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In my youth one of my buddies was running kerosene as the fuel for his 1928 Tudor. Performance was mediocre but it ran. Octane when the car was new was far lower than any gasoline sold today.
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I don't know if Jack White (John D. White) of East Sandwich was among your buddies but he was my uncle and running a Model A on kerosene during WWII oil rationing. The memory was high on his memory list including having a "switch over" valve to start the car on gasoline, and do the swap on the fly.
Uncle Jack was a bit of an "institution" in East Sandwich - small town boy, long time member of the East Sandwich Volunteer Fire Department, gifted finish carpenter, and beach runner in his later 1930s vintage panel truck popularly known as "The Red Onion."
Joe K