TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    TW> Very Interesting article.   
    TW> For many years I drove junk oil burners and never changed the oil   
    TW> because I regualrly had to add a Quart, I did do the filter though.   
      
   Around 1960, I drove a 51 Ford 60 miles per day that would get 15 miles   
   for every 4 quarts of oil. I bought cleaned used bulk oil for that car at   
   less than 10 cents per quart, by the case. It didn't have nor did it need   
   an oil filter. The engine in that old Ford had a breather for oil pan   
   blowby fumes to exit the engine, and they did in a cloud of smoke that   
   earned that car the nickname of 'Mosquito Sprayer'...as the cloud of smoke   
   existed the engine bay through the seams between the fenders and hood.   
      
   I would have scrapped this car, but it was a Victoria, the first tudor   
   hardtop made by Ford and it looked a whole lot better than it ran. I   
   eventually swapped in a different engine and the smoke problem was a thing   
   of the past. Eventually, my girlfriend and I eloped in that car and it   
   served us well for a few more years while we grew a family.   
      
    TW> When I could afford a good car with conventional Oil I changed at the   
    TW> 7500 interval. I somewhat recently moved to using Penzoil Full   
    TW> Synthetic and have bumped the change interval up to 10,000   
      
   I started using Penzoil synthetic a couple of decades ago, but switched to   
   Mobile One around 15 years ago. When I bought the Z28 in 2001, it already   
   had Mobile One in the engine, a factory synthetic in the 6spd trans and   
   the posi rear end.   
      
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