Cheapest Gas You Can Remember

[dboat]

Since the thread on gas prices has gone this long. I thought I would try to get a quick one going on the lowest gas price you can honestly remember seeing. Someone had posted on how it may not be long before we remember the good ole days of $3 per gallon gasoline..

I can recall when I was a kid that I saw 19.9 (cents) per gallon at the local Shamrock gas station. This does not include those times that the competing gas stations would have gas wars and drop the price down to the occasional 15.9 (cents) per gallon.

Dana

Man am I dating myself with this post.. btw, these prices were in Houston where I grew up

[Flats Man]

I remember around 17 cents a gallon! Those were the days! Even at those prices, we would collect money from the guys riding with us and cruising Saturday night! lol

[Nuhklz]

In 1973 I had a Fiat Spyder that I could fill up for less than $2.

[StormShadow]

I'm thinking that gas was around 70-80 cents a gallon when I started noticing how much it cost.

[Ivanhoe_Farms]

I remember around 17 cents a gallon! Those were the days! Even at those prices, we would collect money from the guys riding with us and cruising Saturday night! lol

Flatsman,

Remember Norman, Oklahoma when they had the gas wars, that little station on the main drag --- 14.9 and a quart of oil was 34 cents.:cool:

1931 Blue Model A Coupe :beer:

[Lyfisin]

I think it was around a quarter for me. Early to mid 70s in Indiana.

[Moonshine]

I can remember 19.9 per gallon, and with a fill up you got a free glass tumbler from Shell. We had an entire set of those glasses.

[tliss]

I was kinda thinking along these lines recently. I moved to the Dallas area around 9 years ago and I remember filling up at around 95 cents a gallon. Cost me less than $20 to fill up my Ranger, and I was pissed when it got above $1! When I started paying attention to it I would guess it was around 60-80 cents a gallon. How times have changed! I wish I was in kindergarten again where I could eat glue and pee on the school walls and not give a sh!t about gas prices.

Tom

[Tatom Mack]

oh ya do you ever recall it being this cheap?

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=AP&Date=20050818&ID=5048204

[wesman]

I first started noticing around .75 to .80 cent. I recall first buying around .90 or so.

The good ole days......sigh....:crying:

--wes

[Wht95Lightning]

I remember the first time I put gas in my very own car and it was .55 a gallon. I just had to do two transactions at the gas station today to fill my truck because the pump stops at $50. :crying:

[Tex Arcana]

I remember seeing 25 cents a gallon, in the early 60's, at the local Sinclaire station (yeah, the one with the dinosaur) and the local Esso. :eek2:

[REXRENEGADE]

27 cents at an "ENCO" station around 1970 !

Put a tiger in your tank
:D

[Avalanche]

The earliest I can remeber gas price is .25 a gallon and then it went to.30 a gallon and my parents wer compalining becuase it was to expensive then. :hammer:

[TP Derrick D]

My memory is from the early 70's also Sinclair ,Union 76....
Dayumm...how many of you old fockers are over 40 like me? (45)
We need to have a 40 + Ford Fellars get-together @ FFW-Ennis & Lfest. Just no Geritol,Ben-Gay or Fathers John.. Viagra welcome :rll:

[dboat]

I could eat glue and pee on the school walls Tom

Tom, you can still go this... :evil

but reading that link, 5 cents a gallon was not in our history.. at least not mine..
Dana

[WA 2 FST]

39.9c is the cheapest I remember as a young kid (mid-70s).

When I started driving in '83 it was 60-65c, and I remember everyone complaining then.

Our days of seeing $2.00/gal are gone for good. :(

[Mark #2]

5 cents for a soda bottle times 5 got me a gallon for the go cart.:D

[my2002lightning]

Started driving in '86 in rural S. Central OK. I don't recall exact gas prices off-hand, but it must have been along these mid-80 adjusted prices.

Fred/Milton, I assume the old-school OU drag was Lindsey?

Good times at OU.:)

[LS1 Eater]

I remember 70 cents. When I started to drive. But remember 58 when I was a kid getting gass for my dirt bike.