At the time I was just starting my career at the bank and was paid very little. I took a night job washing dishes in a restaurant to keep my '65 Imperial on the road. Paul In a message dated 12/27/2003 7:40:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, jsadowski@xxxxxxx writes: > 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 ----- > From: dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > > > > >