Thank you people for your replies! I appreciate the input, will try freeing the sticky plungers...

Suppose we kept the car as original as possible, which means keeping the engine, what is a less invasive/destructive way to add horses (to make possible the urban driving and crazy merges here where we live)?

I'd consider many different things...and what of your turbo, bgkast?

Noted, on your plea to not do the WVO conversion...would consider other things such as running a mix of diesel and highly filtered rice oil from some good sources I have, even possibly making biodiesel. The only thing I hate about biodiesel is dependence on methanol, which could get capriciously pricey if popularity rises. Cheers, anyhow...