# Have you ever driven a car or truck with a carburetor? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-car-or-truck-with-a-carburetor/925911 "2020-11-18T19:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 107
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-car-or-truck-with-a-carburetor/925911/107 "2020-11-26T08:01:12Z")
[quote=“Jeff\_Lichtman, post:100, topic:925911, full:true”]…Has anyone here ever driven a car with a manual spark advance/retard lever? [/quote] Not on a regular basis, but a while ago my cool sister arranged for her and me to take a course in driving Model T Fords at a local museum: > [@Rocketeer drives a T](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocketeer-drives-a-t/786599): > > Yesterday my sister and I drove down to Tacoma, to the Marymount campus of the LeMay collection, where she had arranged for us to take a little class on driving a Model T Ford. The LeMay collection at one time was the largest private auto collection in the world. Harold LeMay, who made a fortune hauling garbage, had a sort of magpie instinct for collecting all kinds of stuff—but mostly cars. After his death, the family set up America’s Car Museum, a fancy museum in Tacoma, and kept a couple o… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-driven-a-car-or-truck-with-a-carburetor/925911)._