Except mine was no 'clone'
350/375 over .30 4spd clutched auto 'ramshifter'.
Only ran on Sunoco 260
Posted on 07/17/2008 1:06:26 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
And do you remember what you paid for gas at that time?
My first car was a 1972 Pontiac Parisienne my dad gave to me in 1975, I have no idea how much I paid for gas but I do remember driving it for weeks without having to stop and put gas in it..
I think my favorite car was a 68 Cutlass.
When I had my first car, gas was 40.9 a gallon at Texaco. Cigarettes were 60 cents a pack. I was working at the station and every night these two guys would come in and give me a buck for a pack of Marlboro’s and just under a gallon of gas. Then they cruised around, listened to the radio, and smoked. That was their night.
1980 Ford Bronco. IIRC, gas was about a buck a gallon.
Purchased a 1965 rambler for a hundred dollars in 1970...gas was around 25 cents a gallon then...purchased a 1951 chevy pickup 2 years later for $100...co op gas was 21.9. Filled up our 2005 Dodge Caravan last week...$65($4.49). I am sure glad I sold my 1977 K5 Blazer, with it’s 40 gallon tank, a couple of years ago.
Except mine was no 'clone'
350/375 over .30 4spd clutched auto 'ramshifter'.
Only ran on Sunoco 260
WOW! Many of you had cars worth as they say today some *Big Jack* if you had it now....
Funny reading all these posts so many people knew how to work on there own cars, in fact that is what you use to see at one given time on your steet. Come saturday people were either working on there cars in the driveway or mowing the lawn!
1973 Grand Am 4 dr, 400 c.i. V-8, auto. ~11 mpg. I got it from my parents in 1981, drove it until 83, retired it with 127K miles.
But it was mine!!!!!
A 1954 Mercury convertible, flathead V-8, painted Baby Blue. I paid $.159 a gallon in 1960.
1962 Chevy Impala SS. Two-door hardtop, 327 engine, bucket seats, mag wheels. It was white when I bought it in 1968 for $500 and I paid $90 to get it painted metallic blue. Sold it in 1970 for $350. Man, I wish I still had that car!
1965 IHC 4X4 pickup truck. I wish I still had it, dangit. That was in 1981 or so, and I think gas was around 80 cents a gal, though I can’t remember for sure.
My 66 Impala is in the drive as we speak.
I didn’t start (officially) driving till my late 30’s. First rig was an 84 Blazer with the 2.8
Second was my wifes 94 Sentra that I inherited after she passed. Nice little car, very economical.
Still have all of them and they all still run and I keep the tanks full at all times!
1979 Chevy Vega.
In 1982, my dad handed me the keys to his 73 Opel station wagon. It had am RADIO and no AC, so my sister named it the “hot box.”
It had a black steering wheel which used to bake in the Georgia heat. This was back before someone invented those nifty sun shade things, so I threw a jacket or towel over my steering wheel when I’d park the car. It was still too hot to touch on the drive home from my summer job at Wendy’s.
Novas used to be a dime a dozen but I get excited if I see one these days. My girlfriend says the perfect birthday present for her would be a 73 Duster.
In 1970 my first car was a 1964 Studebaker.
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