Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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92-94 depending where you got it.
I think Sunoco might have even been higher. Not sure.
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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working at gas station in 1971... 102 octane for 29.9
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
[Re: ragtop]
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Here, premium was 100 octane and regular was 90. There was no mid grade. That was at every station in the area. Everybody's premium had 100 octane. Gas wars were not unusual and many times I got premium for 25.9 cents a gallon.
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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I recall the same Lew. I think that the octane was rated using the Research method only verses RM2 as today
I don't know the method but do know it's not the same
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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Remember how it SMELLED different? I mean as a kid in the 60's I remember smelling the WONDERFUL aroma even as you pulled up to the pumps. It was heady, clean. Smelled like it would Taste good. Nothing like today. Anyone else remember that or am I just in my own little world?
Ha Ha....sounds like you DID taste it!! A little after hours siphoning maybe???
But you are right in that it did have a distinct smell to it.
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Re: What was the Octane # for Premium in 1970?
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Remember how it SMELLED different? I mean as a kid in the 60's I remember smelling the WONDERFUL aroma even as you pulled up to the pumps. It was heady, clean. Smelled like it would Taste good. Nothing like today. Anyone else remember that or am I just in my own little world?
Ha Ha....sounds like you DID taste it!! A little after hours siphoning maybe???
But you are right in that it did have a distinct smell to it.
More than once. A kid learning the basics of siphoning in the 60-70's was a dose of tetraethyl lead! I am ok really,,,,no last effects......really, no really.
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