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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1218113, member: 66&quot;]You&#039;d be surprised what kind of milage you could get out of those old cars if you ignored the factory specs.&nbsp; My first car was a 72 Delta 88 Oldsmobile with a 350 cubic inch rocket engine.&nbsp; It had been my fathers car and he never got better than 9 or 10 mpg out of it.&nbsp; I played with the timing and the fuel mix and the dwell for awhile and with over 100K miles on it I had it up to getting 23 mpg and it still had all the power it needed.&nbsp; OK so it was now 0 to 60 in 7 seconds instead of 6 so what.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why the fuel mileage on the cars went down so much in the 60&#039;s.&nbsp; I was listening to an episode of Gunsmoke from 1961 last week and they were advertising a 1961 Buick with a V8 engine that they claimed got 29 mpg.&nbsp; In 1989 I was watching a PBS show called last chance garage and they were showcasing 1950 Hudsons.&nbsp; A 2 1/2 ton steel behemoth with a 400 straight eight engine.&nbsp; They asked the owner what kind of mileage he got and he said 20 mpg.&nbsp; 60 years or engineering later and Detroit is proud of getting 23 mpg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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