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Old 12-31-2015, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by b-man View Post
Steel tubes would have failed miserably in this application, the use of antifreeze with corrosion inhibitors wasn't common back then.
My favorite part of reading up on 50's era Pontiacs is reading the service manual and it specifically telling you NOT to use salt or alcohol to lower the freezing point of the water\coolant ;-)