Old Gas Station and Cars

[up148]

Had a customer fly in from the UK a few weeks ago and he told us if you drive your car into downtown London, it's an automatic fee equivalent to $25. Also, few people speed in London, as there are timers and cameras on every stop light, so you don't have to be physically caught.........you just get a ticket in the mail. I didn't get a chance to ask how the timers work and how they know one car from another, but he says it works and slows people down. They'd have to give me a season ticket and just stamp it.

BH

[up148]

[quoteThe elevator for people was pegs on a chain. Kinda reminded me of some ski lifts. I moved the transfer table over to my truck, drove it onto the transfer table and let it down. Then I put the transfer table back at the top and rode the pegs back down.][/quote]

That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Inclement weather would be interesting too.

BH

[rex desilets]

As I understand it, AMOCO was always "white gas", which was gasohol. So, no change, when all the sudden gasohol became all the rage.

I thought it was simply unleaded gasoline. Back in the Summer of 1979 we drove across country during the oil embargo and used AMOCO a lot-seemed to be the only readily available source. Ate my engine's valves, it did.

[Tom Dempsey]

It was that too Rex, and you're not the first guy to tell about ate up valves from too much use. I don't know what folks living in the midwest did about it unless they made sure every other stop was at a different brand. That's how I kept my 4V 302 '68 Mustang alive during the mid and late 1980's. One tank of regular and at half a tank start looking for a premium stop.

[rex desilets]

At the time I was purely ignorant about the effects of unleaded gas on engines.
As I recall, now, you could buy lead additive at your local Manny, Moe, and Jack's.

My son and I did the valve job on our car- a 1973 Dodge Sportsman van (large enough for four children, a large German Shepherd, and family camping gear). Getting the heads off and back on after refurbishing was....fun.

[HONDO74]

Lead in the fuel was used to lubricate the valves and the seats. The manufacture went to induction hardened seats, but that did not always work and if you had a valve job done the hardness was gone. If you have a valve job done on the older heads you have hardened seats installed. Today with all the aluminum heads they have hardened seats.

[rogruth]

As I understand it, AMOCO was always "white gas", which was gasohol. So, no change, when all the sudden gasohol became all the rage.

I thought it was simply unleaded gasoline. Back in the Summer of 1979 we drove across country during the oil embargo and used AMOCO a lot-seemed to be the only readily available source. Ate my engine's valves, it did.

My grandparents used Amoco "White Gas" for, ready, cleaning fluid since it didn't have ALL THAT OTHER STUFF IN IT THAT OTHER GAS HAS.
It also cost a penny or two more than other brands. I am writing of the late 1930s and the 1940s.






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[Rufus T. Firefly]

My grandparents used Amoco "White Gas" for, ready, cleaning fluid since it didn't have ALL THAT OTHER STUFF IN IT THAT OTHER GAS HAS.

Like benzene?

[webenda]

My grandparents used Amoco "White Gas" for, ready, cleaning fluid since it didn't have ALL THAT OTHER STUFF IN IT THAT OTHER GAS HAS.

Like benzene?

What is wrong with benzene? While most oil companies were switching to leaded gasolines en masse during the mid-to-late 1920s, American Oil chose to continue marketing its premium-grade "Amoco-Gas" (later Amoco Super-Premium) as a lead-free gasoline by using aromatics (benzene and naphthalene) rather than tetraethyl lead to increase octane levels, decades before the environmental movement of the early 1970s led to more stringent auto-emission controls which ultimately mandated the universal phase out of leaded gasoline. It is the benzene and naphthalene that give gasoline that wonderful aroma that motorheads love.