Remember when??
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Originally Posted by Beast12
Remember when you ran home after school to watch 'Saved By The Bell'?
Do you remember when gas was $0.50 a LITRE?
If not then you are WAY older than me!
-Matt
Do you remember when gas was $0.50 a LITRE?
If not then you are WAY older than me!
-Matt
We are way older than you !LOL!!!!
But we like you ,not to worry !!!!!
Rich
Just to stir monsta pot! ,how is this related to v-10 engines ????
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As a kid I watched the gas pumped into the overhead glass container that had gallons marked on the side of it. Then watched as it gravity flowed back into dads car. If we were good we would get a coke. All cold drinks were called cokes. People would always tell the service station man to please "Drain the hose please". If you self served instead of full service.. you would go inside and tell them how much gas you got. Oh... first car was 1951 Olds 88 .. made into a pickup and hauled hay with it for a penny a bale. Gas was like twenty five cents.
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When I was in high school, not long after I got my license. I remember paying $.89/gal... This was early 90's... Went right back up a week after it hit that. But it still sticks in my head.
My grandpa always grumbles when he has to fill up his car. He told me about when he was a kid, he could completely fill his car for $2... So when I'm with him, I tell him to give me $2 and I'll fill up his tank for him. Kinda takes him back... If only a little.
My grandpa always grumbles when he has to fill up his car. He told me about when he was a kid, he could completely fill his car for $2... So when I'm with him, I tell him to give me $2 and I'll fill up his tank for him. Kinda takes him back... If only a little.
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From: Washington State
Originally Posted by FortyFords
Just to stir monsta pot! ,how is this related to v-10 engines ????
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This thread isn't really about age or anything...it is just that those prices are only a couple years back!! .65 a gallon (although it was that price in my lifetime) doesn't even register in my brain. Gas prices DOUBLING in two years, however unfortunant, does.
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Beast12,
SAVED BY THE BELL??
I didn't think guys actually watched that show, let alone "rushed home to watch it". 
Hmmmmm...I'm beginning to wonder. 
Last edited by Monsta; Feb 24, 2006 at 01:13 PM.
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That show rocked! Kelly was sooooo hot! 
-Matt
P.S. I was like 14 at the time. Maybe even younger.
-Matt
P.S. I was like 14 at the time.
Maybe even younger.
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Originally Posted by Agronomist
As a kid I watched the gas pumped into the overhead glass container that had gallons marked on the side of it. Then watched as it gravity flowed back into dads car. If we were good we would get a coke. All cold drinks were called cokes. People would always tell the service station man to please "Drain the hose please". If you self served instead of full service.. you would go inside and tell them how much gas you got. Oh... first car was 1951 Olds 88 .. made into a pickup and hauled hay with it for a penny a bale. Gas was like twenty five cents.
