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Old 07-08-08, 09:09 AM   #1
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Don't cry people!

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

It's a darn conspiracy I tells 'ya!
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Old 07-08-08, 09:48 AM   #2
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Those days are long gone people time to knuckle down to hard cold facts.
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Old 07-08-08, 10:08 AM   #3
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Too bad there aren't many old mechanical gas pumps out there...
It can't even pass the $3.99 mark!
Old Mechanical Pumps are cool!

It's a darn conspiracy I tells 'ya!
You better take another look! That pump can't pass 99.9 cents!
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Old 07-08-08, 10:13 AM   #4
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dammitt!!!! I think I a was born to late.
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Old 07-08-08, 10:27 AM   #5
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dammitt!!!! I think I a was born to late.
One would think so but your rate of pay at the time this was taken would even make the .32 cents seem very expensive.
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dammitt!!!! I think I a was born to late.
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
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Old 07-08-08, 05:18 PM   #7
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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?
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Old 07-08-08, 09:59 PM   #8
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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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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?
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)
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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?
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!"
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