As I was staring at my gas guzzler, I suddenly thought back to the good old days of $.93 per gallon. What's the cheapest gas you can remember buying?

To some of you old farts on here, don't get shy.

i cant remember exactly but under a buck for sure - seems like forever ago could you guys even imagine filling up for 20.00? HA

i cant remember exactly but under a buck for sure - seems like forever ago could you guys even imagine filling up for 20.00? HA

And that was a big tank

34 cents. Go here and enter the year (upper right) your first bought gas. (http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/)

I don't remember myself. According to that site the avg price of gas was $1.68 when I began driving at 16. That's scary.

.23 a gallon. On my wages of $1.05 an hour, it took almost a half a day's pay to fill up my '56 Chevy. It would take about $17.00/hr today to be "equal" to that on the SRT8.

Funny question because I asked my grandmother this question a couple of months ago. She told me 12 cents.

I remember 19 cents a gallon for leaded premium during the "gas wars" of the late 60s & 70s.

Gas war late fifties. Burbank CA.

91 cents!....filling up my 98 HP Dodge Colt.

In 1959 when i started drag racing i paid .12 a gal for 100 octain whick back then it was called ethal and the 96 octain was called regular.

gas was .60 cents cigarettes were .55 cents now in md, premium is 3.19 and the smokes are 5.50. im just glad beer hasent gone up so much

As I was staring at my gas guzzler, I suddenly thought back to the good old days of $.93 per gallon. What's the cheapest gas you can remember buying?

To some of you old farts on here, don't get shy.

$.29 for premium (used to call it ethyl) at the 76 station. Used to cost me around $5 to fill up a 69 RoadRunner 440 But, that was a lot of money at the time.

gas was .60 cents cigarettes were .55 cents now in md, premium is 3.19 and the smokes are 5.50. im just glad beer hasent gone up so much


If gas keeps going up...I will keep driving my GCSRT8...if beer goes up, I will have to cut back on my alcohol consumption...okay, maybe not!!!:p

I used to fill my Mustang up and get a pack of Marlboro Lights for under 20 bucks.

Those were the good ole days!!!

(I don't smoke anymore though)

haha, like $2.50

I quit smoking too BAM...about one of the best things I ever did in my life!

In the 60's when gas went from 25 cents to 27 cents, I thought that the world had gone mad.

That was when McDonalds advertised "Forty-five cents for a three course meal." (Hamburger, fries, and a shake; each 15 cents.)

$1.46 in 2001.

.59 cents when I worked pumping gas and washing windshields. About 75 cents once I got my license in 1975.

Also I can remember both gas shortages.
1973 I was pumping gas. But not yet driving so it wasn't too much hassle for me.

1979 was a different story. I remember it was like 6 months or more of odd/even gas rationing. We all had our front plates under the front seat and so we could swap them between us whenever we needed to get on line for gas. I also worked at the airport during that winter. Our boss would sell us 100 octane LL, Cessna fuel, for our cars. I had a '66 Lincoln and that 462 never ran soooo good. I can also remember sitting on the side of the LIE looking for a gas truck to follow to its delivery point so we could get some gas.

Rob

.59 cents when I worked pumping gas and washing windshields. About 75 cents once I got my license in 1975.

Also I can remember both gas shortages.
1973 I was pumping gas. But not yet driving so it wasn't too much hassle for me.

1979 was a different story. I remember it was like 6 months or more of odd/even gas rationing. We all had our front plates under the front seat and so we could swap them between us whenever we needed to get on line for gas. I also worked at the airport during that winter. Our boss would sell us 100 octane LL, Cessna fuel, for our cars. I had a '66 Lincoln and that 462 never ran soooo good. I can also remember sitting on the side of the LIE looking for a gas truck to follow to its delivery point so we could get some gas.

Rob

Sounds like Mad Max

Sounds like Mad Max

Yeah. Mad Max on Long Island NY. It was kind of crazy. Hope we never have to deal with that again.

$0.23 per gallon...gas wars in Indiana where I went to college.
I remember talk of a buck a gallon some day!
Back then my major paycheck was $409 per week while working summers at Chevy Engine Plant in Tonawanda!
It took years to make that much as an automotive engineer. Thank goodness for construction.
Bill

17.9 cents per gallon (Shell regular), circa 1970.

I remember .08 back in the 40's when you also needed coupons that the town would give out to anyone that had a good reason for driving anywhere.Our next door neighbor was a selectman and would give my father extra coupons so that we could visit our relatives in maine.

Remember different prices for credit card purchases? Remeber the first time you paid at the pump?

we had a country store that when the price hit 1.00 you had to give them 5.00 and only pump 2.50 because there pump only had 2 digits for the price on the pump. it was set at .50 so you still got 5 gallons. i guess they never figured it to go above 1.00 a gallon wonder if the new pumps can go above 9.99 a gallon

Gregg, don't even say that!

I remember pumping ethyl when she was 23.9 cents a gallon.

.88 cents filling up my '88 Escort GT

Balla!

$0.89 in 1995 and 1996.

10 kopecks for a liter - 4 rubles for the full tank of 93 in frmr.USSR. Then again, average salary was 120 rubles back then:eek:, but "under the table economy" was well developed.

As I was staring at my gas guzzler, I suddenly thought back to the good old days of $.93 per gallon. What's the cheapest gas you can remember buying?

To some of you old farts on here, don't get shy.



.16\9 Plus in those days most people didn't always fill up they would get $2.00 worth which was like 12 gals.


Jack