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Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 7:15 am
by LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com
Dear Bill;Thanks-That PA/PB is absolutely a masterpiece and I would love to see the pictures.
The mechanic told me that the owner has him add 2 oz of motorcycle blend castor oil to the gas tank to get that racing aroma. Smells great and reminds me of the same aroma at the Cole Palen Aerodrome in Rheinbeck on the Hudson in New York.
Wasn't Castrol originally "Castor Oil" developed for early aircraft?
Tally Ho! Thom Collins
Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:18 pm
by Crowsail@aol.com
Thom:
Missed seeing you this year at GOF Sebring, Wife just out of the hospital.
Castrol "R", which used to be sold by Castrol, is the vegetable oil used in race cars. I used to use it in my Porsche racing cars just to smell the aroma.
Of course it was used in all aircraft rotary engines during WWI, and in fact Tazio Nuvolari, the famous Italian racing driver (MG's as well as Buggati's, Alfa's, etc.) attributed his premature death, due to breathing so much of the fumes of it.
Pat Crowe TC # 5135
Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:32 pm
by Badger
Badger, who detests mowing the grass, runs Castrol R in his power mower to enhance the olfactory sensibility thereby making the exercise (barely) tolerable. Badger
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Thom:
Missed seeing you this year at GOF Sebring, Wife just out of the hospital.
Castrol "R", which used to be sold by Castrol, is the vegetable oil used in race cars. I used to use it in my Porsche racing cars just to smell the aroma.
Of course it was used in all aircraft rotary engines during WWI, and in fact Tazio Nuvolari, the famous Italian racing driver (MG's as well as Buggati's, Alfa's, etc.) attributed his premature death, due to breathing so much of the fumes of it.
Pat Crowe TC # 5135
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Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:41 pm
by David & Joyce Edgar
>. . . . and in fact Tazio Nuvolari, the famous Italian racing driver
>(MG's as well as Buggati's, Alfa's, etc.) attributed his premature
>death, due to breathing so much of the fumes of it.
Apparently the Castrol oil also gave him the ability to travel into
the future as well. How else could he have attributed (as in past
tense) his death to breathing so much of the fumes?
David Edgar, TC 5108
El Cajon, California
Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:27 pm
by Frank O_ The Mountain
In a message dated 4/22/02 16:45:21 Pacific Daylight Time,
djedgar@pacbell.net writes:
>
And he apparently didn't know that smoking cigarettes would also lead to a
premature death!
Terry
Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:53 pm
by Donald Wilkinson
Yeah, I wondered about that too.......... Pretty neat.
digitaldon
TC 7993
>From: David & Joyce Edgar djedgar@pacbell.net>
>To: T-ABC list mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:44:48 -0700
>
>>. . . . and in fact Tazio Nuvolari, the famous Italian racing driver
>>(MG's as well as Buggati's, Alfa's, etc.) attributed his premature
>>death, due to breathing so much of the fumes of it.
>
>Apparently the Castrol oil also gave him the ability to travel into
>the future as well. How else could he have attributed (as in past
>tense) his death to breathing so much of the fumes?
>
>David Edgar, TC 5108
>El Cajon, California
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Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:46 pm
by David Lodge
Badger, who detests mowing the grass, runs Castrol R in his power mower to
enhance the olfactory sensibility thereby making the exercise (barely)
tolerable.
Badger
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Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil
Thom:
Missed seeing you this year at GOF Sebring, Wife just out of the hospital.
Castrol "R", which used to be sold by Castrol, is the vegetable oil used in
race cars. I used to use it in my Porsche racing cars just to smell the
aroma.
Of course it was used in all aircraft rotary engines during WWI, and in fact
Tazio Nuvolari, the famous Italian racing driver (MG's as well as Buggati's,
Alfa's, etc.) attributed his premature death, due to breathing so much of
the fumes of it.
Pat Crowe TC # 5135
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Mr.Badger, Pat and Bob,
Golden days of yore! The smell of Castrol "R" at Silverstone in the early
sixties when weekend club racers would thrash their MGs, Minis and Loti
around and then drive them home! That was when it had barely recovered from
being a wartime airfield complete with Control Tower and a grandstand built
of tubular scaffolding! Long before it became an up-market gin-palace.
David Lodge
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