Nostalgia.....what did petrol cost when you first bought it?

[jsg612]

Pretty sure it was around 80-90p per litre when I started.

Don't really take much notice of the cost anymore, I just fill it until it clicks. Whatever the cost, I need fuel and not prepared to drive 10miles to save 1p per litre elsewhere!

[i remember]

Few years ago i got in a 79p/L fill. Bad to say i could have got nearly twice as many miles out of the same fill up now!

[Fossilface]

I remember when petrol hit 40p a litre and everyone was in uproar about it.
Something had occurred and and put the price up but there were assurances that it would come down again. Yeah, righto.

I also remember when I was in the USA in 2001 that petrol was around 50 pence a gallon. I was stunned.

[CB1000Rider]

I had my first car, a Ford Anglia, and it cost £2 for a tankful. 30p per gallon which is about 7p a litre. They sold 2*, 3*, 4* and rarely 5*. People used to put a shot of Redex for each gallon in the tank. Diesel cars were almost unheard of.

My previous car was a Monaro which cost me £30 per hour in petrol

[ianash]

mikial said:

First car was Austin Healy Sprite.....first transport was Lambreta 200 Gt scooter, petrol was 5-6 bob a gallon .................... 25-30 pence.

Edited by mikial on Saturday 12th March 17:38

My fisrt transport was also a Lambretta 200 and I used to cadge a lift to work in a Sprite - dreadful car with windows you push horizontally to open/close.

[Tsippy]

Think it was about 68p per litre in 2000, those were the days when a minimum wage job could be commuted to

[MGZRod]

about £1.20
And £2k insurance


Yep, i'm young, it's st.

[E31Shrew]

32p a gallon in'76

[carl_w]

I spent 5 years doing 30k/year and I remember that petrol was 60.9p/litre at the start of that. But the interesting thing is that prior to that I just don't remember. Petrol was cheap enough that you didn't really notice it costing much as it didn't form a significant part of your outgoings. I definitely recall putting a fiver's worth in the car, now it isn't worth putting less than £40 in at a time.

[paranha]

You wus ALL robbed!!!!9p a gallon or 1 shilling and 9 pence.1959!!!!!!!!!!! in the Trumph bike.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Around £1 per gallon.

[sparks_E39]

About 85-90p a litre in March 2005. In 2008 it cost £60 to fill my E39 up, now it cost nearly £80 bds.

[DannyVTS]

I think it was 120p a litre tbh - I got my scooter on the road in summer 2008

[HA51EMT]

About 40p/litre ~ £1.80/gallon.
Early 1985.

[Cemesis]

62.9 in late 1997

So for me it's doubled in 14 years

[lance1a]

I rode my Honda XR200R from Vryheid to Durban (about 280 KMS) on R9.50 petrol (about 90p) in the early eighties. Petrol was R0.40c per litre IIRC, that's 4p.

[redtwin]

0.99 cents per US gallon when I had my Trans Am which was a good thing as I could get through a full tank (don't remember the size) in one night having only covered about 50 miles. Burnouts and impromptu drag races tend to kill fuel economy.

[dcb]

paranha said:

You wus ALL robbed!!!!9p a gallon or 1 shilling and 9 pence.1959!!!!!!!!!!! in the Trumph bike.

I can remember four bob a gallon.

Given that the old money stopped about 1970,
I'd estimate sometime in the late 1960s.

In new money, that's about four pence ha'penny
a litre for full fat leaded petrol.

£1.32 a litre for unleaded at my local Tescos
these days.

[Qcarchoo]

£1.28 per gallon. 50 pence worth would last me all week on my Honda SS50.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Qcarchoo said:

£1.28 per gallon. 50 pence worth would last me all week on my Honda SS50.

50p of petrol lasted a week?

For arguments sake say you got 100mpg, are you saying you only did just over 50 miles per week?