Servo Stories!! Whos got one?

**Blocker** · 14-07-2010, 07:31 PM

Gaddy I remember when your only option was Super or Regular and it was 5c a litre.

There are earlier days for me, but I was only 5-7 years old and my grand dad owned a Neptune garage and workshop. I think I have some old 8mm film of it.

**stickthis** · 14-07-2010, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Blocker

Gaddy I remember when your only option was Super or Regular and it was 5c a litre.

There are earlier days for me, but I was only 5-7 years old and my grand dad owned a Neptune garage and workshop. I think I have some old 8mm film of it.

8mm film? whats that? gather it must have been "before my time" lol

**Robbo** · 14-07-2010, 07:48 PM

I remember paying 15c a litre in about 1975. I had my V8 ford back then.

**skid** · 14-07-2010, 08:01 PM

Back in the early 80's you could buy fuel with the 20c coin machines after hours.

or in 1985 we had a Shell station with a $2 note (green with white sheep) after hours machine.

in 1986 Unleaded came on board,and no one knew what to do about fuel for their mowers and not being able to buy standard

**Absinth** · 14-07-2010, 07:45 PM

I can remember pulling into a Golden Fleece with Dad and him telling the attendant to put 5 gallons in the tank..... after doing so the attendant then checked the oil, air in the tyres and washed the windscreen ...

**1BadVan** · 14-07-2010, 07:56 PM

I remember 33c a litre I started my apprenticeship and I used to struggle to run my 351. My mate 14yrs old also had an apprenticeship at the same time at a servo. One night while on roster pumping fuel (any one remember those) When he went to collect the money the blokes in the car decided to grab him by the throat and refuse to pay. Anyway his boss was obviously watching the whole thing going down grabs the pump nozzle sticks it thru the drivers window with a cigarette lighter at the end and asks the blokes in the car make a quick choice. Nedless to say they payed for there fuel.

**jennie285** · 14-07-2010, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by 1BadVan

I remember 33c a litre I started my apprenticeship and I used to struggle to run my 351. My mate 14yrs old also had an apprenticeship at the same time at a servo. One night while on roster pumping fuel (any one remember those) .

Yes we had those on the farm.....
and that is a great story....

**jennie285** · 14-07-2010, 08:04 PM

Rodney has lots of memories of fuel being cheaper 8c and 15c/litre and you would go to the pub with $1 and have enough for beer all night.

...he would go to from Parkes to Sydney in his Datto 120y and would fill up and it would cost $3.51.....

**Sinbin** · 14-07-2010, 08:41 PM

the first day i got mine i went to pick up fish and chips on the way home , when i come out of the fish and chip shop there was about 4 people going right over the car looking at everything at first i was thinking shit there going to steal it and they come up and asked me about 1000 questions , good times

**GTS** · 14-07-2010, 10:54 PM

In 1978 my mate and I bought a repossesed XB Ford van with what we called the Nullabor Door ( top and bottom tailgates not side by side doors). When we left on our adventure around Australia petrol was about 17c per litre. We tarted up the van with a new paint job and made a dual exhaust from a HQ V8 van....the XB was only a 6 cyliner but it sounded sweet. We bought a set of cheap mag wheels ($20.00) and a set of retreads ($80.00) and off we went.

The van ran out of rego the day before we left so we got the white stripe that folk used to stick on the top of the windscreen (some were black..remember them) and cut out a section just big enough to be able to see the month the car was registered to....but not the year.

We made it all the way around OZ without getting knocked off for unregistered....even after being pulled up by the cops on a few occasions.....thank god for no computers back then:lol::lol::lol:

We had to do the trip from Canberra to Adelaide, Perth, Darwin down to 3 ways across to Rockhampton (or was it Townsville), down to the Gold Coast through Sydney and back home in 4 weeks because thats all the annual leave we had. On average I think we did about 11 hours driving per day and had a ball.

When we were up past Broome we had to call in for fuel and the going rate was .34c per litre. I remember thinking to myself that there was no way in hell we'd ever pay that much for petrol back home....never! Geez, was I wrong.

When we arrived back home and crossed over the bridge down into the main drag of Queanbeyan we checked our cash and found we had $5.28 between us. That was on a Sunday afternoon and we had to back at work Monday morning.

One of the best holidays I ever had.

There's a whole lot more to the story and one day I might get around to telling it but that is the skinny on our 78 adventure. What a blast!:lol::lol::lol::lol: