> My first car was a 39' Chevy and I drove it for a year without a
> battery.
 
EH>My first Model "A" was that way.  I drove it all through Hi School.
EH>The rich kids sure thought it was funny to watch "Hargrove winding up
EH>his piece of junk."
 
> I could just crank it.  The generator did the rest.
 
EH>Oh, mine HAD a battery. (I xpect yours did too.)  It was just unable to
EH>take and hold a charge.  My four banger was duck soup easy, but a six
EH>holer was a lot meaner to crank fast enough to make sparks. (I also had
EH>a '36)  Six volt batteries cost nearly 15 bucks in those days.  Gas was
EH>23 cents....
 
 Mine didn't have very good compression, but it did have enough to start
 with just a few hard twists on the crank.  And, no, it didn't even have
 a battery.  The empty 6 volt battery box was under the right front
 floorboard trap door and we hid things down in it, like a bottle of
 hooch...
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