Vitameter Tanks

[junior]

Never heard of such an animal until I saw a pair on a 53 K while flipping through ancient car magazines. Does anyone have one on their Stude? Hot Rod Mag. just installed a water injection tank on a new Camaro...what comes around goes around...lets see, first WW2 fighter planes, then 50's hot rods, then early 60's factory Olds(I think), then late 70's muscle cars with lousy gas, now again in 2010. Hey Flashback, why not install one on your hotrod Stude?? Junior



54 Champ C5 Hamilton car. In my family since 1958.

[Dick Steinkamp]

I owned this '62 Jetfire a few years ago...





It had a turbo charged aluminum V8. Pretty cool for the day.

Oldmobile sold the "Turbo Rocket Fuel"...



...I think it was little more than water and alcohol, but a good profit item for Oldsmobile.





Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA

[Flashback]

Hey Junior, As a matter of fact I did try something like this.
Almquist Engineering, (in days past) advertised something like
this. Popular science, or Popular mechanics, had a article in
somewhere about 57 or 58, showing how to build one, using the caso
method. I put one on my 51 Chevy, with a 235 in it. I also added,
(at their suggestion in the article) a little "windmill" type
thingy between the carb and manifold. Supercharger, if you will.
Already had a 12V system, so I added a big Buick heater blower
motor to pump air in the carb. Kinda like a electric supercharger.
Why don't I put one on my Hot Rod? Cause,it all seemed to work up
to about 50 mph, then it slowed you down.[:I][:I]

Tex E. Grier