Servo Stories!! Whos got one?

[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..