While researching one of my cars that raced at the Wine Country Classic in May of 1999 at the then Sears Point (now called Infineon) Raceway I came across this photo taken at the pumps at the track during that race weekend .... I have seen this sign 1000 times . When I see this photo I wonder if the photographer was taking it because he felt prices were high... or to show the contrast between race fuel and super unleaded... either way it's almost painful to look at .... what is the price you first remember paying at the pumps... I think it was around 60 cents a gallon for me in 1978 or 79

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/ChevyThunder/wcc99-5-19.jpg

gas was 40 cents a gallon in 73.
cigs were 45 cents pack.

Was in the $.20's for a number of years. I was 16 in 1968 and remember $.28 & $.29 for regular. "Super" was a few cents more.

I remember it being .67 same year as my car when I was 16. Musta been '76 or so. Was hopin we would bust under $4 for premium. But looks like our dollar may be done with its advances for awhile.

Did you go to Monterey Mr Tibbs? Saw some of your posts that you have been a travelin..

A yellow Porsche (#93) made quite a mess of itself on the wall Friday nite.

Was shocking to see that at the Historics...

Was in the $.20's for a number of years. I was 16 in 1968 and remember $.28 & $.29 for regular. "Super" was a few cents more.


Yep..remember that too! .28 cents for a gallon or a pack of butts. You got 3 gallons for a buck and could get a cheezeburger with the change at McDonalds. Man...times were great back then ! Oh wait...I was getting about $1.15 per hour :(


Kev

25 cents/gallon back about '63 or so!

Luckies were a quarter a pack and you could buy a 6-pack of GOOD beer for about $1.25 and cheap beer for 89 cents!

Tires lasted less than 20,000 miles! And plugs, points and condenser every 10,000 miles and my '57 and a bit later '55 Chevys air breathers had a pint of 10 wt oil in them!

pdq67

I mowed lawns in the summer when I was a kid and remember paying 33¢ a gallon. Mowed your lawn for 3 bucks.

Paid 42¢ a pack for camels at Jim's IGA.


Before we moved to OKC we lived in Westminster CA and I remember Mom giving Ken Mick a world of grief when he went up on gas a stinking penny. I seem to remember 19 cent gas when they had "GAS WARS". Nowadays a gas war has a whole different meaning.

In SoCal we attended parochial School, when we moved to OKC we all wanted to try Public School and Mom and Dad let us. I discovered I was the only one that knew how to plan ahead. I bought Bub's Daddy Bubble Gum for a nickel a stick at the 7/11 each AM and sold it for a quarter a stick during breaks at school. Then I started buying it by the case and selling it for a quarter for a half stick. Then I got busted:D. Nowadays I bet they wish bubble gum was all they had to bust kids for:sad:.

I was pumping gas at age 14 in 1964 for summers and weekends, we had gas wars back then... sold gas for .16 a gallon one Saturday. Cars were lined up all day long, never got a lunch break.. then on Monday back to .25 cents :D oh to have that again.

I pumped gas during the gas "shortage" of the 70's. I can't remember the price but we had no limit. The begining of the month we raised the price by.05 until about 2 weeks from the end then dropped it back by .05. We had to sell our "quota" or else we didn't get as many gallons the next month. We always had lines in the street and always ran out of gas on the last day of the month. During all that I think I still got my employee discount, a nickel off a gallon. Now if just had a nickel for everytime I heard "when cigarettes go to a dollar a pack" or "if gas gets to ___ a gallon"

Jeff

I
Did you go to Monterey Mr Tibbs? Saw some of your posts that you have been a travelin..

A yellow Porsche (#93) made quite a mess of itself on the wall Friday nite.

Was shocking to see that at the Historics...

If you look in my profile you will see a restored 69Z.. in this picture you see the restored chassis of that car and in the background you see my Van Nuys Z and the number 93 that got wrecked on Friday at Monterey....

I went to Tonga for the coronation of the new King and then hit New Zealand and Australia . So I got back in the USA a few days before so skipped the event this year

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/ChevyThunder/Daytona%20Yellow%20%20X77D80/xa.jpg

Was in the $.20's for a number of years. I was 16 in 1968 and remember $.28 & $.29 for regular. "Super" was a few cents more.

We seem to be the same age, which would put us "younger" than that "old fart" Click.....:D
Yeah, 19-25 cents for many years. I bought a spankin new Honda 350 Scrambler in 68 and it had a 3 1/2 gallon gas tank. I couldn't squeeze a whole dollar in it no matter how hard I tried...:noway: