ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTRIC?
Dear Reading your editor’s Viewpoint article in the latest edition, he mentioned how prohibitive petrol prices have become and the march of the electric cars. A few years ago, there was a big campaign promoting LPG for cars. At the time I ran a ’79 Mercury Marquis and had that converted to LPG. I never noticed any difference in performance from when it was running on petrol and I got the same mileage from a tank of LPG as I did from a tank of petrol, but about half the price, and recovered the conversion costs in about one and a half years. Fast forward to today and I have ’49 Buick Woodie that I run totally on LPG. (No petrol tank.) I did the installation myself, after going on a one-day course, run by Tinley Tec, based near Cambridge. All the parts are readily available from them,
