Yeah, kids these days...really.
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE: Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank
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Woodmobiles also appeared in the US, Asia and, particularly, Australia, which had 72,000 vehicles running on woodgas (source). Altogether, more than one million producer gas vehicles were used during World War Two.
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Edit: My dream in the 1980s was to have a schoolbus with the front bumper pushed out, a wood chipper running off the front pulley of the engine with a blower that would pump wood chips to a hopper on the rear roof through a 4-6" duct, and an wood alcohol still on the back porch feeding the original fuel tank. It's natural habitat would have been slash piles in the hills of the PNW.