We always bought our gas at a Sinclair station in Washington, DC or Marlow Heights.
11 cents (during price war) around 1960 fall semester while in high school in Texas, never paid over 18 cents per gallon that semester if I recall. My cherry 1958 Ford Fairlane 4-door hardtop automatic with 351 Police Interceptor, rolled and pleated seats, lakers - 10-11 mpg.
Back when a penny a gallon saved meant extra cruise time between point A (Drive Inn - meet, eat, rest) and point B (Other points of interest to see and be seen/county roads checks to see who was parking) and back again, and back again...Back when groups of boys were boys and groups of girls were girls and we used to chase each other around the county in our cars and exchange social pleasantries if we didn’t have dates or a football game or a drag race going somewhere. Boy were we naive. Sorry to digress.
During local gas wars in SoCal in early-mid 60’s, perhaps also late 50’s, $.16 was lowest I ever saw to $.17/gal., normal was somewhere between $.21 - $.25, as I recall.
Best prices at local Powerine self-serve station. I hardly ever had the cash to fill my ‘54 Ford, it was more like put in enough gas at a time for a night’s worth of cruising or to get back and forth to school and to work afterward.
Our local gas station would have a 5 gallons for a dollar sale—late sixties.
33 cents. And a Free Angela Davis with every fill-up!
1969 - 25-29 cents per gallon.
10 cents
25 cents/gal...rural foothills of California about the time I got my license/first car (1977). I remember driving past the only gas station in Yosemite valley (since removed) and thinking “Look, they are ripping off the tourists at 50 cents a gallon!!”.
There were also frequent "gas wars" and I vaguely remember seeing gas sell for 19 cents a gallon during one of these high octane conflicts.
When I was about five years old in the ‘60s, I remember seeing .24. I did not know what the number meant. When I started driving in the late ‘70s, it was about .75. It had jumped 20 cents under Carter’s leadership.
We always bought our gas at a Sinclair station in Washington, DC or Marlow Heights.