Stupid things I heard at the Car Show last nite

[commando1]

Then he asked what engine... I said "440" and he asked "350 ... Geez... just about floored me...

You dont find that kind of knowledge at the gas pump these days

You just stirred up some memories. I did what every kid did back in the sixties. I worked in a gas station. The thing that I remember most about pumping gas into a gazzilion cars back then was knowing where each model of the fifties cars hid their gas filler. Some of them were downright ingenious. GM designers did the most LSD when hiding them.
Next was knowing what hoops of fire you had to jump through to find the latch to pop the hood. Last was to automatically know where the dipstick was without looking.
Oh, and every tire without fail was 32 psi. No matter what it was "supposed" to be.

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[Rattle Trap]

I may have been there 20ish years behind you, but you also stir some still vivid memories of a better time in this world. Our "jalopy's" that got fixed jp courtesy of the free use of the station's lifts, ( remember when they had those?) were musclecars that we drug off side streets, out of back yards, and junkyards. What was the fare in your day?

Its funmy, I always envied your generation when younger and.didn't appreciate that I was gifted.with a similar experience til now as I think of how much its all changed since we could share similar stories from different generations if we ignore the ignorant people we come across as a result of those changes.

 

[bluefury361]

Stan is correct again. What I was trying to convey was that you have read the book.

OHHhh...... :sFun_doh2:Yes, I did.

 

[polara71]

Stan, really? My gas station days were in 84, 85 and some of 86. I was the same way.
I took pride in filler neck locations

 

[70NPORT]

My first real job was pumping gas at Exxon in the early to mid nineties. Lots of cool memories of hotrod cars coming thru on Friday and Saturday nights to gas up.

 

[theos911]

My Dad pumped gas in the mid 70's. He still tells the story about the lady with a bad lisp who was asking for a "whiskbwoom." Ron said to just bring it around back and he'll blow it out at the air pump.

Turns out she was saying "westwoom."

She was not amused.

 

[polara71]

February, 86, a black Superbird pulls into the station. 11,000 original miles, originally Alpine white, she was a hemi four speed car. The driver was going to a wedding .....that was a good Saturday morning for me

 

[detmatt]

And you didn't take a pic with your phone?

 

[70NPORT]

Nice joke,lol.

 

[polara71]

No, I couldn't reach the rotary with the metal cord stretched out, plus I had no dimes

 

[bluefury361]

My brother ran a Sunoco station in Dearborn Mich in the mid 70's where we turned wrenchs in a three bay shop. These were the days of Sunoco custom blended pumps and 110 octain "260" pump gas. Lots of cool machines rolled through there.

 

[Wildaugust]

I remember a Sunoco station on Leila Avenue (in Winnipeg) back in the early seventies where, as a kid, my friends and I while out riding our bicycles, would stop for a few minutes and hang around to watch all the "cool cars" pull in for gas.

 

[1978 NYB]

Sunoco 260...........the good old days.

 

[commando1]

Amoco "White" gas...

 

[bluefury361]

Sunoco 260...........the good old days.

Heres a pic of my restored Wayne 511 Custom Blend pump. I added the lighted display area in the lower portion..

 

[70NPORT]

Heres a pic of my restored Wayne 511 Custom Blend pump. I added the lighted display area in the lower portion..

My father-in-law used to put that stuff in his cougar. Wish we could get that nowadays. Imagine that, non-programmable, non-digital pumps. Wow.