What's The Cheapest You Remember A Gallon of Gas?

[1978 NYB]

Guess who bought a C body Chrysler and shipped it from the US to The Netherlands last year

The normal-ish gas price is around 7.5USD/Gallon (which it is now) and the high was almost 9USD/Gallon.

Most older cars (40 Years and older) are converted to run bifuel, LPG and Petrol. (younger cars are heavily taxed)
LPG is only 2.5USD/Gallon around here.

When I was in the Army and stationed in Europe from the 1970's to 1990's we had a gas ration card. We paid the same low prices that we paid in the States.

 

[Mid70's Chrysler Fanatic]

Forty-nine cents per gallon. Unless you mean when I became old enough to drive, in which case, add about a buck.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

I remember looking out the back window of Dad's car during a gas stop at a Texaco station like this one in the 60's on the way to Granma's house for a holiday vacation/visit. Of course it was Texaco as Dad worked for Texaco in the heavy oil division(?) then.

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[Snotty]

The cheapest I remember is in the 20 cent range in the '60s when my parents filled up. Lowest I've ever paid was $.47. That was in 1974 when I bought my first car. That was in August; prices went up after that. I remember when they first went over a dollar and the pumps were not set up for such a price. So they charged $.51 a gallon, and doubled it for your final price.

 

[polara71]

Ouch, And it still had five gallons in it.

 

[BigblueC]

Ouch, And it still had five gallons in it.

If I'd run my truck down to the light at the current 3.69 per gal I'd be looking at around $120 fill-up.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

1975 Urban Gas Prices

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[The Goose]

$0.99 in 2001

Yup. In Az it was 88¢ at Arco. Figure in inflation and that might just beat the 60’s prices.

The only thing I truly remember from 1960’s gas was my dear ol dad hitting certain stations to get us Hotwheels with a fill up and my little sister a Noah’s ark set. No idea how many stops that took. Seemed like she had 100 animals to go with that deal. He just kept at it and made it happen.

 

[polara71]

Yup. In Az it was 88¢ at Arco. Figure in inflation and that might just beat the 60’s prices.

The only thing I truly remember from 1960’s gas was my dear ol dad hitting certain stations to get us Hotwheels with a fill up and my little sister a Noah’s ark set. No idea how many stops that took. Seemed like she had 100 animals to go with that deal. He just kept at it and made it happen.

Those giveaways were at the Shell station. I had a pile of those animals, never got the boat.
The Hot wheels too, I remember that.

 

[SGT FURY]

Remember the hot wheels giveaway well.

 

[SGT FURY]

These came from a military gas station. 440,360,and 300.

 

[rapidtrans]

Ouch, And it still had five gallons in it.

This week I paid $4.30 a gallon for 92 octane in the middle of nowhere Upper Peninsula.
Usually runs around $3.80 downstate.

 

[Old Mike]

I first got my license in ‘72 and I remember something like 43 cents per. My Dad was cool and let me use his car on Saturdays sometimes. One of my friends could get his Dad’s car on Fridays after he came home from work. So three or four of us would throw between $5 and $10 together and we had wheels! Getting the girls to pile in the car with us was even easier. A couple of years later came the first oil embargo.

 

[The Goose]

I remember looking out the back window of Dad's car during a gas stop at a Texaco station like this one in the 60's on the way to Granma's house for a holiday vacation/visit. Of course it was Texaco as Dad worked for Texaco in the heavy oil division(?) then.

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We had a Texaco up in Winslow back in the olden days thru the 60’s.

That’s the oldest version of the Winslow Cash Store. Got more “modern” as the years went by.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

.19 in '55 all over LA County and Orange County and no gas war going on. I worked at a Ralphs Market in Whittier making about $60 a week in that AFL-CIO shop back then. '39 & '40 Phordz were $40+$50 carz then and my '48 Triumph 350 was only $125. Sold My '47 Knuckle Head to buy the thumper and never looked back. I used to cash my pay checks at the bank across the street from the Ralphs and have them pay me in ALL Silver Dollars just the make my Levies hang low on my butt, lol. I waz in Hog Heaven, Jer

 

[1978 NYB]

Some of the old gas stations in Milwaukee......

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[69 300 vert]

$0.19 at a Ginn station outside of Omaha during an early 70's gas war. Gas was typically $0.32 - $0.34 cents a gallon before the oil embargo. I also remember the pumps were you could select five different grades of gas, with appropriate pricing as the octane level went up.

Pretty much the same, Dad got it for 18.9¢ somewhere, don't remember where in his '61 Catalina Wagon. By the time I started driving pre OPEC, it was typically 30~35¢ / gallon. Been in Texas continuously since 1972 and don't have Clark / Sunoco stations, seems like I recall Clark having more than premium and regular? Sunoco had 190 thru 260 to choose from. Dad always got 190 for the '61, 389 / 215 hp, IIRC.

 

[rapidtrans]

In addition to gas price wars, 18cents in Detroit, during the ‘60s, stations also had various give-away campaigns. Remember the orange styrofoam balls attendants slid on your antenna? I recall a Gulf and 76 logo on some but most were just plain orange. Some folks covered the whole antenna mast down to the base. Course then you power antennas that popped them off as soon as it’s lowered. Dad hated these things on his brand new cars and took them off as soon as he got home. As kids we thought they were cool though and grandpa kept one on his Valiant for years. Said it helped him find his car in the grocery parking lots.