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Offline Lunchbox

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Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« on: April 22, 2007 - 08:29:32 PM »
This was mounted in my challenger back in the 70's, thought it was pretty neat.

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Offline JCWCuda

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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2007 - 11:40:40 PM »
thanks for showing me how OLD i'm getting  :roflsmiley: :horse:

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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007 - 01:58:49 AM »
Wow what is it?
How does it work?

I know some later aussie chryslers (VK-CL only) were available with a 'Fuel pacer' option - an amber warning light in a chromed bezel on the front of the right fender that glowed when the driver was driving uneconomically.

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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2007 - 03:06:36 AM »
thanks for showing me how OLD i'm getting  :roflsmiley: :horse:

Me too.   :walkaway:


I put one of those on my slant-six Dart back then.  :lol:


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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2007 - 05:48:35 AM »
Wow what is it?
How does it work?

I know some later aussie chryslers (VK-CL only) were available with a 'Fuel pacer' option - an amber warning light in a chromed bezel on the front of the right fender that glowed when the driver was driving uneconomically.

Just a vacuum gauge,  some US models had them stock in the late '70s 
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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2007 - 06:14:47 AM »
Yep, guess that accounts for my answer to the "age" poll.  If you keep your foot out of it you'll get better gas mileage, but what fun is that  :naughty:
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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2007 - 08:45:15 PM »
OMG I do remember those.  :faint:
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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2007 - 04:35:11 AM »
I haven't seen one of those in over 20 some yrs. Wow.
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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2007 - 02:45:26 PM »
Well if it makes you feel any better, a LOT of cars come with those todays.  Saw 'em a lot while I was a ford tech just last year.  So I guess what's old is new again.

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Re: Anyone remember these fuel savers?
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2007 - 05:34:24 PM »
yaknow I wanted to say I saw an ECONOMY gauge recently but wasn't sure it wasn't just another flashback  :-\
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