[Robert/Texas]

During WW2 our next-door neighbor ex-farmers had a ’31 Chevrolet and liked to take it to the beach, about 50 miles each way, during the summer months. Gas was rationed so they ran the car on kerosene. The man showed me how it was done. He had drilled a hole in the top of the float chamber and used a rubber plug to stop it. He used a syringe, similar to turkey a baster to fill and empty the chamber and used pure gas to start it. I don’t know if something else was mixed with the kerosene but don’t recall that it smoked much.