Fuel shortage? Here are some exotics on alternative power

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In times of shortage people tend to become more creative when it comes to the things they used to do before the shortage was there. So, for example, when there’s a petrol shortage motorists don’t simply queue up to wait in endless rows, moaning and groaning, to fill up their cars. They come up with ingenious alternatives to drive, don’t they?

Well, they did in the past. We’ve all heard of wood-gas generators powering the internal combustion engines of our beloved vehicles. These alternative fuels have some advantages but they have some disadvantages, too, of which the sheer size of the installation is just one.

You have probably seen old photographs or film footage of PreWarCars running on wood and/or coal. Most of these must have been converted everyday cars but we’ve found some photographs from the more exotic spectrum of vehicles kitted out with these alternative power conversions. Do you recognise any of them in the pictures seen here?

Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures courtesy of autopuzzles.com.

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