Driving Imps during the oil crisis
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Driving Imps during the oil crisis



I know what it felt like. I owned a 69 at the time. At times, you could only get a certain number of gallons. At other times, they had odd even plate number rules. If you frequented the same gas station, you sometimes had no problems getting a full tank other then the price.
    In those days, the classified adds were full of late 60's & early 70's Chryslers & Imperials often under $1000
John
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Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: IML: Driving Imps during the oil crisis

Paul, that's a good one.  Many performance and luxury cars lost a lot of value
during that period, and were abandoned or crushed.  I can only imagine how it
felt like struggling to refuel an Imperial during the fuel crisis.

D^2

Quoting RandalPark@xxxxxxx:

> For heavens sake, if I took every comment like that personally I would have
> junked my cars 20+ years ago. I have lived through driving my Imperials when
> I had to wait in line for five hours to get gasoline. Others in line would
> make all sorts of derogatory remarks about my "gas hog". At the time I was
> running my '65 Crown as an everyday car. It was called names like Giant Pig,
> Beige Cow, Obselete Blob, and many more that I can't type here. People were
> angry since they felt that I was using more than my share of the dwindling
> fuel supply. 
>
> Even today, young guys, who incidently are not always the most intellegent
> when it comes to manners, make unflattering off hand remarks. I go where I
> can get the parts and take the comments in stride.
>
> Paul
>
>


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