmudged Hiking to Hell for Sure Pass Fishing in myriad lakes, or in streams winding toward the Pacific Ocean Camping here in the John Muir Wilderness among the lodgepole pine of the HighSierra, a craggy mountain chain separating the nation's most populous state from its eastern neighbors "There's not much meat in the air up here," said Andy Anderson, 63, of San Luis Obispo, as he panted his way into camp following a 14-mile horseback ride. Anderson and 10 others, mostly city slickers, spent three days here near the shores of Fleming Lake, and within a short hike of a dozen other lakes: Rae, Upper Indian, Lower Indian. All would yield fresh mountain trout in large numbers for anglers with the yen and the fortitude to battle man-eating mosquito hordes. From Dave and Dean's Pack Station at Dinkey Creek, about 70 miles east of (95 horsepower) and a four speed will be available with the larger mill after Jahr; 1. The first thing that struck me about the Pinto was its height or lack of it The car is a towering 50 inches tall, but it's an easy car to enter and exit, thanks in part to wide doors.
The back seat, besides offering little Continued On Page 2 5 4 i 1 Diane and Jessica, the pony she shows, won a red ribbon in showmanship and a white in pony driving. Jessica is "sort of leased" by Diane in exchange for her grooming and exercise services and Diane earns her own show expenses as weU. The Paramount Club's other horse project members didn't do too badly, either. Katy Kubiak with Satchmo King HI won fourth place ribbons while Mary and Beth Walters came away with a third and a fourth place. They show a horse kept at a Neenah stable and for which they work at babysitting and other jobs to maintain him in a manner to which he is accustomed.
For the girls and their horses, competition begins every year in May and lasts until early November' when the weather shuts down the open air shows. Most weekends during the season at least one of the Paramount Club's horse project group competes at a. show. Sometimes all are showing. One member showed in the Madison Imperial and two in the Marian College show, events which attract horses and riders from 10 or more states and run for three and four days.
Other shows, the weekend ones, attract area and 'Wisconsin people. Mrs. Olp said the girls are congenial and mutually helpful except in the show Continued On Page 3 MADISON When the roar of the snowmobile is heard again in the snow covered countryside of Wisconsin next winter, the first of the publicly sponsored snowmobile trails authorized in recent state legislation will be available to encourage the latest boom in winter recreational activity. A new registration law provides for the payment of a $6 fee for a three-year license which is now required for the legal operation of the popular new machines in which thousands of Wisconsin residents and visitors bounce about in wintry woods and fields. It is estimated, without substantiating records because the registration law became effective only a few months ago, that the number of the machines in the State is now approaching 100,000.
Most of the. registration revenues will be dedicated to the construction of. snowmobile trails and other facilities to benefit the of the machines, through a program of grants in aid to counties which are willing to use public lands for the purpose. While the snowmobile boom has delighted the officials and residents of upper Wisconsin who are constantly on the alert for opportunities to expand their vital recreational base, both the legislature and the administrators who will be responsible for the administration of the snowmobile program inf erentially acknowledge that the snow-hopping vehicles are not universally popular. A part of the reason for the registration act was to provide tools for law enforcement officials in identifying reckless operators of the machines, and those who sometimes trespass upon and damage private property.
The trail program is designed in part to satisfy the demands of snowmobile owner organizations for a recognition of their winter sport, and to pacify many property owners who have complained about damage caused by careless operation of the vehicles. The state board of natural resources on the same day that it was adopting guidelines for the snowmobile trail program for the guidance of the administrators of the department of natural resources also asked the DNR to consider a research project to determine the validity of public complaints that the "nature of this activity (snowmobiling)" tends to contribute to natural resource deterioration and interference with other outdoor recreational activity. The guidelines for trail development of DNR, now distributed to county officials, suggest that the first emphasis will be on trail construction, but that auxiliary facilities including sanitary equipment, warming places and others may come later. The principal standards for the trails will include: A minimum tread for one way trails of six feet. A minimum tread for two way trails of 12 feet.
A minimum turning radius of 25 feet. A maximum grade and slope of 25 per cent. Clearance of 10 feet above the trail. Removal of brush from the area two feet outside the trail edge. DNR told counties that a trail length of Trio Lives for Horses OSHKOSH Some kids live for horses, and it can have a pretty far-reaching effect.
Take three Oshkosh girls, Mary Olp, 16; Linda Tadych, 17, and Janis Gerrits, 18. Where they put their spending money, their baby-sitting money and their best efforts is with horses. They love them, especially their own. The three are members of the urban-based Paramount 4-H Club horse project which includes seven members, and they are good enough at stable work to earn the keep of their four-footed darlings by doing it. They are part time stable hands at Paramount Stables, a horse boarding establishment at the Winnebago County fair grounds run by Mary's mother, Carol.
daily efforts with broom, pail and shovel, offset the expense of keeping their horses, the boarding, shoeing, veterinary costs and the show expenses. They buy riding wardrobes of trim jodhpurs and pastel coats or the Western jeans and ruffled shirts they wear in the show ring. "I guess they spend almost all their free time out here at the stable," Mrs. Olp said. "When they're not helping with the stable work they're working on their own horses.
They really love horses. I guess you might say that 'where there's a will there's a way to be with Thesegirls certainly prove it." The three girls with fellow 4-H mem -Couple fulfills dream with world tour Page 4 Drivo Whafs happened te the good old Sunday drive? Page 5 Bedroom Make that bedroom a usable place Page 6 Dramatic Ranch home has angled family room Page 7.
