"Bob Paulin" wrote
You are just lucky, Bob....or possibly the climate conditions and fuel conditions are kinder in your neck of the woods.
I still remember the one time I experienced this problem. Driving a 70 Ford XL with a 390 engine. Coming back from Kamloops (city in the middle of British Columbia) and was just past Golden and heading up into the Kicking Horse Pass (this is all in the middle of the Canadian Rockies) when the car began to lose power like crazy. As soon as you released the gas pedal, power would come back, but just enough to maintain about 25-30 miles an hour. It was late at night, nothing would have been open even if there had been anything out there. I managed to limp into Banff and on a whim, threw in a bottle of gas line anti-freeze. Beetled on home into Calgary doing 90 miles an hour. Since then, I always carried a bottle or two if and when I went on a long haul in cold weather. Of course, nothing has happened since then.
Ian