When I was a kid we used to buy old crappy cars we'd find sitting in peoples lawns, beside their houses with grass growing up past the windows.. heck, sometimes they'd just give the cars to us.
We'd quite unsafely strap a few chains to 'em and drag 'em home and wrench on them for hours to get them running.. then sell them.. it was fun for a 16 year old kids.. and got us a little extra spending cash.
Anyway.. one of these cars we got for free was a real crap heap.. the local gas station sold this stuff called Turbo Blue.. some crazy high octane fuel.. we put a few gallons of that in the tank for its final drive to the local bone yard.
First mile or so that thing screamed like a raped ape.. then it started clangin' and bangin' and shreikin'... then came the smoke...
Lesson learned: Use the kind of fuel your engine was designed to run!
With that said.. I run regular unleaded gas in everything I own.. from the weedwacker to the daily drivers with no problem.
They don't sell Turbo Blue around here.. so it's not a temptation!
