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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #15 on: 09 November 2007, 13:54:04 »
Yep 2* mixed with 2 stroke oil. Only cost a couple of quid to fill my Vespa in 1982
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #16 on: 09 November 2007, 14:08:21 »
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I cant even remember what petrol cost when I started driving. 1970.

6 shillings and 8 pence per gallon. Apparently. :y
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #17 on: 09 November 2007, 14:10:17 »
Just Think in 5 odd years there will be another Thread and we will be saying

Do you remember when LPG was 40pence a litre not like it is today at £1.00
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #18 on: 09 November 2007, 14:12:19 »
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I cant even remember what petrol cost when I started driving. 1970.

6 shillings and 8 pence per gallon. Apparently. :y

Three gallons for a quid! Kinnell.
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #19 on: 09 November 2007, 15:11:15 »
When I started driving (1992) petrol was around 45.9 per litre.

I remember 2 star being available as well!
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #20 on: 09 November 2007, 15:31:21 »
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When I started driving (1992) petrol was around 45.9 per litre.

I remember 2 star being available as well!

 ..... and there was also 5 star.

I use to fill my CD175 when I was 17 for around £1.50 That was in 1979 & petrol was about 50 pence a gallon.
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #21 on: 09 November 2007, 15:32:06 »
whe I started driving 5* was still available...just, can remember what we were paying but on payday used to fill my mini up with it....razz it around thinking the extra octane had to be worth 10bhp and then run it on 2* for the rest of the week as I was broke.....

those were the days
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #22 on: 09 November 2007, 16:21:25 »
1957, 5 shillings (25p) or about 13p per litre :y
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #23 on: 09 November 2007, 16:43:52 »
I started just before the illustrious Mr Meldrew, about 1968, and I can't remember either. However I do still have my petrol ration coupons from the 1973 crisis  :o.

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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #24 on: 09 November 2007, 16:52:12 »
Had a motorbike when I was 17 in 1988 not a car, but I am sure petrol was about £1.80 a gallon definately less that £2 :-?
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #25 on: 09 November 2007, 17:26:45 »
I started driving not long after the petrol ration books were issued up North in Sheffield, it must have beed in the mid 70s, or there abouts.

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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #26 on: 09 November 2007, 17:32:54 »
Ahhhh memories... :)

2 Star, 4 Star (Premium and Regular) an 5 star. Petrol ration vouchers  :y

Those were the days.

75p a gallon, so about £7.50 to fill the tank on my Hillman Avenger back in '77.  :y

Beer was about 24p a pint at the Students union and I earned £27.50 for a 40 hr week.

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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #27 on: 09 November 2007, 17:35:05 »
...Oh, and the Avenger was a 1969 model which cost me £60 secondhand and lasted me three years!

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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #28 on: 09 November 2007, 17:37:27 »
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Ahhhh memories... :)

2 Star, 4 Star (Premium and Regular) an 5 star. Petrol ration vouchers  :y

Those were the days.

75p a gallon, so about £7.50 to fill the tank on my Hillman Avenger back in '77.  :y

Beer was about 24p a pint at the Students union and I earned £27.50 for a 40 hr week.

Luxury!

Filled up many a fuel tank on my sad old Wartburg on 2 star.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Petrol Price when you STARTED driving
« Reply #29 on: 09 November 2007, 19:13:57 »
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Filled up many a fuel tank on my sad old Wartburg on 2 star.

Mate of mine had a Wartburg when we were at school. Handy built-in navigational aid - well ahead of its' time. If you get lost and need to retrace your route just turn round and follow the blue smoke!

Happy days.  ;D

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