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Re: How times change...
« Reply #15 on: 08 November 2012, 21:30:06 »
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Quote from: Entwood on 08 November 2012, 21:13:36
Quote from: Turk on 08 November 2012, 20:59:13
I had an 'after school' job at a petrol station (14 yrs old and legally filling cars with fuel :o ). A gallon was 5s 0d

Fixed that for you !!!   :)

Nah, decimalisation had happened about 7 yrs earlier.   :y

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 !!!

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Re: How times change...
« Reply #16 on: 08 November 2012, 21:33:51 »
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.
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #17 on: 08 November 2012, 22:02:01 »
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.. :D :D
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #18 on: 08 November 2012, 22:04:08 »
Quote from: Vamps on 08 November 2012, 22:02:01
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.. :D :D

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 !! )
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #19 on: 08 November 2012, 22:09:59 »
easy to remember my first petrol purchases as it was 3 gallons for a £ . That is 6s 8d for each gallon. That was 1969.
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #20 on: 08 November 2012, 23:20:08 »
There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................  ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #21 on: 08 November 2012, 23:24:10 »
Quote from: Andy B on 08 November 2012, 23:20:08
There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Don't tell me you can not remember LSD........... :D :D
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« Reply #22 on: 08 November 2012, 23:24:57 »
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. :)
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #23 on: 08 November 2012, 23:31:14 »
Ahh the smell of 2 stoke in the mornings...........
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« Reply #24 on: 08 November 2012, 23:32:58 »
Cant beat it mate. I love 2 stroke engines. :y
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. ;D
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #25 on: 08 November 2012, 23:33:08 »
Quote from: Andy B on 08 November 2012, 23:20:08
There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................  ::) ::) ::) ::)

less of the "old" tag please
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #26 on: 08 November 2012, 23:43:19 »
Quote from: pscocoa on 08 November 2012, 23:33:08
Quote from: Andy B on 08 November 2012, 23:20:08
There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................  ::) ::) ::) ::)

less of the "old" tag please

+1........ :P
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #27 on: 09 November 2012, 00:38:20 »
Quote from: Albitz on 08 November 2012, 23:24:57
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 :y
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #28 on: 09 November 2012, 06:59:13 »
Quote from: 78bex on 08 November 2012, 23:31:14
Ahh the smell of 2 stoke in the mornings...........

She was only the garage mans daughter, but she loved the smell of Benzole............. ::)
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Re: How times change...
« Reply #29 on: 09 November 2012, 09:09:19 »
Quote from: Vamps on 08 November 2012, 23:43:19
Quote from: pscocoa on 08 November 2012, 23:33:08
Quote from: Andy B on 08 November 2012, 23:20:08
There are some old bu66ers on this forum ................  ::) ::) ::) ::)

less of the "old" tag please

+1........ :P

+2 :P

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 :D :D ;D ;D
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