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OK Johnny, I always see references to paraffin in the various Brit magazines and books I get on old tractors. Am I correct in figuring its what we call kerosene here in the states which is actually pretty close to JP4 since paraffin here is a heavy wax similar to candle wax. The old '2 countries divided by a common language' bit.
As my additional to the story, we used to run what we called drip gas in the older cars when I was in high school. Being in Oklahoma we had a lot of oil field storage tanks. They always had a tap off valve at the top of the tank that you could get a couple of gallons of the lighter fractions from, probably about 40 octane at the best. But mix it half and half, retard the timing a bit and it was good to go for cruising. Just don't expect to outrun any of the richies with their big block cars. Luckily we never created a version of Nigerian pipeline fires.
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