[SEL] RE: Update on the Ruston Hornsby - PB 3 - The head is off...

Rick I. rdi at rochester.rr.com
Tue Jun 21 20:45:36 PDT 2005


Richard Allen writes:

>This may help to give you an idea of the last time the
>engine was run.  Leaded gasoline in the U.S.
>was last used around 1978 or so.

That may(?) have been the original plan, but the EPA backed off in the end,
and let the free market determine when lead in gas went away (lower/no
demand=stop production).  The summer of 1991 was the last time I personally
bought leaded gas for my car here in western NY.

-Rick I.




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