[Tim Hancock]

For years I had used a 300 gallon tank of non ethanol 91 octane for all my yard equipment toys and airplanes. A local fuel distributor would come out with a truck and fill it on demand. My airplanes had/have autofuel STCs which allow me to run non ethanol car gas vs the very expensive 100LL Avgas. This worked great and I had no fuel related issues with seldom used equipment or toys.... Then suddenly the supplier quit carrying it. A couple years ago another supplier in another town started carrying and I am back in business.

For a few of those years when I was racing a dirt car, I needed a bit higher octane for about an 11:1 V8 race car engine. I ended up going to the local airport every couple of weeks to fill some jugs with 100LL Avgas as I was too cheap to buy the more expensive and higher octane "race gas" at the track (I would mix the 100LL 50/50 with premium pump gas... Race car ran great on it for 4 summers of nearly every Saturday night racing). For those couple years I would siphon out seasonal use equip and toys and re-fill with the Avgas for the down season. Avgas could sit I bet for 10+ years and still work perfectly. It however costs too much to run in all my equipment year round. Luckily I now have the non-ethanol 91 back in my home tank and I don't have issues.