Puff the Magic Dragon

My journey and afternoon did not get any better. By now I was about 3 miles from home and the pinking was getting worse and worse. I had little choise but to drive on. Ok I could have called out the RAC but I was so close to home I decided not to. Yes I did have my phone with me, charged up and turned on (a little information for the guys at work who wonder why I have a mobile as I never have it with me or have it turned on. Actually today was the first time I had seen it for three weeks.) I turned the corner for the last mile of my troubled trip and was greated by a large plume of dark smoke. Oops water seems to have turned to oil. Who said alchemy was dead. The last mile was quite bad with lots of smoke and pinking. It was like a really bad display from a four wheeled red arrows outing. I'm sure the people behind liked it as they dropped back to get a better view. Or was that to stop their cars filling with burnt oil and preventing their screens getting covered. i guess I'll never know.
I got home and parked the car on the drive glad to have actually made it. I lifted the bonnet and a cloud of smoke escaped along with much bubbling and sizzling. In fact the engine got so hot it melted the HT leads.


I had obviously done some damage so I decided to pull the head off and have a look. Just need to decided what to do. Do I buy a gasket set and give the head a quick regrind and skim and get the car back on the road or do I take the time now to invest in the car by carrying out an unleaded conversion. Hum, choices choices.