Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: UNLEADED GAS - THE STRAIGHT SCOOP Message-ID: <1094@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 13:13:37 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1094 Posted: Sat Mar 9 13:13:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:05:42 EST References: <293@rduxb.UUCP> Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 28 In article <293@rduxb.UUCP> williams@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) writes: > The way I figure it, if it's some classic car you're worried >about, it probably doesn't get driven enough to matter. Otherwise, >who cares what happens to some old beater with a couple of hundred >thousand miles in it :-) There are some of us that enjoy driving older cars requiring leaded gas daily. People drive restored 1956 Beetles, 1968 Karmann Ghias, 1965 Porsche 911's, ... These are neither beaters not classics that just sit in the garage. > Personally, I'd rather run the high-test unleaded in my fresh >'69 Camaro 350 4-bbl. to prevent the destructive detonation from >occurring, than a lower-octane leaded. That way my $2000 worth of >machine shop work and new parts won't self destruct before I dump >another couple of $K into the body :-) I hope you realize that the (expensive) premium unleaded is often of no higher rating than regular leaded. \tom haapanen watmath!watdcsu!haapanen Don't cry, don't do anything No lies, back in the government No tears, party time is here again President Gas is up for president (c) Psychedelic Furs, 1982