Topic: Petrol big shock on price

[Digeroo]

I went off with a gallon plastic can to get petrol for the mover.  It cost me £8.35.  I can still remember my mother complaining about paying £1 for four gallons to fill up the mini. 

[taurus]

Where did you buy that, thats £1.78per litre  :o rip off or what.
  Powder blue mini, petrol 7shilling and 6 pence a gallon.  I'm not telling which year  ;D

[Digeroo]

Actually slightly bigger than a gallon. 

We had one of the first batch of minis.  Pity my mother sold it would be worth a fortune now.

The front seats were more like deck chairs.  Did not have a key to start.

[lincsyokel2]

Theres a point in your life when you notice the price of petrol and the price of beer. When I was a lad it was about 18 years old.

So the first time I noticed the price of petrol it was 3/6d a gallon, and then a bit later i noticed beer was 24p a pint.

You would never have imagined then 40 years later you would be paying £6 10s for a gallon of petrol, and £3 for a pint of beer. I was only an apprentice earning £6 a week then.

[Digeroo]

When I was a student beer in the bar was 13p pint,  Working in the bar I got very good at my 13x table.

[manicscousers]

Ray always says he could fill up his first mini and 4 shots of redex for £1.00, before my time, obviously  ;D
just been to sainsburys, £1.30.9 per litre

[lincsyokel2]

I remember getting pissed one saturday night with three mates (4 pints of lager = £1 a round), then on our way home (years before breathalysers) somone said 'Lets go to Blackpool". So we all chipped in  5/- each for petrol and drove to Blackpool. I still remember lying on the sand dunes at Fleetwood, watching the sunrise over the B&B's, still pissed............

Thoses were the days.........