This Day in History: 1927-01-13
In an ad in the Ramsey Journal, a Paterson Buick dealer, E. A. Browne, claimed that once again during 1926 more Buicks had toured through Yellowstone Park than any other brand of cars except for “the lowest price” make, presumably Fords. He claimed that this had been true of every year since the park was opened to automobile traffic. Of the 44,472 cars of 101 makes which entered for the year, 4,756, or about 10 percent were Buicks. He claimed that this was “convincing evidence of Buick’s reliability” Diivers would not trust their cars to the rugged roads of the Park unless they could be sure that they could negotiate the steep hills and sharp turns of the wilds. The dealer asserted that aBuick could take you “comfortably, safely and splendidly— across the Continent— or around the World.”
(Bristow)