Posted by Glen Idaho [64.126.154.243] on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 20:39:43 :
In Reply to: Positive Ground?? posted by The Dodge Boys [64.121.152.7] on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 20:34:03 :
I think it was to keep people from hooking up electric fuel pumps. They would run backwards and fill the tanks with gas, combining heat and hydrocarbons with air to make fuel.
Or maybe it was to make the contacts on the points last longer.
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