Breathtaking shots! Thanks

The '69 factory sidepipes sounded pretty awesome too. That's why I put them on my '73. Plus I really like the look.

Sorry to say that those days when you could buy 400 gallons of gasoline for one dollar are long past. I used to tell Walmart when they had labels marked at fractions of a cent per pound that I would hold them to the marked price, I never did but it took months for Walmart to figure out what cent notation was. So watch those decimal points.

Ours cost 10,000. for not quite 1700sqft in 1958 build over part of the old house that burned up...we lived in a cinder block garage while the work was done.

So do I...

I earned 50cents a week for chores then got a paper route and sweeping/cleaning bingo beans Sat and Sunday Morns from 10 y to 14 years old...bought a 1953 ford 2 dr for $5.00 and paid for my own Guitar Lessons.

Lucky the place didn't blow up!

YEP!

Had one of those in Calif...traded it for a gremlin and that for a 78 Mercury Capri and promptly went home to CT.

Me Too!

And then the state injected itself into an ever-larger mixed economy........
In proportion to the average income, gas (IF LEFT ALONE) would still be a bargain even at Trump-era prices.

Good memories! Babysitting was cheap, too. I started babysitting at 35 cents an hour. I was also expected to wash any dishes that were in the sink.
I earned my spending money all through college with my babysitting business. I never made more than 50 cents an hour. Life was pretty good, and I’m glad for the memories.

These are great. Reminds me of the time I stopped and got fifty cents worth of gas! That was in a Fiat 850 Spider (850 was cc's - a smaller engine than a lot of motorcycles). I probably drove to school for three days on that!

Memories of a happy childhood
Movie 50 cents adult 25 cents child
Hamburger 19 cents, Fries 15 cents, Shake 30 cents
Mom teaching us before ever going to school and she didn't have to go to work because my dad was a man who took his responsibility seriously.
New home cost $12,000 for about 1500 sf. (no a/c)

I remember .25 cent per gallon gasoline. i lived in a refinery town. The tank storage farm was out back of our subdivision (my daddy was the GC on building the subdivision). Cross a tiny road was storage tanks. One 4th of July our neighbor, an engineer, was shooting off roman candles into the tank farm and my daddy asked him politely to point his roman candles in the opposite direction before he took his head off! He complied.

Had a few (sigh) wish I had them now :/

At 12 helped my Mom on weekends and days off of school at a cool diner turned into later a used car lot, then at 15 with a work permit, G C Murphy's out of HS turbo engine blue up took 2 part time and 1 full time 10-6 job to pay the debt. There are jobs out there now even with my preparing for retirement with this nut job in office took a part time position the youngins get first choice of jobs to do...why.....to keep them happy!!

The nostalgia of being a kid and driving in the 60's. Gas was .28 cents a gallon. For $5 I could put a $1 of gas in the car, go to a movie, eat a hamburger, fries and shake and change left over to buy candy bars for the week (5 cents). People came out to greet you at the gas pump and check over your car. What a treat.

I miss those days…

This just shows how much the government has devalued the IOU we call a dollar. For 4.60 you get the same exact amount of gas as you could get for 23 cents. That means the purchasing power of one dollar is 5 cents. However that is not a good measure. Production savings and all around cheaper transport etc,. would have reduced the price significantly. The dollar that was worth 100 cents then is now worth maybe 1 cent. Real estate that could be purchased for 5,000 dollars in the 50's now costs 500,000 or more. So you would need 100 dollars to buy what you could buy for 1 dollar in the '50s. That is how much the government stole from the people.

One of my neighbors works for a company that does part of that job. Some people cannot take the time to go and get the oil changed, new tires, etc. That company has a truck that will come to where your car is, at work or at home, and do all that stuff. Just pay money. But if you're a high-priced professional (doctor, lawyer, politician, mob boss) that's not a problem.

Another neighbor does tires for big rigs. That's a more common business. You lose a recapped drive tire or trailer tire while out on the road with your 18-wheeler, he shows up with a monstrous tire-changing vehicle, and with a bit of muscle and a lot of machine he gets you back on the road. What if you lost a steer tire instead of a drive tire? That's why you don't want recaps for steers.

There was plenty of summertime work picking fruit and pecans in the Santa Clara valley when I was a high schooler. Today you can't even find a tree in the whole valley since it's become "Silicon Valley."

Yep - remember those days well. Had a '69 Corvette T-Top. Gas mileage - what's that? Big fun. Nothing beats the sound of a wide open four barrel carburetor.

Love the old cars in the photo's

Nice, thanks.