E5/E10:Nothanks!

Dear Classic American,

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply to my letter in last month's issue about why EssoSupreme pumps have an ES sticker on them suggesting they have ethanol in them

(but in fact don't); for now then Essois the way to go. I have air-cooled 1950s/'70s-style motorcycles which cannot have an electric fan attached. However, I already have fitted an electric fan to my 1958 DeSoto as the 20mph speeds where I live (might be other reasons as well?) seem to cause her to overheat.

I noted the letter of complaint about the all-modified and customised edition (June), I too breezed through it rather quickly. At one point early in an article the writer told me if I did not like modified I had better skip the article, so I did. I appreciate that with Covid-19 lockdown in force you had to do something and that was it - it's one of very few to go in the bin, but modified is not my thing mostly.

Cherry Bomb caught my attention however; I read and studied it closely, several times over. It took me back to being a teenager in the Seventies. I was given, by car guys in the flats below ours, their old car mags - Custom Car, Car and Car Conversions etc. In the early-/midSeventies one ran a jacked V8, jag back-axle Ford pop, another a rally-styled Escort, oh and one brought from Canada a new Trans Am. So Cherry Bomb really took me back to a different time and place - thank you for that interesting diversion! Chris Drucker

Staines, Middx

Well, we'll be sticking with Essa Supreme, but we'd be interested in any other ES-free petrols that readers are aware of ... We also think this is Chris's roundabout way of saying that although at first he didn't think he liked all the modified/customised content, in the end he did!