Gas Prices!
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Gas Prices!
Ouch! My 76 highboy has been sitting around an awful lot lately! Man it has become one expensive vehicle to drive around with these gas prices lately! Oh brother these prices are ridiculous!
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In 1974 I sold a 1971 Plymouth 440/6pack "Cuda" for $1,600 because of the gas crisis. I had more bills than cash at the time.It was in excellent condition and would bring in excess of $35,000 on todays market.
I will never again sell a vehicle because of the price of gas! I might drive the old grocery getter a little more but I think 11mpg of premium is still a good deal for the fun I get out of the old truck. (see gallery).
I will never again sell a vehicle because of the price of gas! I might drive the old grocery getter a little more but I think 11mpg of premium is still a good deal for the fun I get out of the old truck. (see gallery).
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Slow & Steady ---
I'm actively rebelling. You'll find me and my 460 in the right hand lane on most 4 lane highways doing 50 MPH - even letting the RICERS pass me for crying out loud!! Doing 55 in a 65 speed zone, coasting down hills when nobody is behind me and doing 35 in 40 mph zones (now THAT's painful!!..).
I think I might be ready to go to the bank and try for a $2000.00 loan to buy a TR-4 and let Harrison sit for the weekends...
I'm actively rebelling. You'll find me and my 460 in the right hand lane on most 4 lane highways doing 50 MPH - even letting the RICERS pass me for crying out loud!! Doing 55 in a 65 speed zone, coasting down hills when nobody is behind me and doing 35 in 40 mph zones (now THAT's painful!!..).
I think I might be ready to go to the bank and try for a $2000.00 loan to buy a TR-4 and let Harrison sit for the weekends...
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what trans, and rear end ratio? I feel your pain I haven't drove mine in a week, but hopefully a bit of relief is coming, they are about to boost oil production by 1.1mil barrels. I heard that we are paying about .35 per gallon tax just in case a terrorist attack disrupts production, I think they should take that and hire a real security force, why should we eat the cost of their security problems. That makes it sound as though if that were to happen fuel prices wouldn't change, we all know thats alot of bull.
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sounds like yall boys need to do like I did and get a junkyard job....we gotta strip the cars of their gas tanks and get all the precious fluids in there! Although if you get old gas, youre screwed, so Im still paying 2 bucks alot of the time, or at least 2 bottles of gas treatment....I thought we were winning in Iraq?
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My 77 460 C6 3.50LS rearend 32" tall tires gets between 6 and 8mpg. It doesn't get driven much anymore!!
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Well boys, its just a crying shame about the $$$$ for gas, i"ve got a 75 F-250 2WD with a mod.390,TCI tran"s,33" tires i"m getting i think between 6 an 8 ? per gal. i put gas in her day, and I was LOL because I"d opened both my gas doors, thinking $ 30.00 bucks was going to put gas in both tanks $$h-t it dident even fill one, that REG.gas at " { $ 2.29 } PER GAL. ITS all bull shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Originally Posted by nrselu
I have never gotten up the nerve to calculate my MPG, but what should I expect out of my 460 4V 2WD?
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Originally Posted by beartracks
In 1974 I sold a 1971 Plymouth 440/6pack "Cuda" for $1,600 because of the gas crisis. I had more bills than cash at the time.It was in excellent condition and would bring in excess of $35,000 on todays market.
I will never again sell a vehicle because of the price of gas! I might drive the old grocery getter a little more but I think 11mpg of premium is still a good deal for the fun I get out of the old truck. (see gallery).
I will never again sell a vehicle because of the price of gas! I might drive the old grocery getter a little more but I think 11mpg of premium is still a good deal for the fun I get out of the old truck. (see gallery).
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Ha !!!!!! You Guys are livin in paradise !!!!!
I pay well over twice what you pay for gas , and the English pay more than that again ......
You would go bankrupt if you drove a nice tasty F150 over here in about an hour !!!!!
I drove from Toronto to Michican and back , a couple of years ago... pulled into a gas station , guy comes out , how much ? he asks. I said put $20 in , he looked at me real funny , you know that " this dude has two heads look" ...
He managed to squash in about $10 !!!!!!!!
It was a Honda civic ......
Yeah , you guys have it easssssssy !!!!!!!!! :-)
Good luck !
I pay well over twice what you pay for gas , and the English pay more than that again ......
You would go bankrupt if you drove a nice tasty F150 over here in about an hour !!!!!
I drove from Toronto to Michican and back , a couple of years ago... pulled into a gas station , guy comes out , how much ? he asks. I said put $20 in , he looked at me real funny , you know that " this dude has two heads look" ...
He managed to squash in about $10 !!!!!!!!
It was a Honda civic ......
Yeah , you guys have it easssssssy !!!!!!!!! :-)
Good luck !
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Originally Posted by dono
Save some sympathy for the Brits who are paying $5.79 a gallon (TAX is $3.30 per gallon). Our gas is still cheap compared to other nations.
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