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[05omegav6]

Just found a boatyard receipt from 2002...

102 litres of, admittedly red, diesel


Total paid £34.68.

Ten years later and you can put a 1 in front of that

[Taxi_Driver]

I know Omegas are sometimes called 'barges'

Did you have a td you used as a taxi, back then 

[BazaJT]

Rather unfortunately I can go back to a time when petrol was 7/6d [37.5p]aGALLON!!Recall people also saying at one time "Petrol a £1 a gallon never happen"!!You also had a choice of 3,4 or 5 star fuel.

[TheBoy]

Rather unfortunately I can go back to a time when petrol was 7/6d [37.5p]aGALLON!!Recall people also saying at one time "Petrol a £1 a gallon never happen"!!You also had a choice of 3,4 or 5 star fuel.

You missed 2 star.  My Triumph Acclaim ran on 2 star.

[dbug]

Rather unfortunately I can go back to a time when petrol was 7/6d [37.5p]aGALLON!!Recall people also saying at one time "Petrol a £1 a gallon never happen"!!You also had a choice of 3,4 or 5 star fuel.

Thats expensive - I use to buy 4 star @ 4/4p a gallon - 4 gallons and change from a pound!!

[albitz]

I currently get fuel for my Cavalier 1.7TD for between 0p and 50p per litre. It broke my heart having to drive an LPG,d Omega to work today.

[05omegav6]

I know Omegas are sometimes called 'barges'

Did you have a td you used as a taxi, back then 

sadly not

Only ever owned 2 diseasals, a 1.9 cdti Vectra C for 6 months, which was very quick, but also very crap, and a SEAT Altea XL for 2 years, which oddly enough was also crap. Bought my first Omega in 2005, and that was only because I couldn't bring myself to buy a frog faced Scorpio

[Entwood]

Rather unfortunately I can go back to a time when petrol was 7/6d [37.5p]aGALLON!!Recall people also saying at one time "Petrol a £1 a gallon never happen"!!You also had a choice of 3,4 or 5 star fuel.

Thats expensive - I use to buy 4 star @ 4/4p a gallon - 4 gallons and change from a pound!!

When I was a kid I loved folks like you ...sometimes ...  "4 gallons of best sir? and would you like your oil and tyres checked and the windscreen cleaned ? ... certainly sir ... everythings fine that'll be 17s 4d sir, from a £1 I'll fetch the change sir ... keep it sir ?? thank you very much " ....   didn't always happen but I expected to make a couple of quid in tips on a saturday morning .. I did find that when "best" reached 4s 9d I actually made more tips from the odd shilling than the few bigger ones from before !!

[omega3000]

I know Omegas are sometimes called 'barges'

Did you have a td you used as a taxi, back then 

sadly not

Only ever owned 2 diseasals, a 1.9 cdti Vectra C for 6 months, which was very quick, but also very crap, and a SEAT Altea XL for 2 years, which oddly enough was also crap. Bought my first Omega in 2005, and that was only because I couldn't bring myself to buy a frog faced Scorpio

Lovely car that and can be bought for pence now with optional rust , i nearly bought one too 

[cleggy]

Rather unfortunately I can go back to a time when petrol was 7/6d [37.5p]aGALLON!!Recall people also saying at one time "Petrol a £1 a gallon never happen"!!You also had a choice of 3,4 or 5 star fuel.

Thats expensive - I use to buy 4 star @ 4/4p a gallon - 4 gallons and change from a pound!!

When I was a kid I loved folks like you ...sometimes ...  "4 gallons of best sir? and would you like your oil and tyres checked and the windscreen cleaned ? ... certainly sir ... everythings fine that'll be 17s 4d sir, from a £1 I'll fetch the change sir ... keep it sir ?? thank you very much " ....   didn't always happen but I expected to make a couple of quid in tips on a saturday morning .. I did find that when "best" reached 4s 9d I actually made more tips from the odd shilling than the few bigger ones from before !!

Good god over 1/2 a dollar tip that's a packet of fags, or two pints of best bitter in the lounge, with a packet of crisp in the tap room. 

[05omegav6]

Actually had the car filled at an attended service station yesterday Nice touch, I thought And only a penny dearer than the cheapest fuel on that journey, (£1.36)

Picador, formerly Pats Garage, in Lyndhurst if you happen to be down that way

[Turk]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 25p.

[Entwood]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   

[Vamps]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   

 

[Turk]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   

Nah, decimalisation had happened about 7 yrs earlier.   

[Entwood]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   

Nah, decimalisation had happened about 7 yrs earlier.   

Then petrol was NOt 25p a gallon !!!

decimalisation was in 1971 ... in 1978 petrol was 76.5 a gallon !!   last time petrol was 5s (60d) (25p) was 1964 !!!

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaa.com%2Fpublic_affairs%2Freports%2FPetrol_Prices_1896_todate_gallons.pdf&ei=QiScUN-mH4y10QWErIDYCA&usg=AFQjCNEg_gc_w7SQGNOEsnHr7uZL_r9nFQ

[Auto Addict]

I can remember my Dad going to the petrol station (in the days when they used to serve you) and saying '5 gallons please', give him a pound note and say 'Keep the change', albeit only pennies in those days.

[Vamps]

Why did we buy by the Gallon in those days, why not just fill up as we do now??

I can understand saying put in £10.00 or whatevers worth but no one says 60L please, or do they..

[Entwood]

Why did we buy by the Gallon in those days, why not just fill up as we do now??

I can understand saying put in £10.00 or whatevers worth but no one says 60L please, or do they..

The pumps back then did NOT have a value indicator ... fuel was sold by quantity, and a ready reckoner in the office was used for any thing too complicated !!

When the price changed the reckoner was changed ... and that was it !!! (and we did NOT have calculators either !! )

[pscocoa]

easy to remember my first petrol purchases as it was 3 gallons for a £ . That is 6s 8d for each gallon. That was 1969.

[Andy B]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

[Vamps]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

Don't tell me you can not remember LSD...........

[albitz]

My first time on the road (legally at least) was 28th October 1975 on a moped which did approx. 120mpg.The price of a gallon was approx 50p,plus a squirt of 2 stroke for another 5p.
Times have changed indeed.

[78bex]

Ahh the smell of 2 stoke in the mornings...........

[albitz]

Cant beat it mate. I love 2 stroke engines.
A set of small files and a good brain could bring huge gains to power output. I had the files,but unfortunately not the brains.

[pscocoa]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

less of the "old" tag please

[Vamps]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

less of the "old" tag please

+1........

[henryd]

My first time on the road (legally at least) was 28th October 1975 on a moped which did approx. 120mpg.The price of a gallon was approx 50p,plus a squirt of 2 stroke for another 5p.
Times have changed indeed.

I hit the road on an FS1E a few months later at similar fuel prices

[Auto Addict]

Ahh the smell of 2 stoke in the mornings...........

She was only the garage mans daughter, but she loved the smell of Benzole.............

[cleggy]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

less of the "old" tag please

+1........

+2

When I were a lad mi dad went owt on Friday neet wi half a crown, had 5 pints, a packet of woodies and matches, and brought fish and chip home for me, mam and the dog. Then he bought a car and spent it all on petrol

[Sir Tigger KC]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

Don't tell me you can not remember LSD...........

If you can remember LSD you weren't enjoying yourself enough!!! 

[05omegav6]

There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................ 

Don't tell me you can not remember LSD...........

If you can remember LSD you weren't enjoying yourself enough!!! 

There's a chap in our Pub Quiz team who claims to know nothing about the late 60's and 70's for that very reason

[Turk]

I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   

Nah, decimalisation had happened about 7 yrs earlier.   

Then petrol was NOt 25p a gallon !!!

decimalisation was in 1971 ... in 1978 petrol was 76.5 a gallon !!   last time petrol was 5s (60d) (25p) was 1964 !!!

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaa.com%2Fpublic_affairs%2Freports%2FPetrol_Prices_1896_todate_gallons.pdf&ei=QiScUN-mH4y10QWErIDYCA&usg=AFQjCNEg_gc_w7SQGNOEsnHr7uZL_r9nFQ

   Oops, yes you're right. Thinking back, the 25p was what I was getting an hour.  The petrol was 75p.
(I've slept a few times since then ! )