CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

WC>> I always used premium Ameco in the motorcycles and that
WC>> made a very noticable difference. Too spensive these days
WC>> :-( 

CA>> I owned a tweaked Pontiac that had to use either Shell
CA>> premium or Sunoco 260 to avoid puffing black smoke out the
CA>> exhaust. THAT was expensive at 10 mpg! 

RJT> I owned a '67 Catalina one time that was fairly high
RJT> compression -- 10:1 if I remember right. That thing not
RJT> only needed high test but was fussy about which brand you
RJT> put into it, too. The wrong brand and you'd lose power,
RJT> lots of it. 

RJT> OTOH, with the right gas, you had to be *real* careful
RJT> about pressing down on that gas pedal, or it'd just sit
RJT> there spinning the wheels... :-) 

CA> My Pontiac could do over 160mph and I could 'hide' back half of the
CA> car in smoke from the rear wheels if I floored it taking off. :-) 

I never really wanted to find out just how fast that car could go,  but it
went pretty fast when I wanted it to.  Never saw much point in wasting the
tires,  either.  

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