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Originally Posted by GWN7
The car was in his parents garage in a small town a couple hours West from here. The parents both passed within 6 months of each other. He sold the house and possession is today. Moved up from the end of the month. So the car went to a small (2 man operation) restoration shop where it will be first brought back to life (gas drained, all fluids replaced, lubed, ect) and then it will go into the queue of projects being done where it will be restored to new quality.
The owner told me today gas was $0.453 a gallon when his dad brought the car home.  |
That’s about $2.50 in today’s dollars. And it got a lot worse in the late 70s before it got better. At 8 MPG I can just imagine the pain those gas fill ups caused.