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echo: oldcars
to: ELVIS HARGROVE
from: JOHN DEMOTT
date: 1996-10-29 18:33:00
subject: Model A Gas

Hello Elvis!
28 Oct 96 09:21, Elvis Hargrove wrote to John Demott:
 EH> He knows his A bones, John.
 EH> Their compression ratio is so low that when kerosene was 12 cents a
 EH> gallon, (Gas was 26 cents) I'd run about half and half.  It _would_ run
 EH> plumb fine on pure kerosene, but was very hard to start with a crank
 EH> without at least SOME gasoline in the mix.
Agreed. I use to do the same as a teenager with my old chevy 6s when I was 
short of money (which was pretty much all the time).
But would you do that now with a restored auto?
John
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