Looking for $.25 gasoline!

[Sharon]

Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners,
Michigan.
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[Bredehoft]

that's like 1/2 hour from me! are the Stude's their display or was a club visiting?

--george
Battle Creek

1963 Lark Daytona HT - 63V J8 175

[fstst56]

As a kid I mowed yards and bought many a gallon at 30 some cents per. That would have been 1967 thru 1971, when I got a 40 hr a week job at $1.00 per hour. This was a summer job, as I was in High School by then. Anti freeze was so cheap that we never saved it when having to drain the radiator to replace a water pump, etc. We just let it drain out onto the ground. Wouldn't get by with that nowadays. As an adult I was back in the old hometown having lunch at the big table in the local cafe where everybody that wanted to talk would congregate. I f you didn't want to talk, you would sit at a smaller table. Anyway, we were talking about how times had changed and one of the station ownwers that I had bought gas off of when I was a kid said that he could remember when you could fill up a Model A for a dollar, but he said, "You worked all day for that dollar!"

[studegary]

That station and those pumps date from long before gasoline was $0.25.

The price of gasoline doesn't bother me much. I have been paying more than $4. for awhile. It is the fact that oil price increases are driving everything else up. It doesn't seem like long ago fuel oil was $0.149. Next Winter it will be $4.999 ($5K to heat my home). Some people are raising other prices using fuel as an excuse. It cost me 60% more for a Spring clean up on my lawn. The gasoline used should have increased the price maybe 5%.

Gary L.
Wappinger, NY

SDC member since 1968
Studebaker enthusiast much longer

[rodnutrandy]

I too remember gas prices in early 70's. I worked at a station of cut rate prices and we often sold for 19.9. At same time my boss was running a B/ Gas hemi Henry J and would buy hemi cars for spare motors for less than $2000, I remember 1 70 Cuda hemi bought for $2000. I think we will never see those prices again, but who knows , I think a recession is headed our way.

Randy Wilkin
1946 M5 Streetrod
Hillsboro,Ohio 45133