How much did gas cost when you began driving?

[JBA]

Originally posted by Nwbie
Remembering 18 cents a gallon im my 1966 Dodge Dart
with the slant 6( 1973 ish), in a time when you could open the hood and actually see the ground if you looked down lol

NwBie

Gas was .75ish in the early 80's when I got behind the wheel,

we had a dart in the 70's as well. My brothers drove it I was a bit to young, but that car would not die. well over 100K and it went to florida and lasted there for few more years in the 80's.
my buddies car in NH rust out and droped onto its chasy but the engine still strated, You couldn't kill that engine if you wanted to.

I have always said that the slant 6 weould survive a nuclear war.

[rpm]

My best friend had a 67 Valiant with the slant 6. The car was indestructable.

[1K0N]

Originally posted by rpm
My best friend had a 67 Valiant with the slant 6. The car was indestructable.

That is an understatement...

[AKIron]

Gas doubled in price almost overnight in '73 with the OPEC embargo. Remember well the horror of paying over 50¢ a gallon and naively thinking that surely it won't last.


Just checked, we are coming up on the anniversary of that embargo, it began October 17, 1973.

[MrBill]

I can remember 12.9 during some of the gas wars in the late 50's early 60's ... and you got a free tumbler/plate and double trading stamps.
Then again I remember my first ever paycheck for a 40 hour week $37.85 take home!

[pugg666]

about .50 to .60 cents a litre when I started driving in 96, so about 2-2.40$ a gallon Canuck bucks.
was 91.4 a litre when I filled up on Friday (about 3.70$ a gallon)

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by AKIron
Gas doubled in price almost overnight in '73 with the OPEC embargo. Remember well the horror of paying over 50¢ a gallon and naively thinking that surely it won't last.


Just checked, we are coming up on the anniversary of that embargo, it began October 17, 1973.

What cost $.50 in 1973 would cost $2.10 in 2003.

[Torque]

Originally posted by pugg666
about .50 to .60 cents a litre when I started driving in 96, so about 2-2.40$ a gallon Canuck bucks.
was 91.4 a litre when I filled up on Friday (about 3.70$ a gallon)

Gas is always 10-15 cents more expensive in Quebec, that combined with no right turns on a red light is a cash grab by the province.

I remember a gas wars in the early ninties in the States filled up a 3/4 ton van in Vermont for $7.

When i first started to drive i think it was a round 30-40 cents/litre.

Being metric it's easy for the gas companies to gouge, could you imagine if we were still imperial. They'd never get away with a 30 cent hikes per gallon over a one day period.

[Krusher]

Originally posted by JBA
Gas was .75ish in the early 80's when I got behind the wheel,

we had a dart in the 70's as well. My brothers drove it I was a bit to young, but that car would not die. well over 100K and it went to florida and lasted there for few more years in the 80's.
my buddies car in NH rust out and droped onto its chasy but the engine still strated, You couldn't kill that engine if you wanted to.

I have always said that the slant 6 weould survive a nuclear war.

I had a 67 dart and ran it out of water and oil.  It seized up and I drifted to the side of the road, let it cool down added water and oil and left

I paid $150 bucks for that car and drove the heck out of it !