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Re: Running on battery only

To: emanteno@attglobal.net
Subject: Re: Running on battery only
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.uofs.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: bschwart@pacbell.net (Barry Schwartz), spitfires@autox.team.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
According to Irv Korey:
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
> 
> >Does it appear that I will be able
> >to make it home with a decent (2 maybe 3 year old) group 42 battery?  I
> >have to start the car too remember, and there will be no charging before,
> >during and after -
> 
> Someone in our club was able to drive his Spitfire for about 4 hours on the
> battery only when his alternator gave up in the middle of nowhere on a
> Sunday afternoon. You should have no problem.
> 

4 hours!!  I drove mine for almost two weeks and 300 miles before the
battery ran down enough to not turn the starter.  Of course, at this 
point I was 70 miles from home.  No problem.  I pushed the car about
10 feet, the wife popped the clutch in reverse, the car started.  We
then drove it the 70 miles to get home.  A lot to be said for cars
with mechanical fuel pumps (and mechanical everything else for that
matter.  I would think in an emergency I could push start the car and
drive it in daylight using only a pair of lantern batteries.

bill

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