A few more oldies...
Fredrick
Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area
sourdough58 wrote:
I sold a fastback same color for $500 I dont remember the yr was in great shape 6ix cyl and ran but the engine was a bit noisy. it sat out in the yard for several mos before it sold, also I had a "64" chevy Impaler SS, 2 door baby-blue with a white top. Black leather bucket seats in front and semi-bucket seats in back, 396 4 barrel and 4 on the floor. I had a bunch of really nice cars and trucks. When I started driving gas was .31 cents per gal. Why-o-why Did I sell everything???? excuse me I need to get a tissue. Thank you for the post.
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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.
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.
Vienna74
Loc: Bountiful, Utah now Panama
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.
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
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.
I hate that kind of price gouging!
I can relate to all of them.
jack
At 76 years of age; I remember it all.
Sendai5355
Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas
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.
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.
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I remember these well...do you?
Shoot! Back in the day, my carseat was a bananna box!
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