Right Mix for coolant

Posted by Craig the Clipper Man On 2014/10/14 12:31:40

I have a '55 Clipper with a 352 cid V-8 and I want to flush the cooling system and add new coolant. This would be the first time I have done this, so my question is:

Do I go with straight anti-freeze or a half-and-half combination of anti-freeze and water (distilled, as I have heard)?

Or is there another option of which I am unaware?

My temperature gauge (if you can call it that) rarely gets much over the C[old], so I can't say that I entirely trust it. Most of the older cars that I have owned tended to have the needle in the center of the gauge, hopefully not going much further toward hot.

As I need to take care of this matter fairly quickly, I would greatly appreciate your valuable input. Thanks all.