I used to have a '48 Dodge farm truck with a 6 volt system and it sat around quite a bit when I wasn't harvesting or hauling livestock. Sometimes I would start it by hooking jumper cables to a 12 volt pickup and holding the positve cable directly onto the lug on the starter motor on the Dodge just long enough for it to start. I mention this, but I refuse to take responsibility for any negative outcomes from anyone else who tries it.
J.C. Whitney sold a special solenoid wherein you could install 2 six volt batteries and wire them through the solenoid. The batteries would run in paralell at 6 volts normally, but when starting they would switch to series and shoot 12 volts to the starter. I put one of these on the truck and it worked great, as long as it lasted. After about a year it quit working. If I still owned the truck, I would have converted it to 12 volts by now.
BTW, I was the fourth owner of the truck and I lived about 4 miles from the original owner. When I sold the truck on an auction, the original owner bought it back.
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