Unleaded
No, that's not how it works.
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I had a 1968 Dodge car with a 383 engine that needed leaded gas ISTR to help lubricate the pistons? Whatever it was all about. So then in the 70s the grateful government switched everyone to "unleaded" and my car was screwed.
So ISTR there was a bottle of stuff you could buy that you were supposed to add into the gas tank to make up for this no-lead gas.
As to octane numbers, ISTR ( I do a lot of that these days!) it was the famous flyer Charles Linbergh,(sp?) who disgraced himself in the early 40s by being a big fan of the Germans, and who sort of got the news in Dec 1941, and joined up, and then invented ???? 100 octane gasoline for airplanes???? So he sort of redeemed himself sort of.
So ISTR there was a bottle of stuff you could buy that you were supposed to add into the gas tank to make up for this no-lead gas.
As to octane numbers, ISTR ( I do a lot of that these days!) it was the famous flyer Charles Linbergh,(sp?) who disgraced himself in the early 40s by being a big fan of the Germans, and who sort of got the news in Dec 1941, and joined up, and then invented ???? 100 octane gasoline for airplanes???? So he sort of redeemed himself sort of.
