[Bob Carriere]

The secret was to start on gasoline and switch the petcock to kerosene once the engine was warm enough....... mind you with the shortage of tires the old bald tires would not last very long....... and going down the road everyone suspected you were either running booze or something illegal. My dad drove a 38 Dodge with two spares in the side mounted racks of the front fenders...... both were flats........ you would not dare leave a vehicle parked with good spares screwed in place with a chromed clamp. The real spare was in the back boot. His allowance was 3 gallons a month due to his on call work at a steam plant. He even retro fitted a fuel hand primer pump as per the military Dodge trucks.... The fabric tar coated roof leaked and the engine smoked badly....... and sold it after the war to a demoblized soldier for $500 as running cars were so scarce....... then bought a 1941 Oldsmobile business coupe that needed the oil topped off everytime he bought gas...... a tire was good even if the fabric was showing as long as it held air for a few days.....