Comment by crististm
6 years ago
Vapor lock was a thing in the time of carburetors.
This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
6 years ago
Vapor lock was a thing in the time of carburetors.
This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
Interesting. Fuel-injected aircraft engines get vapor lock—shutting down to refuel and then restarting can be a serious pain—but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a carbureted one doing it.
In Jefferson County, Colorado, the stretch of US 40 up into the foothills from the plains used have a lot of cars stalled by vapor lock along the shoulders. But I don't think I've seen a car stalled by vapor lock in forty years.
Neat. Sounds like I’ll be jumping down the rabbit hole to figure out why carbed cars vapor-lock but airplanes are the reverse. :)
It may be hard to recall but before the internet people shared stories, and the really good ones would spread quickly across the entire population. There were people back then too who would try to come up with things that would spread, maybe not with the same intent (or profits) as now, but still the overall effect was the same