I guess some of us will be dating ourselves with our replys but here goes.

When I was in high school I remember driving my 1961 Oldsmobile F85 into the local station and paying 24.9 cents per gallon for gas. Back then a quart of oil was also 25 cents too. For a buck I could get three gallons of gas and a quart of oil.

What's the cheapest price you remember gas being, and what type of vehicle were you driving at the time?

I worked at a gas station before and during the "Arab Oil Embargo" of '73, drove a tricked out '71 Dodge Van and paid a little under 30 cents for a gallon for gas. Looking back, those were some pretty cool times to be working at that gas station....

$1.94 :x i cant remeber anything else!!!!

When I was about 15 years old three of my friends and I would kick in a $1 each and fill up our friends "'55 Ford convertible and go cruisin all Saturday nite. Gas was about $.25 a gallon.

In my relatively short lifetime I remember driving my 76 from portland, OR to virginia city, MT about 5 years ago and finding regular for $0.87 in Spokane, WA. It was a big deal to me then, the regular price being around $1.15 in Portland.

1968 in San Francisco I was 15 1/2 with my drivers permit. Gas wars going on back then. I remember going for a ride with my older cousin in his brand new '68 "HEMI" Road Runner paying 21 "CENTS" a gallon for PREMIUM 101 Leaded OCTANE!

1968 21 cents a gallon!!!! :P.....2004 only 91 octane at $2.89 a gallon! :cry:

I remember in a pre-embargo "gas war"...a local off-brand gas station selling regular (leaded) for $0.199/gallon! http://www.corvetteforum.cc/zeroimg/smilies/a11.gif

'Course...when i got my license, gas shot up to the REDICULOUS range of about $0.50/gal!http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Eeeeeek.gif

Way back when I first got my first chevrolet, I was paying about 14 cents on the Alameda Navel Base here in the Bay Area.

But now I would have never guessed that it would be as high as it is now , now here in Pittsburg California, the least cost of a Gallon is $2.25

GOD HELP US..........

I seem to remember $.21 9 during gas wars in 69 - 70. For $5.00 dollars I could fill my tank, buy a pack of Marlboro and get a burger. But at the time I was only making $2.00 per hour.

thecaptive
79 Caballero

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I seem to remember $.21 9 during gas wars in 69 - 70. For $5.00 dollars I could fill my tank, buy a pack of Marlboro and get a burger. But at the time I was only making $2.00 per hour.



Back then your 5 bucks was really worth something though.

Nowadays it costs me about 35 bucks to fill my tank, the Marlboro's are 4.69 a pack unless you buy 3 then they drop to like 3.99 a pack. You can still get a cheap burger (as in not a whopper or big mac ) for around .79 but you better buy 3 if you are hungry at all so make it 2.37. All told that's
42.06 before any taxes on the burger(s) or smokes. :)

As to the original question, I guess I'm a bit younger than some. THe lowest price for gas I can remember was .79 a gallon way back in the early 80's. 8)

It was 14.9 a gal. when I was in high school in Odessa Tx. in 1960.

LKMENO

I remember paying .11 per gallon in 1960. I was a rising sophomore in college and working a summer job in North Carolina. I drove a 1949 ford with a flathead engine. The state tax was .11 per gallon!

for me it was $0.23 a gal "Ethel" :D in my 54 Chevrolet Bel Air Coupe 2 door post.

Am I too young or are you people too old?????

the cheapest I really remember (besides the time it was $1 for 1 day) was about $1.20 around here in W. Virginia and $1.03 driving through Alabama on vacation

does anyone got a time machine? I could bring cheap gas back with me....... i could make a killing!!!!!!!!!

I remember about 2 years ago there was a new gas station opened up and was competing with anouther gas station down the street gas was down to something like 25 cents a gallon. Other wise the lowest I have seen it was around about a doller

Hey Sexy84, we might be old, but I don't know how old "too old" happens to be. Maybe you know. If so, how old is "too old"? I would like to inform my wife. She really wants to know.

A radio station here in the Bay Area was offering FREE gas. Just stop by and they would give anyone FREE gas. What they did not tell you was when you pulled up to the station the radio show host was giving out free cans of....BEANS! Giving YOU all the free GAS you can handle!

If gas prices get any higher a can of beans and a long hose could be a solution.

Hey Sexy84, we might be old, but I don't know how old "too old" happens to be. Maybe you know. If so, how old is "too old"? I would like to inform my wife. She really wants to know.


well thats easy......... and the age of being too old is 40 :) :) :)

Yeah well whats the highest you've seen gas at?

$2.98 for me!
I parked and walked where I needed to go.

You old guys, walked to school; uphill in the snow, backwards barefoot on broken glass... well at least gas was cheap!

Gas was 13.9 cents per gallon in Missouri near Blytheville, Arkansas in 1962. but that was when we thought that 20 miles per gallon was an impossibility!

I can barely remember about 35 cents, clearly remember 70 cents and still long for 80 cents.
Wasn't that long ago that I paid .85 cents for diesel, but going into a semi
was still a bit expensive!
:onfire:

around .70 in 1978. Had a 67 GTO,worked in a gas station for 2.00 an hr. Put in 10 hrs on Sat., fill up the tank and had enough left for a case of beer or 5th of R&R. Worked 12 hrs on Sunday to fill it up to get back and forth to school. AHHH the good ol days

Sexy84, we may be old but I don't know about "too old". How old is too old? If you know the answer, I would appreciate your sharing it with the rest of us. Besides, my wife really wants to know.

In high school I worked in a Sohio gas station, the Ohio version of Standard Oil stations. In the early 60's it was 23.9, went to 24.9 and then 26.9.

When it went to 26.9, an older man (probably in his 40's, but I thought he was old at the time) came in and when I went out to service him, he started hollering at me about the two cent increase. He acted like it was my fault. It was a bad experience for a 15 year old kid. I got over it, I'm now 57.

I bought gas today and it came down from $2.30 to $2.02 here in Cincinnati, whoopie!

Elky77

In 1961,when I was 9,I would take my Dad's 61 Chrysler wagon with a 413 dual quad to the Flying A gas station.Hi-Test was 22 cents even.He was a Chief of the local Fire Dept and would burn a set of rear tires off every 2 to 3 thousand miles.(Before radial tires or wide ovals even).
In my grandparents general store,Cigarettes were 13 cents a pack and 6 1/2 oz bottle of Coke was 5 cents,2 cents deposit 3 cents for the Coke.
8) Shane

In Orange County California the lowest i remmember and this was about 3 years back was $.89 cents gal., now days its $2.49 cents gal.