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Originally Posted by Harpoon PV2

I am more then old enough to remember Ethyl gas, Tetraethyl. Man did that smell good! Little did we know that at the New Jersey Dupont Deep Water plant, the building where Ethyl was made, had the nick name, The House Of Butterfly's, because the men would try to brush off, and chase imaginary bugs, and sometimes, chase them out second story windows. At least 16 workers went violently insane, and died in strait jackets. Then again, I can remember being in the pits at the inaugural Denver Air Race when the fuel truck for the unlimited racers came out with the 180 octane fuel. There was a warning on each side of the tank simply stating, Fatal If Inhaled!

I grew up on a farm in South Dakota. After a day with grease and dirt up to our elbows and beyond we'd go to the gas tank and wash the grease off with the leaded gas. It evaporated in seconds.