G.R. Patterson III wrote:


Margy Natalie wrote:

Hence car gas was
"white", but that wasn't the White Gas they sold for Coleman stoves.


Actually, car gas was a yellow or amber color (I suppose from the lead). Only
Amoco sold unleaded in the fifties, so that's where we went to fill up the
Coleman lantern.

What did you call the real white gas that Coleman and others sell for
lanterns and stoves?

Matt