The good old days!
 

Don't cry people!

-S

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That much, huh? I complained when it got that high.

I remember by Dad telling me that his co-workers used to give him crap because he paid $0.26 a gallon for Arco white gas. They were astonished that he would ever pay that much for gas.

Some of these are good too:

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My FIRST car, paid 32 cents a gallon in 1972. Miss those days. Went ballastic went it shot up to 39 cents a gallon that year. Them days are LONG GONE!

I remeber when I thought 70 cents a liter was paying to much here in Australia. It cost me over $100 to fill my petrol tank the other day. I can just dream of when petrol cost 30 cents a liter!

Yeah but lets not forget what we were making back in those days.

I dont even remember prices like that.

wait i wasnt even born !

Cheap fuel for me was 79.9p per litre (about $1.40c to you guys)

Actually, I can remember paying in the $0.40-$0.50/gal price range in Aransas Pass, TX as recently as 1998.

Too bad there aren't many old mechanical gas pumps out there...:shifty:
It can't even pass the $3.99 mark!
Old Mechanical Pumps are cool!:rock:

It's a darn conspiracy I tells 'ya!:nope:

Those days are long gone people time to knuckle down to hard cold facts.

You better take another look! That pump can't pass 99.9 cents!

dammitt!!!!:damn: :damn: I think I a was born to late.:nope:

One would think so but your rate of pay at the time this was taken would even make the .32 cents seem very expensive.

:hmm: yes you're right
:hmm: maybe I was born to soon or maybe not

When I got my first car [early 1970's - 1971] There was this gas station chain called Sinclair.

Anyone remember that? Their logo was that Green Dinosaur. Any takers?

Then there was this gas chain that had commercials advertising of putting a "tigger in your tank". Was that Texaco?

We still have Sinclair stations all over Utah. I guess that's part of being way behind the times.:rotfl:

"Put A Tiger In Your Tank" was the ad slogan from ESSO. It played a funny part in the old movie Pretty Maids All In a Row, starring Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Telly Savalas, Roddy Mcdowell and James Doohan.
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I remember the Sinclair stations :)

When I was a wee lad I remember seeing a Signal Gas station.

Put a tiger in your tank was the advertisement for ESSO gas (now Exxon/Mobile)

Sheesh, I remember operating these things, too (my dad used to work at a Mobil bulk plant but had two of these types of pumps there). 32¢ / gallon. Hopefully it won't make it to $5 / gallon this month.

Sinclair was pretty big in my home state of Wisconsin back when I was a kid.

Esso was the "tiger in your tank" people, and later Exxon. In fact, now that Exxon and Mobil have merged, the gas card for them still has the tiger on it.

BTW, billions of years ago, when my dad was still working for Mobil, and before mergers took place, there was a joke going around with Mobil employees about their next logo being a Turkey.

"Put a turkey in your tank - he'll gobble up the miles!"