The price of Inflation

[Jasper Gilder]

Got the SX out today for the summer. As usual, fuel on the pin so shot it down to the fuel station for £25.00 worth of Shell's finest Optimax.
Driving back the fuel gauge was reading 1/4. When I bought the car (new) in 1989 it would have read full.

The price of progress.....

[pwd95]

I remember when I had my first £20 tankfull. I remember thinking ste, this is getting expensive.

[restless*native]

Only just last week i paid £1.36 per litre for shell V power. £35 fill up did not give me half a tank.

[grahamw48]

I could turn this into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch....but

The first gallon of petrol I bought for my Triumph Tiger Sports Cub motorbike in 1968 cost five and tuppence (26p).

The first petrol I put in my new company Hillman Avenger in 1971 was on offer at £1.36 for 4 gallons.

The car (new) was £857, but my annual salary at 19 was only £750 + expenses.
Cars were a lot more expensive in those days.

The rent on my flat at that time was 3 guineas a week, and I dreamed of having a TVR parked outside it to pull the birds.

[Jasper Gilder]

Looks like you've got the TVR - now what about the birds?

[grahamw48]

Only old broilers on offer now.

Thank goodness for my misspent youth.

[MJG280]

Time for another oldie’s reminisce. How about 4/11d (almost 25p) a gallon. Insurance £8, Road Tax £6ish £25 for the car and what’s a TVR?

My only sporting credentials were that I was driving on slicks as tread depth wasn’t an MOT item or something that anyone bothered about. An 803cc 1955 Standard 8 didn’t have to worry about tyre grip or brake fade for that matter. Used to use a calendar to check the 0-60 time which is a bit like the last time I was out in the toy.

[Jasper Gilder]

Dad's Blue Car was a Standard 10 - by the time I slid behind the wheel of my 1964 Anglia we had road tax, MOT, fuel at 35p per gallon and I knew what a TVR was - just hadn't ever seen one