Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

Stumbled across this earlier this morning and glancing through the description came across a slip that just about sums up the item:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FUEL-SAVER-PETROL-SAVE-20-NEW-CLASSIC-CAR-/310305485280?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item483fa5f1e0

Read the first line, paragraph three : "cock-tale" - describes it perfectly!! Laughing

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Also at the end

"Fitted to all my vegicles"
Must be painful

Wonder if he wears a steel helmet to stop all the gama rays from shwinking his bwain.

Laughing

Roger

Geoffp · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:07 pm Post subject:

pigtin · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay

Knew an American serviceman back in the seventies, he'd fitted it to a Rover 2000 he was using over here. Swore by it, said it saved him a fortune in fuel but I had to wonder what he usually drove back in the States.
_________________
Due to the onset of my mid eighties I'm no longer sprightly and rarely seen in my Austin special. I have written a book though. https://amzn.eu/d/7rwRRqL

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I once advertised a fuel saver on ebay auctions.It was a wooden block from a pallet that you tied under the accelerator pedal.I explained although it would save you petrol it was no good if you lived at the bottom of a hill and your journeys would be much longer.
Although i did it as a joke I was amazed that 1.It sold and 2. I had a lot of genuine enquiries for buying another.It proves you don't need a brain to drive a car or use ebay.
Ebay is the last refuge for junk like this.
If I add one of them,stick the £40 air gun pellets in my tank and put a can of the snake oil in the sump will my Rover P5B might do better miles than a smart car?.
Oh No! that ruddy pigs just flown in the window again.
_________________
Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

traction39 · Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 399 Location: South Wales

Blimey.. 10000 to 15000 Gauss. Wouldn't want my vegicles caught between two of those!
If he has no offers, could always re-brand them as "sperm" reducers! Just as effective!

Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Now now lads remember this is a cock-tale, is it only hens that lay eggs i think the person has got it right ,there is no mug like a right one!. Believe or not i have a fuel saving device it fits between a carb and manifold the middle of this device is like a honeycomb and i would suspect that it was to atomise the fuel more which on some old cars may and i mean may have helped its brand new so i cannot verify anything it was supposed to do,but of course there is always steam vapour that was tried and claimed to give better running even being tried on a racing car that was run without a radiator and it was not air cooled.

RotaryBri · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick

I see that it had good results on White Van Men. Now where did they fit it?

Or is that another cock tale?
_________________
Keep Torqueing,

RotaryBri

1976 NSU Ro80