Re: accelerator pedal

Posted by su8overdrive On 2013/5/31 18:10:36

Like JW, i too added a pushbutton under the dash tho' to the immediate left of the steering column of my '47 Super Clipper, where i also have the toggle for the electric fuel pump i use to prime the system after the car's been sitting.

I installed it for the same reasons JW did, tho' i always wind up using the accelerator pedal start switch which works fine, a silly marketing ploy Packard got from Buick and Olds--- perhaps more of the nonsense those GM execs East Grand brought in during 1933-34 to teach the Company how to build the One Twenty but stayed to run Packard into numbness by the late '40s.

The '51 200 i had long ago in my 20s always started readily, but then the 356 as in JW's, HH56's and some of the above posters' cars has a notoriously touchy choke.

My '40 120's automatic choke, like the automatic choke on my '51's 288, never gave the least impediment.

BTW and off subject, but it's comical that some new cars aimed at the happening kid market have

starter buttons on the dash.