A few more oldies...
Jan 25, 2023 12:07:07 #
sourdough58 wrote:
I sold a fastback same color for $500 I dont remem... (show quote)
When I was stationed in Long Beach in 1966 premium gas was 13 cents a gallon on the base. Outside the base regular gas was 25 cents a gallon.
Out to sea a pack of cigarettes was 11 cents.
Jan 25, 2023 12:15:57 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
I can remember when you used to be able to go into the corner shop with a dollar bill and come out with 6 piece of bubble gum, 2 pretzel sticks, 4 Tootsie Rolls, 1 small bag of potato chips and 3 rolls of sour apple Life Savers and STILL have change of about 60 cents in your pocket.
You can't do that today because they have the damn convex mirrors on each aisle plus all those security cameras everywhere. Ahh the good old days.
You can't do that today because they have the damn convex mirrors on each aisle plus all those security cameras everywhere. Ahh the good old days.
Jan 25, 2023 12:30:55 #
Ahhh, bench seats!
I loved the cars with the gas tank cap behind the license plate. They would fill up and when they started moving gas would leak out behind them.
I also remember feeling outraged that it cost me $5 to fill my 20-gallon tank.
I loved the cars with the gas tank cap behind the license plate. They would fill up and when they started moving gas would leak out behind them.
I also remember feeling outraged that it cost me $5 to fill my 20-gallon tank.
Jan 25, 2023 12:31:20 #
Before I was driving i recall seeing the gas price $0.129 at the local station. Before 1947 but certainly after 1945.
My grandfather’s hardware store had an old pump with a large glass cylinder. A hand pump would fill it with gas to the one gallon mark, then you drained it into your tank. It wasn’t in use then.
My grandfather’s hardware store had an old pump with a large glass cylinder. A hand pump would fill it with gas to the one gallon mark, then you drained it into your tank. It wasn’t in use then.
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I was planning to buy a new 1967 Ford Mustang fastback but my plan was interrupted when I received orders to go to a land far far away.
Jan 25, 2023 18:21:51 #
1967 I traveled to Alaska with my mother and father (he worked on the Alaska Highway during the war). When we crossed the boarder from Canada to Alaska the gas was $1.00 dollar a gallon at a Texaco station. They pumped the gas into a large glass container on top of the pump and then let it drain by gravity into your tank.
Jan 25, 2023 19:46:06 #
hookedupin2005
Loc: Northwestern New Mexico
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I remember these well...do you?
Shoot! Back in the day, my carseat was a bananna box!
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Jan 25, 2023 21:03:45 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
The third one is something you might see 50 years from now except it will be in dollars instead of cents.
In 1966 I drove to Alaska. The highest price I came across for gas was about 68 cents and that was for an Imperial gallon in Canada.
In 1966 I drove to Alaska. The highest price I came across for gas was about 68 cents and that was for an Imperial gallon in Canada.
You never know.
Jan 25, 2023 21:04:17 #
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