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I don't know how good whale oil transmission fluid actually was btw, I didn't experience the transition.

I remember older people talking about how much better it was. But like most times when people talk about how much better something used to be, I assume it was mostly not as good as they remember it.

But even 70 year old today would have been only 20 years old in 1973 when whale oil was banned, so likely they would have had only very few years of experience if any of using whale oil

The positraction in my 1967 GTO REQUIRED whale oil to the point I was buying 'New Old Stock' in the 90s.