I checked the Castrol web site when I was assembling my engine in the
summer of '98. It was still listed there but I didn't have the guts to
commit to it and I didn't go as far as checking actual availability. I
stuck with tried and true GTX 20-50. My experience with "R" was in the
early seventies when all the Cooper S racers at Westwood in Vancouver used it.
At 01:19 PM 6/14/00 -0000, Charles Christ wrote:
>i wished you could still get castrol r!!!!!! that's what dad ran in his
>racing saabs and street saabs when i was a kid. *sniff**sniff* ahh i can
>still smell it like it was just yesterday..........*sigh*
>
>chuck.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Brackman <begowest@telus.net>
>To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:50 PM
>Subject: Sweet Smells, Castrol R !!!
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>> There is nothing more evocative than the smell of Castrol R, For anyone
>> that hung around race tracks in the 50's and 60's, combine that smell
>> with the sound of racing engines and voila!, Heaven! Peter Egan once
>> wrote in R&T, that he would put a saucepan of Castrol R on the stove
>> during the winter months just to get him through the "off season". Hmmm
>> I wonder if good old AN5L 35140 would like it?
>>
>> David
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