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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Hell, I'm telling that now to my cousin's kids. Oh you turned 16 and got your license! When I was your age gas was 90 cents a gallon! Amazing what a 6yr age difference can do for stories in a family.
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OK, now let's go WAY back.
My very first car (high school) was a little four cylinder Austin Healey Sprite.
You had to use "high test," or what we would call premium today because of its high compression engine.
It had an 8 gallon tank, but I didn't know that.
The first time I went into the gas station to fill up, I told the "attendent" who pumped the gas in those days -- no self serve -- that I wanted "$2.00 worth of high test."
It wouldn't fit.
At 21 cents per gallon, the most I could have paid to fill up was $1.68.