OPEC – Chuck the Blogger Guy

We need to stop making more cars.

The year of the embargo. The price per gallon went from 29-cents to 59-cents almost overnight. The year was 1973 and we were living in Hawaii. Our favorite place to fill up our 1963 Plymouth Valiant with regular gasoline was at the Penny automotive center just down the street and above Peral harbor. BackContinue reading “We need to stop making more cars.”

Fill it up and check my tire pressure.

Fill’er up Joe. It was a tall clear glass cylinder about two-feet tall and about 15-inches across with lined markings, Markings representing one gallon each mark. The heavy glass cylinder sat on a round red metal frame with a long handle parallel to the metal and glass tank. If you pump the handle a redContinue reading “Fill it up and check my tire pressure.”