Non-inflammable. If it’s spraying fuel in the exhaust pipe? In the old days, guys would install a spark plug in the tail pipe, hooked to a coil & momentary switch.
My uncle (2 years older than me) was showing the same stunt, got rolling, cut ignition as he gave it gas and yanked the choke. When he switched on the engine there was a huge bang and the back of the car lit up.
3rd time, he neatly split the muffler at the seam. The ride home was in silence, except for the rumbling exhaust. How to explain this to granddad?
For $2.00?
Even in the '50s, that would have been unnaturally cheap for a length of fuel line, clamps, wiring, and an igniter of some sort.
I think that this “accessory” was actually some kind of streamer-like device that was clamped to the tailpipe.
Hmmm, Grandpa just put the bike together for his Grand Daughter and is trying it out?
Having read many JC Whitney ads and deciphered the hype, yeah I agree they were just some kind of “non-flammable” streamers. I never noticed an ad though for balloons to mount on the wheels to make that blub blub blub sound though, but maybe it was there somewhere.
I don’t know about that kit, but the ones in the late 50’s were
simply a piece of exhaust pipe, or a screw in fitting, and a
switch. All other parts were up to the hotrodder to supply. Most
didn’t have a fuel spray, but I remember one being installed.
(Never saw it work, and that was probably 1958.)
If it’s spraying fuel in the exhaust pipe? In the old days, guys would install a spark plug in the tail pipe, hooked to a coil & momentary switch.