Floyd Rogers
"White gas" as sold in the US was a "low cut gasoline" that was between a conventional modern gasoline and a kerosene. It would run in "kerosene" tractors, many older gas tractors, and old cars with low compression as well as work in lanterns made for it. Modern Coleman fuel is similar but not the same. Aviation gasoline was-and is-similar to "white gas" with a LOT of TEL added. The lowest grade of avgas was 80-87, dyed red, which was usually about 76 R=M-2 octane and would not run any modern car very satisfactorily. Foreign car dealers used to sell Simcas with low compression French built V-8-60 flathead Ford engines and three cylinder DKWs in the late fifties and early sixties by telling rural customers they would burn white gas, which was untaxed as a farm product. And they would. It's called "appeal to the customer's sense of larceny". They were otherwise cantankerous and expensive cars to maintain.
The military multifuel engine trucks eat it pretty well as well, which is why the military would buy it as "mogas". Pilots call automobile gasoline "mogas" as well, but they are NOT the same.
It's interesting to note that the terms "gasoline" and "kerosene" are not hard and fast categories. Gasoline is, or gasolines are, mixtures of dozens of hydrocarbon products fractioned off crude oil and blended to give certain characteristics. Kerosenes are a little more straightforward, but they are vague terms to a petrochemist.
