Re: CORN AND GAS THE EARLY YEARS

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/1/4 18:20:31

Vapor lock is mentioned in Packard (and other manufacturer's) owners manuals and service letters well before the advent of the gasohol era. Ethanol in gas certainly has exaggerated the problem, but it didn't cause it in and of itself.

I beg to differ with Roger about ethanol going away with the intro of tetraethylead in the 30s, I clearly remember seeing gasohol for sale in the Midwest in the 50s, though that product no doubt also contained TEL. I suspect it was a regional product of the corn belt.