The ATF/ Moby Dick connection

["M Turner" <tminjesu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I first read your "ATF", I thought you were FBI!!
Vince In Boston

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Benjamin" <dickb@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: IML: The ATF/ Moby Dick connection


> Like most legends, this one is partly true.  Up until the late 50s,
> transmission oil was based on whale blubber (not sperm!).  It was great
> stuff, sort of yellow in color, and it lasts forever.  I still have it in
> one of my Packards - it has perfect characteristics for the designs used
in
> those days for clutches and bands.  Dexron/Mercon is an attempt to
duplicate
> the lubricity, anti-foaming and detergent properties, and it comes pretty
> darn close.   The original AQ-ATF type A was indeed whale oil.   The
> environmental activists caused the demise of that industry - you can't go
> out and harpoon your own whales anymore.
>
> Dick Benjamin
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 2:39 PM
> Subject: IML: The ATF/ Moby Dick connection
>
>
> > I was talking to somebody and they told me that automatic transmission
> fluid used to be made out of whale sperm.
> >
> > No, no joke.  I thought he was kidding, but . . . is this true?
Anybody?
> >
> > Mark M
> >
> >
> >