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Ignoramus5457
 
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Default WWII gasoline cooker?

The engine was running on carbon monoxide, product of partial
combustion of wood.

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On Thu, 25 May 2006 22:05:54 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The moonshine thread got me thinking. Remember the old WWII spy movies
where the French resistance was driving around in old Citrons with a cooker
on the back bumper. They threw some wood in and it produced something that
the car could run on.

How the heck did that work?