Jack Talbert
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Jack Daniel Talbert (born December 19, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, best known for his promotion of a gasoline vapor induction device for internal combustion engines.
[edit] Carburetor work
Picking up his fathers’ research, Jack Talbert fit George Talbert’s fuel system onto a 1981 Oldsmobile Delta 88.[1][2]
Jack's father, George Talbert, co-developed a new carburetor together with Tom Ogle of El Paso, Texas in the 1970s.Talbert claimed that with the modified carburetor, the vintage Oldsmobile, which normally got 12 miles per gallon, was averaging 49 miles per gallon on the highway and 70 mpg around town.[1] The system, however, greatly reduced the car's power: when achieving its highest miles per gallon, the car would take 2 minutes to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour. Talbert actually stopped driving the modified car on business trips because he felt he needed more power.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Family tradition carried on in Delta 88". KTKA.com. 2006-07-06. http://www.ktka.com/news/2006/jul/06/family_tradition_carried_delta_88/. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ^ a b "Man fights the pain at the pump 06/13/06". Cjonline.com. 2006-06-13. http://www.cjonline.com/stories/061306/bus_inventor.shtml. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
