What's your favourite garage/car smell? Petrol? Swarfega?
Mine is copper grease
Love the smell, reminds me of chocolate or something. Quite tempted to eat it
This has probably been done before but...
What's your favourite garage/car smell? Petrol? Swarfega?
Mine is copper grease Love the smell, reminds me of chocolate or something. Quite tempted to eat it
mmm, petrol, who'd have thought fossils smelled soooo good 
quite like the smell of gearbox oil myself
smell of cutting fluid in the machine shop
I like the musty old car smell when you're inside a car at the scrappers
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Originally posted by UncleFista
I like the musty old car smell when you're inside a car at the scrappers
Not in everyones garage but the smell after running my model aero engines particularly the deisels running on ether/castor oil is nostril heaven for
me
Probably highly carconogenic though 
Castrol R...everytime
I concur, nothing like a ring ting ting 2 stroke pumping out Castrol R fumes, hmmm....
I didn't think there was any one here old enough to remember the smell of Castrol R. In the 60's that smell would lead you to the highly modified engines.
Not a garage smeel but in the forest at a rally the smell of castrol r followed by the freshly dug up pine needle earthy combo.
Swarfega reminds me of that night with rachel stevens... sorry that was a dream.
Castrol R, walking towards the pits at the goodwood revival and smell getting stronger.
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Originally posted by Canada EH!
I didn't think there was any one here old enough to remember the smell of Castrol R. In the 60's that smell would lead you to the highly modified engines.
Mmmmmm Castrol R........heavenly.....
Fozzie
I love the smell of unburnt petrol and oil mist coming out of the engine bay when I'm on a blat..... My wallet wishes I did more MPG but my
nostrils love the smell
I beginning to feel we may need a Castrol R self help group
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Originally posted by onzarob
I beginning to feel we may need a Castrol R self help group
Sorry - mine's 2 stroke after a scooter or 125 goes past.
Pat...
the smell of fuel from flak monkeys car when he pull up to my house.
this sums up what the castrol R smell prints in my mind
http://www.castrolr.co.uk/
Castrol R for me too. VSCC and speedway spring to mind.
On the rare occasions that I cut the grass I put a splash in the fuel, it's the only thing that makes the job tollerable.
Considering the level of fumes (white sprit used in large quantities) emanating from my garage I'd better stay out for now, I'd rather it
didn't smell at all.
[Edited on 6/2/08 by Isaback]
WD40 & Body Filler
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Originally posted by marcyboy
Body Filler
Even my mum thinks it smells great (she wandered in the garage the other week and commented on it )
Definately Castrol R. On a hot summers night this whole area smells of it from the speedway track
Least favourite smell: EP80/90 
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Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Definately Castrol R. On a hot summers night this whole area smells of it from the speedway track
Sticking my nose in a new box of teabags, still one of my favourite smells
ATB
Simon
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Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Definately Castrol R. On a hot summers night this whole area smells of it from the speedway track
Least favourite smell: EP80/90
Castrol R in the lawn mower............thanks for the wonderful suggestion which will improve this years lawn maintenance no end
Mick
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Originally posted by pajsh
Not in everyones garage but the smell after running my model aero engines particularly running on ether/castor oil is nostril heaven for me
Thanks onzarob nice minis. I used to race ministox and we used to drip Castrol R down the carb so they would smell like real racing cars
gotta agree castrol r is a good one along with
copper grease
2 stroke smell
body filler
oh and i love GT85 spray!!!
i have been told i got a strange habit of sniffing things, but it seems im not alone.
rob
Love:
1. Petrol
2. Hot steel (welding/grinding)
3. WD40
Hate:
Gearbox oil
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Originally posted by twybrow
Hate:
Gearbox oil
Thinners, in moderation
During my bodywork phase I practically got addicted to body filler. I also like GT85 and now use it in preference to WD40. And Castrol R of course ...... ahhhhhhh that takes me back to an old Norton I used to own .....
Hard one to say.
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I like the musty old car smell when you're inside a car at the scrappers
The smell of a car in general; (brakes/engine/tyres) after a car's been thrashed on track!
Inside the car at the end of a long forest special stage. Stinking hot brakes and motor together with the smell of what was mud drying on motor / exhaust.
Fave garage smell has to be petrol for me.
Fave workshop smell is burning hair smell
Fave car smell is the passenger seat when i take the wife's best mate home.
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Fave car smell is the passenger seat when i take the wife's best mate home.
Acetone
or Castrol R
Super unleaded
Preferable ESSO
[Edited on 7-2-08 by speedyxjs]
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
smell of cutting fluid in the machine shop
castrol R and new number plates,
What is that ???
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Originally posted by pajsh
Not in everyones garage but the smell after running my model aero engines particularly the deisels running on ether/castor oil is nostril heaven for me
Probably highly carconogenic though
used to run an engine every now and again just for that smell and sound - usually resulting in the tell tale dozen slice marks along the
flicking finger... 1) Machine coolant - Soluble Oil - best when I walk into my school metal workshop at about 7:30am and there's no one around & it's
combined with the fluorescent tube starters clicking and popping.
2) Red semi hardening gasket sealant. Both when fresh from the tube and also when blasting along and you catch a waft from under the bonnet mixed with
hot exhaust and oil vapour out of the catchtank.
Gunk, & most engine de-greasing agents
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Originally posted by carpmart
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Fave car smell is the passenger seat when i take the wife's best mate home.
You bad boy you!
Bacon sandwich and a Tea, when the Mrs has brought it out to me on a cold January day in the garage
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Originally posted by MikeCapon
Inside the car at the end of a long forest special stage. Stinking hot brakes and motor together with the smell of what was mud drying on motor / exhaust.
urate smell is...? strange the computer locked up for a moment there, wonder what happened?
Strangely, the smell I don't like is petrol! Odd dislike for someone who's built a car...
The one I do like is the one you get in old but well-maintained posh cars - P4 Rovers, Mk 2 Jags, etc. A mixture of leather, wood, oil, and so on.
i like petrol vapour smell, i loved the old 4star leaded!! smelled different to the unleaded now. i really do hate diesel! it lingers and plays hell
with my hands, also hate gearoil smell that lasts even longer especially when it get all over your hair and takes weeks for the smell to go!!!
welcome back whippy, enjoy your detention??
Rob
There's a clubman in Adelaide called the Red Knob Special which has an old Corolla motor (3K?) fed by twin 2" SUs through a supercharger.
The protocol calls for running a pre-mix of castor oil in the fuel to lube the blower and water-methanol mix for post supercharger injection to
control detonation. As you might imagine, at full noise it both sounds and smells very, very good A few photos attached.
Dominic
Castrol Ahh...
Burnt Leaded petrol (my town has an annual classic car meet - the air used to be thick with 4-star fumes, but not anymore).
Hot oil/engine/brakes after a fast run.
Swarfega
Hate:
Gearbox oil
Undecided (both love and hate):
Brake fluid.
The smell of trackday hot tyres after you've taken then out of the tyre warmers
Then the smell of a red hot bike thats just been thrashed within an inch of it's life round said track top leave the tyres shredded
(and if you look closly you can see the tyre is actually out of shape due to the excsessive tyre wear
Blimey, someone loves the right handers!