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NYC
Gas, 9.5 cents (plus 4 cents tax), ca. 1930.
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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I got my license in 1971. Gas was 23.9 for regular and high test was 27.9.Myfirst car a 1962 Olds super 88 with the hi performance 394 got 11 mile to the gallon ,regardless of how you drove .
My mom had a 1966 Ambassador 990. Paint was a real pretty Cortez Aqua
"I can recall gas being a little under $0.30 per gallon. I'd go to a neighborhood gas station, and get $1.00 worth of gas. They checked the air pressure in all four tires, cleaned the windshield, checked the oil level, as well as the anti-freeze and windshield washer level, all before heading down town with my buds looking for girls."
...Same here!..."fill it up" give 'em a $5 dollar bill and get some change back...😊...but I had a Chevy SS 396, then a GTO w/400...miss my cars more than the people...ahhh, the days of the gas "wars", are gone forever...
In today's $$$, that's $1.58 plus 66 cents tax, making the pump price $2.22 per gallon. That was pretty close to what I was paying last year here in Florida.
The least expensive gas I remember - $19.9 per gal. at the Sinclair station. c.1961
It has been a long time, but I remember buying gas for 25.4 cents a gallon.
The station across the street was charging 25.8.
Brad Steele
used to get it for around 30 cents a gallon when I was a kid for my mini bike and then car.
Had a 55 Chevy with a Corvette engine and three deuces on it in '61. Mess Hall Sgt. let me use meat hook/hoist to install engine in it. Sucked a lot of gas but not a clue how much per gallon. Who cared life was good.--------------------------Ray
1964 Ford Galaxie 500 - 427 with dual Quads ... about 4 mpg ... if you had a light foot ! 😉
Yeah, and he made 10 cents/hr
if you had $3 you were good for Fri nite
3 gals of gas
3 packs of cigs.
and a six pack of PBR
Gas wars in the early 70's I remembers 26 cents a gallon... couple years later I was the one doing the full service at the station and gas was about 48 cents, my 67 mustang could be filled for about 5 bucks and a few bucks more we had a case of Budweiser for the friday night date... funny only making about $2.50 an hour and still had pocket change... Remember then thinking if I could only make it to $10.00 an hour I would be rich...
I worked at a FINA gas station from 1973-78 and gas was about a30 -50 cents a gallon during that time, a bit more if it was full serve.
We had a full serve station with tires, brakes and carb work. I made $4.00 per hour and drove the service truck too.
gas was 19.9 cents when I started driving.
We also used to get "drip" gas for free in the winters. I grew up on the edge of the Texas Oklahoma Panhandle oil field and the liquid gas would condense out of natural gas in the steel pipes laid on the surface and would clog the system so they let dad pump it out every couple of days.
He'd mix it 50/50 with premium and we had good gas for about 10 cents/gallon.
Back when I first started working at the local Sohio station, regular gas was 19.9 a gal. That was in 1964. You could go over to Indiana and the gas was several cents cheaper per gallon, BUT you had to pay the tax on top of the pump price. So it turned out about the same.
Joe
Well apparently I am one tick older than some here, Turned 16 in '62, But grew up on a wheat farm. My Dad farmed with propane tractors. In the 50's he bought "dump rate" propane for $.03-.05 per gallon. Not nearly as exciting as a '64 ford 427.
Used to get about .75 for a prime muskrat pelt and .25 per jackrabbit for the mink farms in the 60's. A regular Jeremiah Johnson. Not too many "griz" in the north Iowa river bottoms though. 😉
Not only the low prices but I also remember telling the full service attendant to fill er up with Ethyl ! 😲 She was a very popular lady back then!
Way back in about 1962-1964......pretty much the end of America's Golden Years......I can(still) recall filling my mo-ped up with 18 cents per gallon gas.......during one of the many "gas wars" of the era.
A VERY much better time...............sigh!!
I remember gas around .68 per gallon when I was a kid...........mid 70's
My first job was pumping gas at a station a couple of blocks from our house, it was .27 a gallon and they also sold kerosene and it was around .17 a gallon.
I was making a whopping $1.00 an hour and I thought I was J.D. Rockefeller. That was high cotton back then.
Same at a Sunoco station.
I got back from a deployment in Diego-Garcia in late 1973.Amaco premium had shot up to the unheard of price of 49 cents a gallon.
Sunoco 260 @ $64.9 in 1977 !