[HAM] Question for any Aussie member

[Kon Zissis]

Hi Geoff.
My parents left their village in northern Greece and they  migrated to
Australia in the early 1960's so therefore they don't know about what
the situation was like with petrol restrictions  here in Australia
during WW2.
I was born in 1971 so therefore I was not around to see the wood gas
powered cars used during WW2 and I have  not seen any surviving examples
of these particular  cars even though there are plenty of other
surviving vintage cars  from the pre WW2 era.
 
It would be interesting  to see what these cars looked like and how the
engines sounded and to know how often they needed to be refuelled and
how fast they could go.
 
All the best.
Kon 
 
Geoff Williamson wrote:
Quite right Malte, many cars were run on wood gas (char gas, charcoal  
gas etc. whatever you want to call it) including in Australia.  Kon  
simply isn't aware of such things and perhaps his family were not  
actually living here in Australia at the time.  It was relatively  
common as you say in Europe and out here in Australia due to  
restricted supply of gasoline, aka petrol.