[Jeff Higgins]

It is astonishing to me that carburetors are becoming (or have become?) a lost art. They are simply intuitive to me. I have used them and worked on them and have been forced to understand them on everything from reed valve Cox .049 model airplane glow engines to two stroke and four stroke motorcycle engines to big block MOPAR drag engines to VW Beetle engines to lawnmower engines to Porsche engines to radial aircraft engines to... well, "everything" internal combustion. The mere notion that an entire generation (or two or three) of "gearheads" have come up behind me without this intuition is quite unbelievable to me. Yet I'm reminded, quite often, that that is, indeed, the case. Wow...