<VV> Gas price survery - not what you think

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What is the lowest gasoline price you ever saw during the "Corvair Decade"?

Going back in time-------in May 1961 I was working my way through college
and the new owner of a '61 Corvair 700 Coupe. I had a week of vacation at
the end of the spring semester so my wife & I headed south from Charleston
WV to Florida on US Highway 21. This was old fashioned, pre-interstate
travel and went through long stretches of rural countryside.  Back home in
Charleston, regular gas cost about 32 cents. South of Columbia SC, a
gasoline price war was under way. My Vair, with its 84HP PG, was averaging
about 25mpg so it was hard to pass those "lowest gas price here" signs and
finally I did pull in and fill up at 15.9 cents per gallon. I didn't think
I would ever see it that low again since the gasoline taxes must have been
almost that high. I was wrong though; not more than 10 or 15 miles later a
station was selling it for 12.9! That is by far the best gasoline price I
ever saw but with a full tank, I had to pass it up.

Keep in mind though, the new Corvair cost under $2400 and motel rooms on
Daytona beach were $5.00 per night in 1961.


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Frank DuVal <corvairduval at cox.net> wrote:

> How about when gasoline went back down below $1.00 a gallon and back up
> more recently?
>
> Here in Fredericksburg it was in 1999/2000 era.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> On 7/3/2013 10:53 PM, J. R. Read wrote:
> > A very informal survey, and I probably won't even keep track.
> >
> > How many of you remember when the price of gasoline went above $1.00?
> >
> > Do you also recall that many stations (most?) had to price the fuel by
> the 1/2 gallon because their pumps could not show a price higher than 99.9
> cents?
> >
> > So, I guess that is really two questions.
> >
> > My answer is Y and Y.
> >
> > Final question....  What year was that?
> >
> > My answer..  Don't know.
> >
> > Later, JR
>
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