Electric Solenoids operating valves on an internal combustion engine, you
ask ??? How about the Cadillac model a few years back with rockers controlled
by electrical signals so it could cruise on 4 cylinders after getting up to
speed on 8, and then 6, as it approached cruising speed ? Wasn't it referred
to as the 4-6-8 Cadillac Mileage Motor ? Another Motor Marvel relegated to
the dustbin of 20th Century Wonder Cures for All that Ails Your Auto ? At
least this one got put into production ..... Was it not a success ? Too much
maintenance involved ? Bruce, recalling waaaay back in my pre-teen years
when my very mechanically inclined uncle, who I saw as an expert on Anything
at
All Automotive, used to tell me he put so many gas-saving devices on a car he
once owned that he had to drain the tank every two weeks ! In my teen
years he had a super-neat '37 Chev coupe that I hoped & prayed would one day
be
mine ! Alas, and alack .....he sold it sometime in my twenties. Gone forever,
never to see my shop. Eventually, upon his passing, I did inherit a car
that he actually drove to the age of 82, when his eyesight got too poor for
any
more driving. That particular car was a tired out 1967 Camaro with a stock
six, and needing paint, brakes, body work & much TLC ...... Many of you saw
this car on the Salt in 2000 and 2001, well after my oldest son Doug first
treated it to much mechanical love, a great looking big block Chev, and Mopar
'Plum Crazy' paint ..... it was the biggest hit at his high school parking
lot.
He afterward traded it to my youngest boy, Darrell, who dragged it a few
times at Sears Point( NOT Infineon then )and then pulled it all apart for the
conversion to a Salt & dry lakes car ...... aka the Black Radon Engineering #
939 B/BFAltered. My uncle only saw my oldest son as a little boy still playing
with toy cars, and never got to see his younger brother, but I kinda think he
would have been pretty proud of what they did to his old stovebolt six
grocery getter .....
Here Endeth This Oldguy Rant ~
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