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Old 06-13-2016, 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by goatman65 View Post
I gotta ask, How did those pumps pump the different octanes? Were there separate tanks of octane booster that mixed in as the gas was pumped? Surely there was not a tank for each octane offered. I remember those pumps but never used one.
As I recall, they had a tank full of the cheap stuff (190-200) and a tank full of the good stuff (260). In between, you got a mix of the two.

My dad worked at Muldoon's Sunoco in Scotrun, PA as a second job around 1981....they had a standalone pump for that still-newfangled "unleaded" stuff. It was only like 85-86 octane!

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