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My father was telling me about the gorgeous smell of. Castrol R , he visited a friend with a BSA GOLDSTAR which had Castrol R in .

I was asking a elderly friend about it who said its. Hard to get hold of but rather than use it as engine oil you can put a bit in with your petrol to get the said smell ? Anyone heard of this and know where to get it from.

Reds

Castrol still make it and it is part of the Castrol Classic Oil collection if nowhere else. A dollop of castor oil from the chemist has the same effect and I used to add it to the lawn mower but it became a pig to start.

Make sure it is DE-GUMMED castor oil which is available at all hobby shops. It is used for model car and plane 2-stroke engines. Half a teaspoonful in the tank will give off the smell you like. Other castor oils(Castrol R, I think still does) will gum up the rings(see Frank`s post) and be very difficult to remove.

Castrol R is very good at plugging up oil ways if left in the engine for a long period of time without the engine being used.

It wouldn't have any bearing on the origin of the companies name would it? Only if you remove the first 'r' and the'l' from Castrol R, you get 'Castor'.

No, I got it!!!



Castrol

Cast r o l

Castor oil

YAY! Help from that Mastermind game from the 70's, and that stupid tv quiz game that goes buzz,buzz, bleep, bleep, buzz, bleep when you get some of the letters correct.

Article about Castrol R:-

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archi ... /castrol-r

The origins of the name are on the Castrol company website, who'd have thought it?

REgards, Mark

I wasn't intelligent enough to think if it.

Another trade name I love is Britvic (British Vitamin C)