As a young lad i spent many a day at mallory park etc with my Dad in the 70's watching racing and i miss the smell of castrol R!
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I think I still have small amount in a can from the 1970s...... Trouble is with the stuff, as great as the smell was, the original was no good for use in two stroke engines (didn't mix well) plus it would go all gummy and once left to harden it was a s*d to get off..... ....and a lot of people that fancied 'smelling of racing' used to put a few capfuls in their petrol tanks thinking it would have the same affect as Red-Ex, soon found out it didn't......as many float bowls would testify. AL
I get a small bottle of castor oil from the chemists. A couple of tea spoon of it down the exhaust pipe on my pre-65 trials bike and a bit wiped around the hot bits on the engine and it gives you that "authentic R" smell. Sheer decadence on a hot sunny day .
Some of my mates even bought bottles of Mazola Corn Oil (cooking oil) and put some in their petrol but their bikes just smelled like fish and chip vans.
Best of all were the racing Morgan trikes on methanol. The waft of unburnt meths mixed with Castrol R. Intoxicating!
I went to the festival of 1000 bikes at Mallory in July and that smell brought back memories! You should make sure you go next year.
Ahh, Monday night at the speedway track, proper fish and chips as well out of the newspaper - sod progress
Getting the car MOT'd today and the owner is an old racer - still has most of his old race bikes, but at front of shop today was his 1969 Bridgstone 350 stroker - part stripped, awaiting new front discs .... custom frame to get weight distribution to front (inbuilt fuel tank) telelever forks ...... wonderful piece of kit that'd still scare most of us even today!
Missed it this year mate, But my Dad go's every year and enters his bevel MHR mille on track, you may have seen it ?
Ah, there's a smell that takes me back. My early years spent "helping" family friends with their Windle outfit at CRMC races.
i was in belfast for the uster GP last weekend with some mates , and the funny thing every time the two strokes went past you could not help but sniff the air and go mmmmmmm it was like a sunday roast , one lad said that if his wife smelt like that he would not be able to control himself when he got home
Brooklands in the 1930s was fashionable among high society people. They say the paddock smelled of Castrol R and expensive women.
