Charlie,
LPG was very popular here on large cars in the 50's-80's after which a
decline set in. The LPG installation was difficult and expensive to
adapt to modern fuel injection controlled by computer and oxygen sensor.
At some time about 20% of the cars were running on LPG, now it is less
than 5%. I still run my old Landrover SIII on LPG.
Often the tanks are hidden in the spare wheel well, however this is
rather unpractical as the capacity is not very high. Mainly the tanks
are the 60 or 80 liters variety hidden in the boot.
The old Volvo engine was very suitable to convert to LPG.
Kees Oudesluijs
Charlie Baldwin wrote:
> Kees,
> Is it fairly common in The Netherlands to have cars running on LPG?
> The reason that I ask is that several years ago a Dutch vintage Volvo
> club was here in the US to tour across the country for several
> months. Some friends and I met up with them early in the tour in
> Gettysburg, PA. Most all of these car were equipped to run on LPG and
> most had to convert back to gasoline to do the tour here. These were
> Volvos from the late '50s & '60s generally which had SU carbs.
> One of the things that I wondered is where they hid the tanks for the
> LPG if they also had the original gasoline tank too.
> Charlie
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