11-07-2020, 04:23 PM
When I was young some people used the word gas in a motoring context, like "stepping on the gas", "giving it the gas" etc., so I guess that even earlier it might not have been so much of an Americanism.
Motorcyclists had their own vocabulary, they spoke of "opening the taps", for example.
Motorcyclists had their own vocabulary, they spoke of "opening the taps", for example.