Your First Automobile (Page 7): I remember gas wars when it got to.12 cents and everyone would fill up 55 gal drums by siphoning gas out of the car and go refill car and repeat lol...

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

saw1 wrote:

Started drivin in '67 and gas in Texas was somewhere around .18 cents a gal. Even in '71 it was still in the 20s
One time in Lubbock these 2 gas stations across the street from one another got in a gas war and the price went down .5 cents a gal.

I remember gas wars when it got to.12 cents and everyone would fill up 55 gal drums by siphoning gas out of the car and go refill car and repeat lol

Jeremy Loc: America

I remember being with my dad in 76 or so and seeing diesel for 24cents. I remember Cigarettes being 95 cents in 87. It’s cool to of quit most the bad habits but gas is going to be around awhile.

Thanks for all the replies I really love hearing the cat stories and I hope it was fun fir all of you to remember them too.

Jeremy Loc: America

CamT wrote:

I remember gas wars when it got to.12 cents and everyone would fill up 55 gal drums by siphoning gas out of the car and go refill car and repeat lol

Doesn’t it seem silly a gas war made it go DOWN? Trying to get business but it either shows the stations were ripping everyone off all along or somehow they got discounts for selling more. I remember one of the gas wars when I was young in early or mid 1970’s

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

Jeremy wrote:

Doesn’t it seem silly a gas war made it go DOWN? Trying to get business but it either shows the stations were ripping everyone off all along or somehow they got discounts for selling more. I remember one of the gas wars when I was young in early or mid 1970’s

I remember gas lines in the 70's, we could only buy gas on even or odd days based on your licsense plates

Bob Browning Loc: Cascade, Wisconsin

My first car was a 57 chevy 2door hardtop. 6 cyl 3 speed burned 2 quarts of oil to every 3 gallons of gas. Looked like I was fogging mosquitos. Wish I had it now.

Jeremy Loc: America

CamT wrote:

I remember gas lines in the 70's, we could only buy gas on even or odd days based on your licsense plates

I remember that part too. Seems like a good time to have a license plate collection. 🤪 It was about rationing at that point wasn’t it? I was too young to remember the whole story as Paul Harvey would say.

Video Bob Loc: Norfolk, Va

In 1948 I bought a 1936 ford 3 window from my neighbor for $120.00. Took on a xtra paper route & paid him $5.00 a week until I got it paid for. Always wanted a "Hot Rod" so with help from some "gear head" friends spent 2 years building it into what at that time was probably the fastest & most illegal car on the road in south central Pa. With no inspection sticker & driving with a learner's permit we would wait until midnite to take the "Black Widow" out & would race anybody/anything that pulled up behind or alongside us, including the Police. Was the only one in York & Adam's county in the 51 & 52 that had a standing account with the city where I made weekly payments on the tickets I got. On the last citation I received in 1953, don't know if it was a set up or a stroke of luck on their part. After a nite of the usual ing & hell raising, we headed across town towards home. Eroute 2 black & whites (51 Fords) pulled in behind us from side roads. Still high on the nites activities & knowing we could & had out run them numerous times in the past we floored it & lost them in the dark. When we got to our escape route 8 - 10 miles down the road we found it blocked by two Pa State Police cars. After tearing up my temporary drivers permit & spending "boo coo" time writing my ticket car

Jeremy Loc: America

Video Bob wrote:

In 1948 I bought a 1936 ford 3 window from my neig... (show quote)

Back when speeding tickets never became a worse crime when you keep doing it Time after time.

You think any of those days or nights taught you anything about how to talk or act in future? Maybe how NOT to talk?

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

Jeremy wrote:

I remember that part too. Seems like a good time to have a license plate collection. 🤪 It was about rationing at that point wasn’t it? I was too young to remember the whole story as Paul Harvey would say.

Just a few months after gas was plentiful, it was just one of their ploys to get the prices up like now, I saw gas go up .15 cents at a station in a couple of hours

Jeremy Loc: America

CamT wrote:

Just a few months after gas was plentiful, it was just one of their ploys to get the prices up like now, I saw gas go up .15 cents at a station in a couple of hours

Gotcha. Seems more what they would want than lowering it in a war. I guess the tactics of war could always change or the main reason could.

I usually went with dad to town more for the ice cream cone he promised at Thrifty Drug Store. Those were the good ol days too. Really good ice cream and not expensive.

Ice cream was good when it’s usually 100+ during daylight hours there.

Justoldjim Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.

Bob Browning wrote:

My first car was a 57 chevy 2door hardtop. 6 cyl 3 speed burned 2 quarts of oil to every 3 gallons of gas. Looked like I was fogging mosquitos. Wish I had it now.

yep fill it with oil and check the gas

Justoldjim Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.

I had a hopped up 1942 ford coupe that could pass anything on the road except a gas station

Video Bob Loc: Norfolk, Va

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Accidently hit the send before I finished my letter.

Took me a year to make my car legal to where it could be tagged & registered in the state of Pa. after which I joined the Army & never returned to the Keystone State until the late 90's.
Had it not been for a dear departed Aunt & my stint in the U. S. Army (who introduced me to the real world) I probably wouldn't have made it to be 86 years old. Thanks to the Good Lord & them for steering me in the rite direction many years ago I was able to excel on building , racing & showing classic cars for the last 60 + years

Jeremy Loc: America

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Ugly fish Loc: W Penn

padrebino wrote:

UF, happy to see another Triumph enthusiast.

Bought a new TR 6 first year they were introduced in 1969.
Pictured is my 1976 TR6 that I purchased in 2005. (1976 was last year they were made)

Has an inline 2.5L (2500 cc) 6 cylinder engine.
Also has a rare Surrey top, a Monza 4 pipe exhaust and 5 speed overdrive.

Fun car to drive. Don't take it out as often as I used to but certainly gets attention when I do. Will probably sell in the next year or........

When you get to the point of selling it I would be interested!