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

[kgw]

Rick I. wrote:
> 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.
> 
> _______________________________________________

I lived in rural Arizona until about 11-12 years ago, and I think you 
could still see leaded when I left.  You gotta remember, out west, lots 
of cars n trucks last much longer than in other parts of the country!


-- 
Gene

Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois 60123 USA