FWD: Re: Cold weather hard starting solution?

[A bear in his natural habitat <burden@rhett.ENET.dec.com>]

>The 914/6 (914 with a six cylinder Weber carbed 911 engine -- a fun and fast 
>way to die!) came with a "throttle lever" that was mounted on the transmission 
>tunnel, next to the shifter, driver's side.  Pulling up on it would cause it to 
>pull on the gas pedal just a little bit, kinda like a 'ghost foot' pushing on 
>the gas pedal to keep the idle up until the engine warmed up.  Basically it's 
>just a manual choke.  But I think it would be less, uhm, hassle than the 
>propane method and wouldn't require the driver to keep their foot on the gas 
>pedal as the engine warms up.  It's something I'm contemplating for my baby.

The Fiat 128 had a similar knob on the dash.  You'd pull it out to the desired 
setting and then turn it to lock it in place.  It also worked as a crude cruise 
control, as long as you were on level ground.  Then again, our '24 Studebaker 
has a throttle control lever on the steering wheel.

Dave