Re: [ihc] Maybe the End to My Wartime Motor :(

[DennisMillward <dentropy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I recall reading somewhere, think it was a fish carb or gas-cracking 
page about the difference in smell of modern gas and that it lacks the 
richness of old gas (then attributing those differences to the failure 
of said gas-saving technologies).  This did bring up some old olfactory 
memories for me of thinking that gas smelt good in a way that I don't 
anymore.
So what do you think, was gas better, richer, sweeter, more sensual in 
the old days?



> Thomas,
>
> Gasoline is much more volatile than kerosene, so it won't take you 
> more than one oil change to get rid of the gas. At least that is what 
> I think.
>
> You know, that is probably what is wrong with my memory. I used to 
> wash parts in gasoline, wash my hands in gasoline, suck on a syphon 
> hose till my mouth was full of gasoline.  Wonder is that I'm even 
> alive, much less still halfway coherent.
>
> John
> - -- 
> John Hofstetter
> www.goldrush.com/~hofs