Servo Stories!! Whos got one?

[Absinth]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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:

[ozbox]

ya know..being a 58 model i should have some servo stories but for the life of me i cannot remember anything memorable to do with petrol prices........ i remember riding my pushy to get 2 stroke mower fuel or getting drums of kero from the pump for the heater..i also remember pinchin the coke bottles from out the back of the local servo and then taking them across to the local milkbar and cashing them in for smokes...5 packs of viscount or rothmans..