Administrators Eric Posted August 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 18, 2019 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Eric said: My neighborhood has a plethora of gas station and convenience stores with no service. We have one service station that had the pumps and tanks removed so all they do is rebuild engines. Times they are a 'changing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DWARREN123 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 I worked at a ESSO station during the mid sixties. Made a $1 per hour. Summer the women would come in dressed in very little. Heaven for a 14 year old guy! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 The days of the woman driver being told the bad news about her car from the guy laying on the creeper. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Some of you guys are pretty quick! What a great group! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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M&P15T Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 On 8/15/2019 at 12:24 PM, Eric said: Hey Sammy.......fill the oil and check the gas for me, o.k.? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Long ago I had a car that would randomly blow all the oil out of the breather pipe. So I bought cheap "re-refined" oil by the gallon and kept it in the trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Tiger Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 On 8/15/2019 at 1:02 PM, janice6 said: Reminds me of the security video of the woman in the gas station adding oil to her car. She opened the hood and simply poured it all over the engine. This is probably visual evidence of just how tight the clearences are now in modern engines. You almost never see anyone adding oil to their car when filling with gas. Lower oil sales may also explain why oil back then was 20 cents a quart and now it's $5 a quart. The consumption of oil went down while the money made from selling oil went ut. My father's only comment to the gas station attendant was always, "Fill'er up and check the oil!". 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Eric said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 36 minutes ago, Eric said: Lots of detail here: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=176778 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 NJ, 1959... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: NJ, 1959... I went through a lot of gas from one just like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Dad was a chemical engineer for Gulf Oil from graduation to retirement. I've still got a box of the "Gulf Wax" bars around here somewhere. (i don't know what else they were used for, besides waxing the runners on your sled) I worked at the Pinehurst Gulf (Texas) for several years. I was kinda like the Goober. No pictures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Just now, Huaco Kid said: Dad was a chemical engineer for Gulf Oil from graduation to retirement. I've still got a box of the "Gulf Wax" bars around here somewhere. (i don't know what else they were used for, besides waxing the runners on your sled) I worked at the Pinehurst Gulf (Texas) for several years. I was kinda like the Goober. No pictures. I can't remember for sure whether it was Gulf or Phillips, but I got so much dishware for going through so much gas that my wife said, "NO MORE!". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 2, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 2, 2019 1 minute ago, Huaco Kid said: Dad was a chemical engineer for Gulf Oil from graduation to retirement. I've still got a box of the "Gulf Wax" bars around here somewhere. (i don't know what else they were used for, besides waxing the runners on your sled) I worked at the Pinehurst Gulf (Texas) for several years. I was kinda like the Goober. No pictures. Gulf Oil used to make a really kickass granular concrete cleaner. I haven’t seen any since my mid teens and I’ve never found another product as good. That stuff worked miracles on oil stains. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 The gas station got robbed one night. (there were only about 50 people in Pinehurst, so that kind of narrowed it down) They went straight for the "opening money" that was hidden in an empty oil can on the shelf. (that narrowed it down greatly) They busted the kid I worked with. His dad picked him up from jail a couple days later, and dropped him off at the Army recruitment center. I never saw him again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Just now, Huaco Kid said: The gas station got robbed one night. (there were only about 50 people in Pinehurst, so that kind of narrowed it down) They went straight for the "opening money" that was hidden in an empty oil can on the shelf. (that narrowed it down greatly) They busted the kid I worked with. His dad picked him up from jail a couple days later, and dropped him off at the Army recruitment center. I never saw him again. That was a common court choice in my town too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 We'd take a small bucket of kerosene and splash it around the lift bays and scrub the floor with pushbrooms. You probably can't do that any more. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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