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Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV
Was your Scout like the Mercedes with the lever you could shove down to stop the fuel (totally mechanical)? My Maxima is an '82 and has the electric fuel cut, so yours might have been an earlier different pump.
Charles
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The scout had a manual-choke-type control you had to pull out to choke off the engine. A pushbutton served as the manual glow plug control. It took sixty or more seconds of holding it in on a cold morning to start up. Then a Huge cloud of white smoke!
In an attempt to keep a bit on-thread: I think the Scout Traveller was among the first or maybe the first SUV. Put the kids in the back on a trip with a 12-volt color TV and VCR.
Military electronics, in order to be accepted, can go through an EMP test. I've hear the reason Russia, when it was the USSR, still used tubes in its military equipment was because of the insusceptibility of tubes to EMP.
I too have often wondered if my old points-and-condenser cars from the '60 would be usable after EMP. I suspect so.