Grampa tell me ‘bout the Good Old Days

[hornetguy]

13 cents/gallon gas - until the 'gas war' then 12 cents.

"normal" for me was 29.9, until the gas war, then 19.9.... it went up pretty sharply in the next few years....

 

[hornetguy]

Remember replacing points and plugs every few weeks? Glad that's a thing of the past....

 

[deemus]

I remember my mom complaining because it was 27 cents a gallon.

 

[striker55]

I remember cigarettes from a machine and there were pennies in the wrapper. Probably change from a quarter.

 

[no2gates]

Remember replacing points and plugs every few weeks? Glad that's a thing of the past....

Yeah, but now there's no way to fix your own car since it's all computerized.
I only replaced plugs about once a year and didn't mind it at all, and only a handful of times ever had to replace points or distributor caps.

 

[paknheat]

Remember replacing points and plugs every few weeks? Glad that's a thing of the past....

Sure do. My dad had a machine in his shop that cleaned the plugs, so I used it to get an extra year or so outta the plugs before I replaced them.


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[deemus]

Sure do. My dad had a machine in his shop that cleaned the plugs, so I used it to get an extra year or so outta the plugs before I replaced them.


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I saw an uncle sanding this spark plugs with fine sandpaper. I did that for years.

 

[TEXAS "All or nothing"]

In '84 all I bought (and still my go-to's) are cci's. Price was about 2 cents per. When it became an online thing, delivered price was about 2.5 cents per. No grandkids or any of my 6 are married (4 still in school, twins 8th grade, 1 junior, 1 senior).

 

[TexMex247]

Sadly most of my current stock probably has an average price of 5 cents each. I splurged on some magnum match rifle primers a few years ago and traded for some recently for more than I'd prefer to spend but I may have enough rifle primers to keep me going for a couple decades. Also bought 10k CCI sp and CCI spms. Dropped 6 cents each on those. But I'm happy to have what I do, rather have than have not.

 

[SARGE67]

But remember in the 70s when the oil embargo happened and prices shot up.
A lot of gas stations had to sell gas by the liter since the price wouldn't go over 99.9 cents per unit of measure.

I remember the odd/even number who could buy gas and me getting up early to get in line. However, once gas got to $1.00 a gallon, there was suddenly plenty of gas. All those cargo ships sitting out in the ocean full of oil began delivering once again. I knew then we were being played....

 

[striker55]

My buddy had a gas station, he put extra long hoses so his good customers could get gas on any day. Pull the car into a repair bay, extra long hose did the trick.

 

[Iowashooter]

I saw an uncle sanding this spark plugs with fine sandpaper. I did that for years.

I still do that to the plug in my lawmower

 

[striker55]

In the 70's I bought a dwell meter, I remember tuning up my grandfather's car, felt good helping out.

 

[mroper]

I still do that to the plug in my lawmower

i would take my moms or sisters old nail files