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The Signal -Star, November113; 1971—Car Care Supplement—Page. 6C
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How would you like to drive
into the winner's circle, only
you don't kriow where it is,
and .you don't know how to
get there, but you have to
arrive exactly on time?
Such is the task for en-
trants in . the Exploring Safe
Driving Road Rally, a nation-
al program for Exploring -age
boys and girls organized by
the Exploring 1pivihion of the
.Boy Scouts of/ America. -
With national sponsorship
by Lincoln-Mercury Division
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in a fall final event for $7,000
n.:.coliege 'scholarships „and'
the use of new car for a ,
year. ...
�ndustr .Sponsorship
Finalists are selected from °
local rally winners, organized
by Exploring divisions in area
Boy Scout Councils, often
with the .sponsorship of local
industry. For example, the
Toledo, Ohio area council
rally, which sent the only all -
girl team to the 1970 finals
in Detroit, is :sponsored by
Champion Spark Plug Com-
pany.
Rallying, a favorite pastime
for many in the "sports car"
set, is not a speed event, but
a competition' involving driv-
ing and navigation skill, plus
the ability to -
observe local
'traffic laws, against'-a;=clock.
Competitors run on a pre-
selected 'course, encounter all
types of driving conditions,
and progress is established_`
against a time factor known
to the -'rally -master-- via a -
number of checkpoints situ-
ated along the route.
Cars are sent from the
starting point at one minute
intervals and the navigator—
the passenger — is, handed a
detailed instruction and di-
rection list which will guide
the rally team to the finish
point.
Points are scored for arriv-
ing at checkpoints and the
finish' too soon or too late,_
and the team with the least
Points is the winner.'
Classes are also a factor.
Since time is the enemy, cars
with elaborate expensive
timing equipment are con-
sidered the "equipped" class.
Cars using° standard equip-
ment, and perhaps stop
watches, and a slide rul, fall
into the "unequipped" class.
Normally, the two classes do
not compete against one an-
other, but do run in the same
event. The ' Exploring ,rallies
are all * "unequipped."
Up To Navigator
One , important factor in
rally success is the navigator.
It's up to him -'- or her = to
advise the driver where to go,
how fast toproceed and for
how long. In the Exploring
events, an observer IS also al-
lowed in.-the....car to aid the
navigator.
The Exploring rally pro-
gram is an exarhple of the
modern, creative activities
available to young people.
Entrants need not be an
Explorer Scout to compete,
but if they qualify for the
hational event; are required •
to join. And the rally pro-
gram, demonstrates to the
conlpetitors, all racing does
not rely on ,high . speed, that
careful driving and concen-
tration is important for win-
ning, especially in abroad
rally.
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DOUBLE TROUBLE
A two percent -incidence, of
spark plug - misfire can more
than double the rate of hy-
drocarbon emissions from a
car's engine; according to
Champion Spark, Plug Com -
PAY.
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TWO PARTICIPANTS IN THE E'XPLORING'Grand•'National Safe Driving Road,
Rally mapped strate' i "tie ori star' bf't1 i si,c-hour, 125 -mile' ordeal. To get
there, finalists had to master series of elimination competitions involving
more than 23,000 rallyistssand i0;000 cars. The final runoffs are sponsored
by the Lincoln-Mercury Division, Ford Motor Company. • '
A key .ingredient of Champion Spark Plug Company's -Cleaner Air
Clinics is an eichaust analyzer which measures hydrocarbon and
carbon monoxide emissions produced by car engines. Various
ignition system malfunctions can increase these undesirable emis-
sions dramatically, showing the maintenance is a vital contribu-
tion to cleaner air.
Powder Puff Mechanics
THE BRAKES ,OF 'THE GAME -- Instructor Gene Flunker of
Neenah, Wisconsin, explains the .braking system to a group of
students at the YWCA Powder Puff'aMeclfanics course. The ladies
learn the rudiments of automobile operation in the class, one of
many offered by YW's throughout the United States and Canada.
(Photo courtesy of Twin City News -Record)
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