And you could buy a Ferrari 250 GTO for $18,000.

^^^ Or a pack of cigs for 25 cents.

I'll take the Ferrari.

I just want someone to check my oil, clean my windshield, and put air in my tires while I sit on my azz during the fill-up....

At 3.18/gal here .... that still ain't gonna happen ;)

As a fifteen year old filling tanks, checking oil, & washing windshields in the fifties, I can say there were some times I enjoyed cleaning windshields for certain ladies.

I think most stations still had a choice between full and self-service when I started driving... but I was cheap and saving pennies.... I've always pumped my own.

I've never purchased gas in NJ tho' :D

I got a vocational teaching job at the local college when I was 25 and did that for 5 years. Plenty of time off for a second job so I worked at the local Amoco pumping gas. We had both self and full service plus a car wash - free with a fill up. I worked every weekend and IIRC some evenings.

Was also a waiter at a local seafood place and convenience store clerk. See some interesting things doing those jobs but also a lot of crazy stuff.....

I remember in the early 60's some stations would give away cheap gifts/trinkets with a fill-up.
The one my father frequented gave away green stamps with gas. My mother always had a book that she was filling with them. When she had a few books, she turned them in for kitchen items.

A couple years ago, I got yelled at for starting to pump my own gas in Long Island, NY. I had no idea of their law.

I vividly remember pulling my 1960 VW bug into Sarge's Service Station just outside of Maxwell AFB. Lots of the military families filled up there.

I could pull in, and they came out, had to lift the hood to fill it up, they washed the windshield, checked the tire pressure, walked to the rear and checked the oil. The asked about my family by name, gave me a bunch of green stamps that I gave to my mom. On occasion they had a glass tumbler that had a theme and all matched if I kept returning.

And in the end the first time I had to pay THREE whole dollars to fill up I was outraged. Not 3 bucks a gallon, 3 bucks for a full tank and over 300 miles of driving.

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We needed to fill up before a trip with $39.22 gallons did a photo mission and filled up with 47.12 gallons. That will make your credit card smoke. ;)

Just now the news said the national gas average is $3.76 for reg.
We are at $3.80...so I guess no complaints here.

(except for those Indians that only pay $3.19) :D

When I see what folks in CA and other places are still paying....

My next fill-up should be free :D

I just payed $4.799 for diesel , regular unleaded was $3.039 this was at Ingles grocery store .

Exxon gave away a little tiger tail you could hang out of the gas fill door.

The president of Sohio (oil & gas) Production Company down in Houston parked his car in his spot in the parking garage right next to the employee entrance. Someone put an Exxon tiger tail in his gas tank filler.

And here we go.... :mad:


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That was good, Vin, thanks.

The US is supposedly down to a 25 day supply of diesel . I may have to park Kong for a while .

$5.49 here...87 0ctane gasahol. local Chevron station, Cindy's Camry.

Now up to 5.739 for diesel.

The term is hoosiers.:D