Castor Oil -Olfactory

[webmaster@consultantbob.com]

All this banter about castor oil brought back a lot of very pleasant memories. Way back in my salad days, all of my car buddies and I would pour an ounce of castor oil in the gas tanks of all of our cars (MGs or not) with each fill up so that we could all enjoy the olfactory experience of the cars' exhausts after being passed by one another when travelling in a group. But of course most of the list members have probably done that too.

However, I can't help but wonder how many of you did what a couple of my fraternity brothers and I used to do while "studying" at night which was, to close the windows and door to my room, put a few drops of castor oil on a little electric hot plate which would fill the room with the desired smoke/aroma, and we'd listen to Sounds of Sebring and also the Stanley Sheffield records with volume turned up to 12 (or was it Schoffield? - these damn senior moments are getting to be a nuissance! - or maybe it's a long term effect of the castor oil fumes!).

One of my favorite SS records which I still have was a "sampler" to advertise the LP record series done by them at the Isle of Man motorcycle TTs back in the early 50's. On this one little 7" record are the sounds of the Gilera 4, MV Agustas, Nortons, Triumphs, and one brief sequence of the awesome Guzzi V8, all doing battle downshifting along side each other coming into and accelerating out of the corners. Really wonderful stuff, particularly when enhanced by the castor oil fumes!!

Bob Johnson

'46 TC 1450

[David Lodge]

on 22/4/02 9:20 pm, webmaster@consultantbob.com at webmaster@consultantbob.com wrote: All this banter about castor oil brought back a lot of very pleasant memories. Way back in my salad days, all of my car buddies and I would pour an ounce of castor oil in the gas tanks of all of our cars (MGs or not) with each fill up so that we could all enjoy the olfactory experience of the cars' exhausts after being passed by one another when travelling in a group. But of course most of the list members have probably done that too. However, I can't help but wonder how many of you did what a couple of my fraternity brothers and I used to do while "studying" at night which was, to close the windows and door to my room, put a few drops of castor oil on a little electric hot plate which would fill the room with the desired smoke/aroma, and we'd listen to Sounds of Sebring and also the Stanley Sheffield records with volume turned up to 12 (or was it Schoffield? - these damn senior moments are getting to be a nuissance! - or maybe it's a long term effect of the castor oil fumes!). One of my favorite SS records which I still have was a "sampler" to advertise the LP record series done by them at the Isle of Man motorcycle TTs back in the early 50's. On this one little 7" record are the sounds of the Gilera 4, MV Agustas, Nortons, Triumphs, and one brief sequence of the awesome Guzzi V8, all doing battle downshifting along side each other coming into and accelerating out of the corners. Really wonderful stuff, particularly when enhanced by the castor oil fumes!! Bob Johnson '46 TC 1450 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . 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]