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by smokejumper
Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:43 am
Forum: General Fizzy Chat
Topic: Help! Doing my head in!
Replies: 16
Views: 69274

Re: Help! Doing my head in!

I remember the duckhams one was the only type I ever saw.

You can just make out "one shot treats half gallon" which makes sense as we sometimes only bought half a gallon,

used to turn the younger kids up side down and shake them, until the change fell out their pockets and we could go buy petrol ...
by smokejumper
Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:21 pm
Forum: General Fizzy Chat
Topic: Help! Doing my head in!
Replies: 16
Views: 69274

Re: Help! Doing my head in!

I can't remember so well, you might be right.

Only sometimes we could only afford half a gallon and I thought it was one squirt for just the half.
by smokejumper
Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:28 pm
Forum: General Fizzy Chat
Topic: Help! Doing my head in!
Replies: 16
Views: 69274

Re: Help! Doing my head in!

Us sixteen year olds(in 1975) used to use the garage forcourt oil, left by the side of the petrol pumps. You could adjust it for the petrol/oil ratio you wanted in our case 20-1

two squirts per gallon I think, if you could afford a whole gallon ;-) sometimes you forgot to tell the assistant about ...
by smokejumper
Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:08 pm
Forum: General Fizzy Chat
Topic: Mineral or synthetic 2 stroke?...20:1 or weaker?
Replies: 11
Views: 23977

Re: Mineral or synthetic 2 stroke?...20:1 or weaker?

Hey Fizzless,

You may be joking but I used to run my purple fizzy on castrol r40 back in 1975, cost £1 a gallon.

Still love that smell ;-)