Did they have to track down leaded gas? Did they just use unleaded? Did they suffer engine knock?
I had a 1967 mustang while this was going on in the 1980s. For awhile there was one station selling the leaded gas, then you just took your chances, use the unleaded and maybe an additive if the engine knocked, mine didn’t.
In about 1980 they stopped selling it at the last local station and my dad and someone did something to the van to make it run on unleaded. It lasted 10 more years.
My first car was almost a completely trashed 1970 Buick Skylark, this was in 2002.
It ran on leaded gasoline, so the plan was that id need to fill the unleaded gas into a gas-can, then mix in the lead additive, shake, and then fill its gas tank.
Ended up getting an 89 Caddy Deville that the seller was asking half as much for.
Is that the instructions for adding lead? You can’t dump it in first and then the flow from filling up the tank be enough to mix it? Or put it in halfway?
Idk dude.
I had a leaded gas goped whose motor was from a weed Wacker.
My step-dad brought home the gas can of unleaded, then I squirted some of the lead additive in the can, and I’d kinda swish the can around before refueling the goped.
Worked for the 2 months before the goped was stolen.
Didn’t end up buying the skylark, so never had my dinosaur juice leadifying skills refined.
From 97-2000 I drove a ‘77 GMC truck that was designed for leaded gas which was not available any more. I just used unleaded. No additives or anything. Maybe the fact it was a V8 meant it could stand being a little out of tune, but I never saw any adverse affects.
It was phased out over time with both types being sold as all new cars used unleaded only. Eventually the old cars that used leaded gas aged out and were replaced with new cars.
