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Old 01-13-2018, 11:00 PM   #21
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The sedan on the Left looks it it already "crashed" the party
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Old 01-14-2018, 09:59 AM   #22
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Some of you may not be old enough to remember that alcohol was sold for antifreeze in the "olden dayz".
One of the name brands was Zerone. It was ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol so you couldn't drink it.
It would boil off at around 150F but that usually would work in cold weather.

By the way, it was purple and worked fine as fuel in the race car.
One of the brands sold around here was Pahnol (sp?). Same "alcohol" antifreeze.
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Old 01-14-2018, 01:35 PM   #23
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Yep - Sure do remember purple Zerone!
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