Description
Three color 5 3/4″ x 9″ ad for their Steel-Vent Piston Rings. There is a picture of the crook with the red and white striped shirt kneeling behind a car changing the license plate. The headline assures you that “Piston Rings need replacing too!” and the text tells you that “Oil pumping in your car flashes a warning that your piston rings are worn and should be replaced immediately”. It goes on by saying that, at that time, “replacing piston rings is a comparatively simple and inexpensive job”. It also talks about how changing to the Hastings Steel-Vent Piston Rings will cure several engine wear issues.
Source: February 1949 Popular Science.
