Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Benito Remedies' roosters lost cockfights, Cubans said, he wrung the cowards' necks with his own hands. Once, when a brand-new $7,500 Cadillac refused to start, he riddled its recalcitrant carburetor with bullets...
General Motors' new models looked the same on the outside, but under the hood there were some important changes. Biggest improvement was the use of a new carburetor in the Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile. When the accelerator is pushed down more than halfway, the carburetor supplies the engine with 45% more air than formerly, boosts horsepower as much as 20%. The new Cadillac is boosted from 160 to 190 h.p. The Buick Roadmaster, which also has a higher compression ratio, is increased from 152 to 170 h.p., and Oldsmobile from 135 to 160. The three cars also have...
...make a repair stop (after only five laps) was favored Duke Nalon in his eight-cylinder, front-drive, supercharged Novi, the sleek white car that set a new qualifying record of 136.498 m.p.h. Nalon's trouble: fouled-up fuel injection nozzles, used instead of the standard downdraft carburetor...
Wuts in the Carburetor...
Only an exquisite talent explains a ticket on Quincy street. Of a line of forty cars, many of them sleek, foreign beauties, I acquired the only ticket. An adjacent vehicle had been parked so long the squirrels were storing acorns in its carburetor. Another rested with its front bumper peeling the bark from President Conant's prize hemlock tree. Who got the old tag? Don't ask ridiculous questions...