One great classic car..........

Molalla1 · Jan 14, 2020

goeduck said:
^^^ Where I was at it was not much worse than today on a holiday at a busy intersection off the freeway. Maybe 3 or 4 cars deep. I always knew the gas shortage was a gimmick to get higher prices. The earth was running out of oil in the 70s. Yeah, right.

Well Duck they ran out for several months back then . . . :laughing:

jmc · Jan 14, 2020

I got caught during the 1979 gas shortage on a cross country motorcycle trip. (Western USA, 4 gallon tank) In cities, stations closed about 4PM. Way out in the sticks, thankfully it was business as usual. We tried to stay on secondary roads, and back then, it was just paper maps. We found out pretty quick that just because there is a town mapped in eastern Oregon, for example, doesn't mean it has a gas station- or anything else. One "town" was just a 90 degree jog in the unmarked road and a corral. But at least if you found a gas station in time, it was open.

dieselcrawler · Jan 14, 2020

ovrszd said:
I missed all that chaos solely because of where I live. I've never been denied gasoline. I've never sat in line to buy gasoline. I've never, one single time in my life, waited to access a gas pump. I love my little piece of paradise. I'm so glad all the other people don't want to live here.

I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

goeduck · Jan 14, 2020

dieselcrawler said:
I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

There is lots of opportunity in Missouri as big as it is

ultrarunner · Jan 15, 2020

ovrszd said:
I missed all that chaos solely because of where I live. I've never been denied gasoline. I've never sat in line to buy gasoline. I've never, one single time in my life, waited to access a gas pump. I love my little piece of paradise. I'm so glad all the other people don't want to live here.

Yep... peek oil, coming ice age, famine and gas lines 30 cars + deep were the norm.

People would track with CB radios tanker trucks leaving the Richmond/Martinez refineries... gas doubled to 70 cents a gallon the and most sought after car accessory was the little anti syphon spring or locking gas cap...

A lot of people where having fuel syphoned... and a black market for 5 gallon cans of gas flourished...

My old car group had planned a wine country weekend with reservations made almost a year in advance... the club called to cancel citing fuel uncertainty yet the weekend was less than 300 miles... the hotel had a brother in law with the only station in town who agreed to fuel the Model A's provided it was done early AM Sunday morning in the dark... see, buying fuel became a clandestine pursuit... for me, I drove everything on a Honda 175 and a gallon of gas a week had me covered... unlike one of my teachers with her 1970 Olds 455 98 series...

It was also a time of natural gas conversions... a guy my Dad knew converted his 1968 pick-up to natural gas and filled it from his home with a special compressor hooked up to his home natural gas meter... the idea of never having to go to a station to fill up was almost unbelievable... just like plug in electric was the stuff of science fiction or home solar...

ultrarunner · Jan 15, 2020

dieselcrawler said:
I wouldn't mind living there, as you describe it, it really does sound like paradise... I think you'd be a good neighbor to have... a respectful distance away, mile or 3, of course! I think we both like our space, but know the value of good neighbors!

Back on topic, I've never been a big mustang fan, but let a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme convertible go years ago... miss that car.

Always had a soft spot for Cutlass Supreme... and 70-72 vintage... and I still do including the Vista Cruiser... friends folks had a 72 Vista Cruiser with a 455...

One of Dad's Navy friends was deployed and his wife was tired of driving a pinto... she hated it and her parents were coming to California for a visit... I'm guessing 1985... She asked me to find her a car...

Just happened that one of my friends said his grandmother stopped driving and had a nice 69 Olds 4 door cutlass they didn't need... I picked up the commander's wife and she bought the Olds for $1000

Commander didn't take kindly to that for a long time... but over the years he said it proved to be a very good car... they had for 10 years and sold it for $1000 and it was always the car of choice when company visited... I mean 1968 El Camino or 1974 Pinto or 1969 4 door Olds Cutlass with a 350???

Gem99ultra · Jan 15, 2020

My oh my... how many of us have had and sold what is now deemed 'classic' cars. Back in the day, they were simply USED cars. If we had only kept them.

I recall having bought in 1960 a 1955 Chevrolet Belaire convertible. Red & white, naturally. V8, fender skirts, continental kit, big hubcaps and whitewall tires. Bought it for much less than a grand, and got rid of it because it rattled. Ha! yep - the Good Ole' Days.

dodge man · Jan 15, 2020

I was in the hobby, mostly Mopars in the mid 1980's to the late 1990's. I passed on cars, most of them in the late 80's and early 90's that were more money than I could afford at the time. I once passed on a 1970 Cuda, 440 six pack, hemi orange in color, and I probably could have bought it for less than $500. It was really rough, needed everything, original engine gone, but even a rough shell is worth several thousand dollars today. I also passed on a 70 Lime Green Hemi Cuda. I can't remember the asking price, it seemed like a lot at the time, I think it was around 25k, but worth several times that today.