Re: Aviation Types 1935 PA/PB Castor Oil

LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com · Post by **LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 7:15 am

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

Crowsail@aol.com · Post by **Crowsail@aol.com** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:18 pm

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

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:32 pm

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

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] Crowsail@aol.com [b]To:[/b] LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com [b]Cc:[/b] Mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Monday, April 22, 2002 7:17 PM [b]Subject:[/b] 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 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

David & Joyce Edgar · Post by **David & Joyce Edgar** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:41 pm

>. . . . 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

Frank O_ The Mountain · Post by **Frank O_ The Mountain** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:27 pm

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

Donald Wilkinson · Post by **Donald Wilkinson** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:53 pm

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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David Lodge · Post by **David Lodge** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:46 pm

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

----- Original Message ----- From: Crowsail@aol.com To: LuckyFloridaLin@aol.com Cc: Mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:17 PM 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 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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