Ray Bell - 2017-01-29 5:37 PM The pics keep coming, and they're great! But fellas, could we please have them so they're visible on the page? Other gripes... scans which aren't cropped in on the actual picture, so they don't show a mass of white scanner background, and please, please, get Irfanview (a free download) so you can work on the images a bit so those which are not good and visible can be seen?
Like I've done with this one:

56D500boy - 2017-01-30 4:02 AM
I use Irfanview all the time to get *MY* personal photos down to 250 kB. However, when I find things on the internet with links to the photos,
I don't process them, I just link them to this thread.

Sonoramic60 - 2017-02-08 7:42 AM

Lads --
For all you from the post-FLK days, "Ethyl" was the term for the higher octane pump gas which had an ethyl alcohol additive as the booster. Normally during those years "Regular" sold for about $0.25 a gallon (or thereabouts) and Ethyl for four or five cents more. From the looks of the posted prices and the waiting cars, it looks like that photo was taken during what was then called a "gas war" in which the major companies (or "majors," such as Texaco, Standard, Conoco, etc.) tried to curb the markets of the "minors" (in Colorado there were Frontier, Mars, Black Mule, etc.) who sold their products (often scrounged from surplus production of the majors) at a reduced rate, generally about two cents less a gallon. During one such war in the spring of 1960, the gas I pumped at my dad's Frontier station went at $0.149 (that's FOURTEEN POINT NINE CENTS!!!!!) a gallon. Sometimes these wars were started by individual stations (almost all of which were privately owned then), but most often when the majors thought a minor was getting too big for his shoes.
Of course, those were also the times when you usually pulled into a station and asked for "a dollar's worth of regular." But there were also a couple of instances when there were five of us in a car and it took all five of us to come up with that buck.
Joe Godec

imopar380 - 2017-02-08 12:52 PM

Hi Joe, I thought that "ETHYL" was a nickname for TetraEthyl Lead additive in the fuel, not Ethyl Alcohol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

Sonoramic60 - 2017-02-08 10:42 AM

Lads --
For all you from the post-FLK days, "Ethyl" was the term for the higher octane pump gas which had an ethyl alcohol additive as the booster. Normally during those years "Regular" sold for about $0.25 a gallon (or thereabouts) and Ethyl for four or five cents more. From the looks of the posted prices and the waiting cars, it looks like that photo was taken during what was then called a "gas war" in which the major companies (or "majors," such as Texaco, Standard, Conoco, etc.) tried to curb the markets of the "minors" (in Colorado there were Frontier, Mars, Black Mule, etc.) who sold their products (often scrounged from surplus production of the majors) at a reduced rate, generally about two cents less a gallon. During one such war in the spring of 1960, the gas I pumped at my dad's Frontier station went at $0.149 (that's FOURTEEN POINT NINE CENTS!!!!!) a gallon. Sometimes these wars were started by individual stations (almost all of which were privately owned then), but most often when the majors thought a minor was getting too big for his shoes.
Of course, those were also the times when you usually pulled into a station and asked for "a dollar's worth of regular." But there were also a couple of instances when there were five of us in a car and it took all five of us to come up with that buck.



Joe Godec

58 DESOTOS RULE - 2017-02-09 2:02 PM

I recognize a still from "The Misfits" (1960) when I see one. The last movie that Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe ever made. Clark Gable died of a heart attack after the Misfits wrapped up shooting and Marilyn commited suicide while working on a new project.The car is (or was) a 1957-58 Chrysler station Wagon.

58coronet - 2017-02-09 3:31 PM



Do any of you older guys remember how the ethyl gas back in the day would turn the inside of the tailpipes snow white in a good, strong clean running engine? Then when the driver put his foot into the carb that white powder would blow out in a cloud of lead dust? Good times they were!

imopar380 - 2017-02-10 8:05 PM



Absolutely remember that, after a good long drive on the highway my tailpipes would be white inside, and I couldn't even rub any black soot from them on my fingertip after a run like that. They burnt clean.