Summer of 1972 on Van Nuys Blvd

[Homerr]

Album with more pics.

[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! I didn't see the photo you posted here in that link, does that mean there are more elsewhere?

[TruckDriver]

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

[Homerr]

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

[Daytona R/T SE]

 

[polywideblock]

 

[DixieRestoParts]

Great pics, thanks for posting.   

[Ponch ®]

Other than the super cheap gas, the scene is still very much the same one night a month on VN.

[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.     Lived not too far away (San Marino). Good memories, with the warm nights, bare feet, shorts, tans and long hair. Sigh....

Dan

[Ponch ®]

Check out this instagram page of the current monthly VN Blvd cruises. The page leans heavily toward the lowrider crowd, but in reality at the cruises you see everything from street rods to mopar winged cars to exotics to 70s style custom vans.
https://www.instagram.com/vannuysblvdcruisenight/

[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!!   

[RECHRGD]

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!!   

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

[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!!   

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!! 

[RECHRGD]

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!!   

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.....

[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]

   
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.......

[68X426]

The girls were way less expensive back then as well. 

[birdsandbees]

Hell.. mine gave me the $20 bucks so I could put that nice red premium in my car! 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

I wonder how many spiders and bees live in her hair? (scroll to the right)

[Lennard]

I wonder how many spiders and bees live in her hair? (scroll to the right)

Peggy Bundy!   

[Charger_Fan]

Look what I found!  





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

How about the asking price for this '69 Z28?


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

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Look what I found!  


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And here are those same girls today....

[funknut]

CNN has this up on their site.  Some overlap with what's already been posted in this thread.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/autos/gallery/tbt-cruising-van-nuys-los-angeles/index.html

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Today, this is a ticketable offense....

[Ponch ®]

Today, this is a ticketable offense....

Looking like douchebags?

[Kern Dog]

Imagine the fine bush the girls were sporting in those Jordache jeans!

[Daytona R/T SE]

Imagine the fine bush the girls were sporting in those Jordache jeans!

Bushbelt 

[500Jon]

Hi Odcics and all.

Not sure what the dollar to pound rate was in 1972 but I was on £2 a day as an engineering apprentice!
By 1978 I was on £20 a day, but still couldn't afford my first Plymouth till 1985!

Why is that you are thinking, same problem as 1972, American car INSURANCE was way too high...
Now I can insure my $50,000 Charger for $200 now I'm 60!

I can afford to insure it but Gas is $10 a gallon in the UK...
If its not one problem, its another lol...

Bought my first Dodge truck in Van Nuys, from the Spring Fling 2004, she was a beauty 72 D200 stepside!

[Daytona R/T SE]

The movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3MOXwdkJp8


Caution, contains disco.

[alfaitalia]

Not wanting to be that bloke but.....Don't know where in the UK you live 500Jon but move!...lol. It's about £1.20 a litre today in Sussex so that's about £5.45 per gallon which is just under $7 per UK gallon (which is of course bigger than the US gallon) at today's exchange rate (31.1.2017)... So converting to the US gallon (83.3% of a UK one) would be about $5.83 to buy a US gallon of fuel at UK prices....still expensive compared to what the Yanks pay...but far from 10 bucks a gallon. I thank you and good night!

It was close to $10 per UK gallon a couple of years ago though...that's what caused those fuel depot blockades by truckers.