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Old 09-30-2023, 01:42 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
There was a time when you'd hand pump the gas into a (5 gallon?) graduated glass cylinder where you could see what amount and color it was, then let gravity flow it into the vehicle.
My father told me similar pumps were still in use at some rural places in Amazon when he went there for the first time.
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