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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.