Somewhere in the boxes - (packrat from way back) I have all of the receipts
for my trip from Illinois to California to British Columbia back to
California through
Alberta/Montana/Utah/Nevada and Back to Illinois over a 3-month period in
1966... ~8600 miles AND YES IT WAS IN A 1959 TR3...
When I find them I can make a submission for the VTR longest trip and also,
there was one place (I think in New Mexico, or Arizona - could have been
Texas, which would make sense) where there was a gas war going on between
two stations on either side of Rt66. I stopped at one to eat and get gas.
Ate at one and noticed that while I was eating, the other station dropped
his gas by 2 cents to 8.9 cents per gallon whereby I filled up the tank for
under a dollar.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Curry [mailto:spitlist@gte.net]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:44 AM
To: TexasTR4@aol.com
Cc: 105671.471@compuserve.com; ptegler@cablespeed.com;
triumphs@autox.team.net; frank@zk3.dec.com
Subject: Re: gas pricing
TexasTR4@aol.com wrote:
>
> Heck, when I was in high school, the local stations would pay us up to a
> dollar a gallon just to take it off theie hands. I drove enough back then
to
> pay my way through college.
>
> My grandfather thought this was way too easy as he always had to boil a
> dinosaur for his fuel.....
>
> RH...do I win?
Sorry, in order to win this one, your story must have some element of truth!
:)
Joe
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