Driving Imps during the oil crisis

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

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
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> 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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