Pardon my "g" in all this. It has quit working but by the hardest.

I had an interesting conversation with an old  man quite a  while back.
He is most likely dead and gone by now, but he told me a tale of owning
an old Omni that got 78 miles to the .gallon.

You see,  he tinkered a lot, and he tinkered with the Omni and built a
special  carburetor for it using one from a  Ford Pinto as the basis.  I
beleive those Pinto carbs were Holleys, if Im not mistaken.  Anyway, he
cobbled some parts together, including parts from an Audi, and parts of
a Pasche airbrush, installed it, tuned it,  tuned the motor, and arrived
at 78 plus miles per gallon, and that 78 was the lower mileage. Drove
the Omni all one summer, until he was hit by a drunk who totaled the
Omni and nearly him with it. He never ot back around to building up
another. To much trouble, and he was kind of crippled up from the
accident and hurt a lot.

I was wondering whether anyone else had heard of such from a credible
source. I know technology is held by the big powers that be,  but you
never know what  genius lurks in a barn or garage somewhere.

Albert Einstein was thought once to have a brain of sufficient use to
operate a milk truck, but nothing more. Turns out Einsteins genius was
in thinking things out first by reasoning. When he was sure of his
concepts, he would ask a dear friend who was a serious mathmatician to
run the mathamatical proofs for him.

So who knows what might be found in a barn or old garage somewhere.
Perhaps a fuel control that will enable 100 miles to the gallon of fuel,
or maybe even use banana peels to get 300 miles per fuel unit. Or an
engine for a space vehicle to drive it near the speed of light but be as
small as a Wasserboxer without it's accessories.

Who knows.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 gl driver