Petrol being, as in pence per litre I'm 18 and I can remember back when it used to be 57p a litre, but i'm just a yung un

 

I can recall it being around the 50p mark, i think i must have just passed my test at the time - back in 1993.

Theres plenty of old timers on here who will remember it being rationed

 

I can't remember the price per litre but my old man used to fill up his XR3 and have change from a tenner!!

 

LOL, I'm so old I can remember it being priced per gallon

 

and what price was it?

PMSL@ Billy , rationing petrol ( I know it did happen)

 

I can just about remember 2 star fuel direct from the pump, but i was about 10ish then.

 

I remember it being aorund 57p in the early 90's

 

Remember back in 1976 it went up to 50P a gallom (4.5 ltrs for you young uns) and my old man said when it reached Ł1 a gallon he would sell his car,well he know has 2 cars......lol

cheeRS stu

 

I remember that time too Stu.

Big uproar when it reached 50p per gallon.

My old fella used to go up the road, get to a set of lights where there were two stations, one straight over & one by turning left. These stations would always compete on price so he would decide at the last minute which one to go to

There was "talk" of it reaching a whole Ł1 per gallon

 

MMMMMM SOME OF USE SHOWING OUR AGES REMEMBER MK3 CORTINA BEING LAUNCHES,AND WHAT AN UPROAR FROM MOTORING PRESS WHEN THE MK1 SIERRA APPEARED,SAID IT WOULD NOT BE THE SUCSESS (SP) THE CORTINA WAS,HOW WRONG THEY WERE


CHEErs STU

 

When I first started driving it was Ł10 to fill up a 957 cc fiesta

If you ask Nath tho, he can remember when it was a case of filling up your horse with hay

 

It was about 59.9 when I started driving and it never used to cost me more than Ł22 to fill the tank now I take the RS and it's often not far off Ł40

I might report Phoney Tony to the police for extortion

 

@ all you old bas%%*&

50p a gallon, dreaming

 

when i started driving, 4* was 38.7p per litre. those were the days!

 

Paddy, it wasnt hay I was feeding it

I can remember 2, 3 & 4 star but the only prices I can remember was about 50p a litre. You could alos buy paraffin from them as well

Its a piss take to think were not far of Ł5 per gallon and hardly feck all has gone back into roads, etc

 

dont worry mate. Mike is so old he remembers paying to put petrol in his car, which he bought with a bag of gold coins, with horses and cattle etc. used to cost him a small bag of silver and a goat to fill her up

prior to that he just had to let his horses feed on grass and the occasional carrot to pull his cart along


I have never looked at the price of petrol personally

 

29 cents per GALLON

obviously this was about 30 years ago

 

EscortWRC,

How much is a litre of unleaded and super over there?

 

1.65 a gallon, then it changed to the litre, and was 42p.

 

I think it used to cost me 30quid for a full tank of Super on my Reno5Turbo when i first passed my test- 1998, but dont remember how big the tank was so dunno what it cost

I remember 5star petrol when i was little. 100+ Octane wasnt it?

Dont remember 2star tho, what octane was that?

 

it was in the 70 something p per litre when i started driving.

now if i get it cheaper than 90p i'm happy

 

Right now, regular gas is about $2.00/gallon. Since there are 3.8 liters in a gallon, that makes it about $0.53/liter

With the exchange rate of $1.986/GBP, that would be.....

.2776 GBP/liter

I guess your taxes are WAY higher than ours and ours are outrageous

 

Your joking right? Someone needs to get head out of sand

You got Fuel soooooooo cheap over there, its not fair we should have it cheap over here as we produce our own oil

 

NO, I'm not joking

When the tax on the fuel is about the same amount as the fuel itself, something's seriously wrong.

You must be buying it from the wrong people or your government is giving it to you straight in the ass. My guess is that its the second one.

 

27p a litre!!!

BUSH for Priminister!

 

It was about half that 2 years ago......

 

no its the price you pay to live in such a great country

 

Yea but..

I think our breakdown is.

3% garage
10% Petrol Company
87% Goverment!

 

If you don't like it, don't move here....simple

 

Sorry cant remember the fuel prices but do remember when crisps were 5p a packet and a 10 penny mix of sweets had a lot more than 10 sweets in it!! I remember the half pence as well! anybody still have any of them?

Never realised you were that old stu?

Nick

 

lol mate, me an you don'yt exactly share the same political views, I will consider moving to the states after I finish my degree, and/or if I am offered a job

But then again they might throw me in guantanimo bay, for no other legit reason that I'm not an "American Idiot"

 

There are idiots all over, don't sell yourself short

 

Sorry I must be tired, or maybe just stupid, but I didn't quite grab the meaning of that

Can U settle a argument I was having with my mate, are American Ford escorts the same as european efforts

 

Not exactly.....

What you guys call a Series 2 (IIRC) is what we call an Escort GT. Ours are 1.6 and 1.8 liter mazda engines B6 and BP series NON-turbo engines, but the bodies look similar in silhouette. Ours are nothing amazing (ok, they're JUNK) and personally, I wouldn't own an RST either.

The 'standard' Escorts, are basically the same, all junk IMHO.

So basically, Escorts on this side of the pond are junk econoboxes

Probably best if we avoid the politics and religion subjects and stick to cars...

 

yes mate, I count myself as an Atheist "spelling".

Nowt wrong with escorts mate, nothing wrong with lower fuel consumption either

 

Wow, something we agree on.....I'm an athiest also

I'm not knocking them for other people, I just wouldn't own one myself

 

49.9p i think i remember

I am 29 now though

 

lol, bit like Marie Antoinette's let them eat cake

Just outta interest , whta car do you own?

 

2002 Dodge Durango (tow rig)
1993 Toyota 4x4 pickup (daily driver)
1989 Mazda 323GTX (rallycar)

 

and your a Aeronautical engineer

i was going to do take that, but didn't get the grades