How much was gas when you started driving?

[widgeon13]

$.25 / gal., would I kill to see that again.

[944Larry]

same here, 25 cents per gallon with full service.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

You lifted the hood and an automatic prop held it open. The attendants didn't have any trouble getting it open, but to close it you had to lift it first to unlock the prop (like a 356). Way too many attendants just leaned on it until the hood bent, .................

And a lot of 356's were messed up as well. Funny, they never seemed to have trouble with the Corvette.

[pa911]

Originally Posted by on2wheels52

I remember the Gulf commercial where the guy with his girl friend pull into the station and ask for 25 cents of Good Gulf. The attendant puts it in and does the windshieldwashingcheckingoiland tiresthing...... The kid tries to get him to stop but he does it all. They dig through their change and come up with another 25 cents to buy.
Jim

YouTube - 1972 Gulf commercial - "The Big Spender"

[Joeaksa]

.18 or .19c a gallon when I was in high school.

Then when I was working overseas in Saudi it was about .10c a gallon but thats not a realistic cost as the govt supports it.

[A930Rocket]

I want to say $.50 a gallon back in 1977.

[fingpilot]

I can remember working a station in college, and there was a BIG deal as the dealer had to buy pumps that were capable of going over a dollar a gallon! The signs out front too!

A dollar a gallon! What was the world coming to!

[pwd72s]

I just paid $4.10...but it was 92 octane NO ALCOHOL premium...

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by stevepaa

about 28 cents when I started driving.
hamburger was 15 cents

Around 80 cents for me, we would pool our money for surf trips, but I remember 15 cent Miligan burgers

[Evans, Marv]

Gas was in the 20 cent range when I was in H.S. and less with the gas wars. I remember putting $1.00 worth of gas in my tank at a time. I started working in a Richfield station at 15 1/2 yrs. old after school & on weekends. It was normal procedure to ask if the customer wanted to fill the tank and then wash the windshield, check water & oil, tire presure, etc even if they didn't want the tank filled. We gave green stamps. Mondays were slow, so the owner started offering double green stamp on Mondays, and it became the busiest day for gas. At that time the premium was 100 or 102 octane, if I remember right. I was advertised to have TCP as an additive. When I asked the owner what TCP was, he replied it was "Tom Cat Pee."

[targa911S]

.19 a gallon for regular.

[carreraken]

$0.30 a gallon, back when my first job paid $1.89 an hour...

[Mike Andrew]

About $.031 for regular & $.34 for premium. When I worked at a Standard station, I used to do the hose stretch when I closed and got a bit of free fuel for the 305 Scrambler.
During my misfit hoodlum days, I siphoned lots of gas and will never forget the taste.

[12own911]

Originally Posted by Targa Me

Hey do any of you guys (or gals) remember getting Blue Chip Stamps with a fill-up?

Yes. My mom got them at gas stations and then bowling. I got my first clock radio with blue chips when I was 14.

[barryr]

When I purchased my 911 in 82 I would roll into the station on fumes, fill up with premium, get a pack of smokes and some change back from $10.00!
Still have the car but my smoking and cheap gas are long gone. (but I am going to Cuba next week so we will see about the smoke)
Barry

[Evans, Marv]

NotaBRG, my first hourly job paid $.90/hr. I'd go back to those rates as long as prices in general matched. For instance the house my parents bought when I was in 8th grade was $19K. Gas prices were down around the .20 to less than .30 for a long time during those days.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

For the guys that would love to see gas at $.25, $.50, anything less than $1, what were you making at the time? Would you like to go back to that as well?

I know when I first started driving I was making $2.25 and hour. I don't want to go back to that...

My 1st started at $3.35 an hour, but it wasn't long before I was making ove $4 a month or so, then bumped again

Barry, hook a brother up when you get back from Cuba...

[sc_rufctr]

About 34 cents per liter. (1983)

[johnco]

"During my misfit hoodlum days, I siphoned lots of gas and will never forget the taste"

yep, it does taste bad.. but not that bad. when you get a mouth full trying to get it going, start to gag and accidently suck in another mouthful...and then gas comes goes up your sinuses and out your nose... you'll know what bad really is. you'll remember it for a few days

[MrNvgtr]

In 1994 when I turned 16, I think I remember it being about 0.92/gal. I remember the shock of paying for my first tank of gas. About $20 - $25 or so.