<VV> Gas price survery - not what you think

[Charles Fregeau]

I lived in Danville IL in 1973.  We filled up the Corvair with the LAST gas
sold at the Star Service station (cheapest gas in town) for 24.9.  He was
getting ready to close.  Next day the same gas was 40.9 because that's as
high as the pumps would go.  

After that some of the gas stations started buying "Canadian" gas pumps
because they would go up to 50.9, I think they had to regear them for US
Gallons instead of Imperial gallons.

We may have gotten cheaper gas in Mississippi somewhere on our long trip in
1971, but I don't remember the price.  I remember us pretty much always
paying 32.9 in the 60's but we lived in Chicago most of that decade.

Charles Fregeau


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What is the lowest gasoline price you ever saw during the "Corvair Decade"?

Going back in time-------in May 1961 I was working my way through college
and the new owner of a '61 Corvair 700 Coupe. I had a week of vacation at
the end of the spring semester so my wife & I headed south from Charleston
WV to Florida on US Highway 21. This was old fashioned, pre-interstate
travel and went through long stretches of rural countryside.  Back home in
Charleston, regular gas cost about 32 cents. South of Columbia SC, a
gasoline price war was under way. My Vair, with its 84HP PG, was averaging
about 25mpg so it was hard to pass those "lowest gas price here" signs and
finally I did pull in and fill up at 15.9 cents per gallon. I didn't think I
would ever see it that low again since the gasoline taxes must have been
almost that high. I was wrong though; not more than 10 or 15 miles later a
station was selling it for 12.9! That is by far the best gasoline price I
ever saw but with a full tank, I had to pass it up.

Keep in mind though, the new Corvair cost under $2400 and motel rooms on
Daytona beach were $5.00 per night in 1961.


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Frank DuVal <corvairduval at cox.net> wrote:

> How about when gasoline went back down below $1.00 a gallon and back 
> up more recently?
>
> Here in Fredericksburg it was in 1999/2000 era.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> On 7/3/2013 10:53 PM, J. R. Read wrote:
> > A very informal survey, and I probably won't even keep track.
> >
> > How many of you remember when the price of gasoline went above $1.00?
> >
> > Do you also recall that many stations (most?) had to price the fuel 
> > by
> the 1/2 gallon because their pumps could not show a price higher than 
> 99.9 cents?
> >
> > So, I guess that is really two questions.
> >
> > My answer is Y and Y.
> >
> > Final question....  What year was that?
> >
> > My answer..  Don't know.
> >
> > Later, JR
>
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