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petermeachem



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:30 pm    Post subject: Best smell Reply with quote

I've just taken the petrol tank off. I love the smell of stale petrol. I also like angle grinder metal cutting discs but my top favourite has to be Castrol R, I'd wear it as a fragrance.
What's your favourite car related pong?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too would vote for Castrol R.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
Surely in cars it has to be that fresh leather smell which is missing from so many newere models.
Castrol R at race etc meetings.

Away from cars, that evocative smell of coal fired steam, preferably from Welsh Steam Coal though I believe that is hard to find now.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

castrol r does it for me too, thats why the lawnmower has some added..lovely
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petermeachem



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a good idea, certainly encourage me to cut the grass. Or start the engine at least.
When I was a lad I had a scooter (BSA Sunbeam, weird thing) and we used to put, I think, some benzene in with the petrol.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Penman wrote:


Away from cars, that evocative smell of coal fired steam, preferably from Welsh Steam Coal though I believe that is hard to find now.


I agree .

A few months ago I followed a steam lorry on the A470 heading North towards Llandudno and the aroma took me back to the time when railway steam locomotives were still in use although their numbers were dwindling rapidly by then.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of the above - and the smell of a rich mixture on a frosty morning!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's an old feller (probably not much more than me!) who rides a Suzuki stepthru, slowly, whilst smoking his pipe. The smell of two stroke and cherry tobacco on a frosty morning always takes me back to childhood. Also cut grass and mower exhaust fumes.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the mix of leather,wood and old polish smell that wafts out of an old quality car when you open the door.
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JC T ONE



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Penman wrote:

Hi
Surely in cars it has to be that fresh leather smell which is missing from so many newere models.



baconsdozen wrote:


I love the mix of leather,wood and old polish smell that wafts out of an old quality car when you open the door.



I agree, everytime I open the door to my car,
the smell sends me back i time, to my Grandparents huge Austin Princess, and my Grandfathers Wolseley.

Many people said I should get new leather made, when I restored her.
It is/was apparently cheap in Poland, but I didnt want any cheap Polish leather in my British áutomobile.

I saw a few Coachbuild cars, when I visited Beaulieu in June.
Most of them had a new leather interior, and they had NO smell what so ever Sad
old Connolly leather has a special smell new leather just cant dublicate.




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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

baconsdozen wrote:
I love the mix of leather,wood and old polish smell that wafts out of an old quality car when you open the door.
this also for me i can remember the Vauxhall VX 4/90 of about 1964 having that smell,but i also remember the pipe tobacco, condor, which along with old grease and oil remind's me of being with my poor old dad when he worked at the war-ag at Writtle in 1947, but for me now it's T.V.O.from an old tractor and fresh hay in a barn.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leather for me too! When you open the door of a closed car in the hot weather and breath that first lungful of leather aroma- Fabulous!

I also love the smell of rain on a hot, dry bitumen roadway.

Keith
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nancy Griffith has a beautiful song in which she refers to the smell of a Woolworths store.

Link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ

(Straying just a little off-topic!)
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

with some of the others..the old-car smell,and Castrol R.i used to put a drop in the petrol tank of my BSA A10..all my mates used to love following me!also miss the smell of the Gardner 180 diesel engine in my first 'proper' lorry..my modern Daf is smell-less Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There used to be a "scrap yard" smell ......in the days when vehicles were scrapped rather than recycled !

I used to like it Smile

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