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Summer of 1972 on Van Nuys Blvd

Started by Homerr, November 19, 2016, 11:40:49 AM

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Charger_Fan

Those are great photos! It's cool that most of them appear to have been taken rather candidly. And gas...32 cents per gallon! :2thumbs: I didn't see the photo you posted here in that link, does that mean there are more elsewhere?

The Aquamax...yes, this bike spent 2 nights underwater one weekend. (Not my doing), but it gained the name, and has since become pseudo-famous. :)

TruckDriver

Very cool! Love the gas prices  :lol: I bet a few of those cars ages better then a lot of the women in the photos too.  :lol:
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Homerr

Linked from reddit, that's all the photes there were.


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  and 71 GA4  383 magnum  SE

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Other than the super cheap gas, the scene is still very much the same one night a month on VN.
"I spent most of my money on cars, birds, and booze. The rest I squandered." - George Best

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Dans 68

Sigh....

The right most of the three girls photo looks like my ex-wife. But she would have been 14 at the time.   :scratchchin:  Lived not too far away (San Marino). Good memories, with the warm nights, bare feet, shorts, tans and long hair. Sigh....

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feeeighteefee

like a trip back in time.......gas in vancouver now is like 1.28 a litre..just a litre thats smaller than a quart

odcics2


Perspective.  In 1972 I was making $1.15 an hour and gas was 25 cents a gallon.  5 bucks would fill up my '68 Charger!

Gas was EXPENSIVE to me.

4.34 hours of work to fill the tank!   

Before I retired, I could fill my 20 gallon tank with a little more than ONE hour of work.   

Gas is cheaper now than it ever was, if you look at it my way!!   :2thumbs:
I've never owned anything but a MoPar. Can you say that?

RECHRGD

Quote from: odcics2 on December 03, 2016, 09:00:28 AM

Perspective.  In 1972 I was making $1.15 an hour and gas was 25 cents a gallon.  5 bucks would fill up my '68 Charger!

Gas was EXPENSIVE to me.

4.34 hours of work to fill the tank!   

Before I retired, I could fill my 20 gallon tank with a little more than ONE hour of work.   

Gas is cheaper now than it ever was, if you look at it my way!!   :2thumbs:

Apples and oranges.  You were making minimum wage in '72 and much more than the current minimum wage when you retired.
13.53 @ 105.32

odcics2

Quote from: RECHRGD on December 04, 2016, 01:37:24 PM
Quote from: odcics2 on December 03, 2016, 09:00:28 AM

Perspective.  In 1972 I was making $1.15 an hour and gas was 25 cents a gallon.  5 bucks would fill up my '68 Charger!

Gas was EXPENSIVE to me.

4.34 hours of work to fill the tank!   

Before I retired, I could fill my 20 gallon tank with a little more than ONE hour of work.   

Gas is cheaper now than it ever was, if you look at it my way!!   :2thumbs:

Apples and oranges.  You were making minimum wage in '72 and much more than the current minimum wage when you retired.

Actually, I was making less than minimum wage.
Here is some info:   https://splicer.com/2013/12/10/chart-minimum-wage-cost-living-adjusted-dollars

Like I said, gas was EXPENSIVE to me!! 
I've never owned anything but a MoPar. Can you say that?

RECHRGD

Quote from: odcics2 on December 04, 2016, 02:25:26 PM
Quote from: RECHRGD on December 04, 2016, 01:37:24 PM
Quote from: odcics2 on December 03, 2016, 09:00:28 AM

Perspective.  In 1972 I was making $1.15 an hour and gas was 25 cents a gallon.  5 bucks would fill up my '68 Charger!

Gas was EXPENSIVE to me.

4.34 hours of work to fill the tank!   

Before I retired, I could fill my 20 gallon tank with a little more than ONE hour of work.   

Gas is cheaper now than it ever was, if you look at it my way!!   :2thumbs:

Apples and oranges.  You were making minimum wage in '72 and much more than the current minimum wage when you retired.

Actually, I was making less than minimum wage.
Here is some info:   https://splicer.com/2013/12/10/chart-minimum-wage-cost-living-adjusted-dollars

Like I said, gas was EXPENSIVE to me!! 


Yeah, it was to me also.  In '68 I worked at a Standard Station in Sunland Ca..  The custom supreme that my new R/T loved was $.36 a gallon.  Going by your link, today's minimum hourly wage would by you about two or three gallons of gas.  If the minimum wage was $1.50 in 1968 it might get you four or five.....
13.53 @ 105.32

Mike DC

  
The problem is not the price of gas, it's the rate we use it.  

$2-3/gallon is cheap for almost any substance today.  Milk.  Orange juice.  Paint.  Etc.  

RECHRGD

Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on December 05, 2016, 04:33:15 PM
   
The problem is not the price of gas, it's the rate we use it. 

$2-3/gallon is cheap for almost any substance today.  Milk.  Orange juice.  Paint.  Etc.   

BBQ'd a couple of big fat prime ribeyes the other night.  Those two steaks ran me about $50.00!  But, damn they were good.......
13.53 @ 105.32

68X426


The girls were way less expensive back then as well.  :yesnod:




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Hell.. mine gave me the $20 bucks so I could put that nice red premium in my car!  :2thumbs:
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Quote from: Mytur Binsdirti on December 06, 2016, 05:07:13 PM
I wonder how many spiders and bees live in her hair? (scroll to the right)

Peggy Bundy!   :icon_smile_big:

Charger_Fan

Look what I found!  :icon_smile_big:





I found the guy's website who took all those pics HERE

How about the asking price for this '69 Z28? :o


THIS is a cool story he wrote about taking the photos.

The Aquamax...yes, this bike spent 2 nights underwater one weekend. (Not my doing), but it gained the name, and has since become pseudo-famous. :)

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