He rebuilt, or at least disassembled and cleaned the carb after every night's racing. That fuel mix was also known to eat the bottom out of a 5 gallon steel GI fuel can on a couple of occasions I'm aware of!
Jerry

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Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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