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I know what it felt like. I owned a 69 at the time. At times,
you could only get a certain number of gallons. At other times, they had odd
even plate number rules. If you frequented the same gas station, you sometimes
had no problems getting a full tank other then the price.
In those days, the classified adds were
full of late 60's & early 70's Chryslers & Imperials often under
$1000
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:56
PM
Subject: IML: Driving Imps during the oil
crisis
Paul, that's a good one. Many performance and luxury cars
lost a lot of value
during that period, and were abandoned or
crushed. I can only imagine how it
felt like struggling to refuel an
Imperial during the fuel crisis.
D^2
Quoting RandalPark@xxxxxxx:
> For
heavens sake, if I took every comment like that personally I would
have
> junked my cars 20+ years ago. I have lived through driving my
Imperials when
> I had to wait in line for five hours to get gasoline.
Others in line would
> make all sorts of derogatory remarks about my
"gas hog". At the time I was
> running my '65 Crown as an everyday car.
It was called names like Giant Pig,
> Beige Cow, Obselete Blob, and many
more that I can't type here. People were
> angry since they felt that I
was using more than my share of the dwindling
> fuel supply.
>
> Even today, young guys, who incidently are not always the
most intellegent
> when it comes to manners, make unflattering off hand
remarks. I go where I
> can get the parts and take the comments in
stride.
>
> Paul
>
>
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