I probably went out to dinner with him in a fit of desperation back in the 70's, but I can't remember a thing about him.  Not even the colour of his eyes.

Now I'm a pretty big man around this town
I got me the hottest little Chevy around
My sweet little '66
She got a yellow front fender and a gray one on the back
But my income tax is comin' and I'm gonna paint her black
Sweet little '66

She got the 396, she got the four on the floor
And those stickers in the window ain't just for show
My sweet little '66

Now old Bubba and me built her back in '79
Then he went into the army so now she's all mine
Sweet little '66
I used to run her down on River Road and make a little dough
Can't afford another ticket so I'm laying kinda low
Me and my '66

Now she ain't too good on gasoline, she burns a little oil
But she was built by union labor on American soil
Sweet little '66
So when your Subaru is over and your Honda's history
I'll be blastin' down some back road with my baby next to me
In my sweet little 66

Your #2 

 

 

Huh! Major!

While sorting Wal Philips out, were you too young for these?

 

I never ever saw one

in real life. Loads of adverts though.

Wal Philips was the pioneer of small cheap mechanical fuel injectors for scooters and light motorbikes, Vespa 150s, Lambretta 200 GTs and  Enfield 200 cc 2-stroke (?)motorbikes

 

 

Something for nothing - that's what everybody would like - a couple of magic words and suddely your bike develops another ten brake horpe power!
This never happens and so you have to look around and decide just where your money is best spent. The answer is to improve the engine, but this usually means buying very expensive parts and also spending long weekends in stripdowns and testing. But we have found an item that you can buy and bolt on which will give a reasonable increase in performance, and that is a Wal Phillips fuel injector. M M has tried these out in the past and found them to be just as clean running and realible as a carburettor but correctly unied, they will give a higher top speed, increase acceleration and sometimes both. We had a pair of Lambrettas on test this month and this was an opportunity to try out a new injector designed specially for scooters.
Made by the sane firm, this injector is similar to the existing types, but it is much shorter so that it can be fitted to a Lambretta or Vespa without having to cut a hole in the side panel.
Having a stub fitting, is fitted straght on to the SX200 that we were trying out. The tubing which normally servers as an overflow pipe to the Dell'Orto carb can be used as a petrol pipe from the tap to the injector. Wal altered the adjustment very slightly and then the bike was tried out. These are the times that were recorded:

 

I seem to remember my contemopraries were very underwehelmed and the word was keep the carb You'll need to refiy it.