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

[Papa Hotel]

1998, average UK price was 65 pence / litre. However, I had the good fortune to live in NI, right beside the border... between all the laundered/stolen fuel I usually paid about 30p/l. Quite galling to pay more than 4 times as much nowadays.

[AndyT77]

I'm pretty certain it was around 55.9p a litre when i first started driving.

[Lucas North]

About 70p/litre I think.

Between yesterday and today the pumps went up 2p/litre. Friggin ridiculous.

[MadeInEngland]

1st car I had was a Ford Anglia and petrol was 25p gallon. Even that seemed a lot at the time. Remeber going to work on a Lambretta LD125 and buying 2/6d worth + a shot of 2 stroke. It lasted ages.
Last week I filled up and it cost £100

[PoleDriver]

MadeInEngland said:

1st car I had was a Ford Anglia and petrol was 25p gallon. Even that seemed a lot at the time. Remeber going to work on a Lambretta LD125 and buying 2/6d worth + a shot of 2 stroke. It lasted ages.
Last week I filled up and it cost £100

Was that for the Anglia or the lambretta?

[Chris Chilton]

I remember going to London from Newcastle with my Dad in 1986, and him driving around for ages looking for cheaper fuel because he refused to pay £1.90 per gallon (41.7p per litre) to fill up.

[Chris Chilton]

I remember going to London from Newcastle with my Dad in 1986, and him driving around for ages looking for cheaper fuel because he refused to pay £1.90 per gallon (41.7p per litre) to fill up.

[Jasper Gilder]

35p a Gallon in my Ford Banglebox ( Anglia)

[Emeye]

How the hell do you people remember this st!? I can't even remember the year I passed my test!

[ClaphamGT3]

I remember in 1988 being able to fill my VW Polo up for £8.

I remember my mother be-moaning the fact sometime in the late seventies that £10 didnt fill her Volvo estate up.

[PoleDriver]

Emeye said:

How the hell do you people remember this st!? I can't even remember the year I passed my test!

Senility hasn't hit us yet!

[k-ink]

I half filled the tank on my fiesta and thought "I could have bought a CD for that price!". Fast forward to today and I could have bought a small shelf of them. I suspect in a couple more years it will be the same cost as a decent CD player.

[Stefan SRT8]

I worked in a petrol station in the late 80's just when I passed my test, 4 star was £1.75 a gallon (about 38p per litre) and diesel was £1.64. Diesel cars weren't very common back in those days.

Stef

[thinfourth2]

I've never bought petrol

I buy tax with a little bit of fuel added in

[fareaster]

[quote=AdvanceRoadcraft]Half-a-crown a gallon! (1962)
(NB Your dad/grandad can explain the coinage and Imperial measurements.)

Don´t think so, I started a part time job in a petrol staion about then , was about 4s 11d/gallon, more like a crown. Not just relying on my memory -
http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petrol...
Note the numbers are d´s not p´s

[jake15919]

47p a litre and I was stunned when it went up to a mind blowing 50p.

[Expatloon]

I well remember the '3 gallons for a quid' 2 stroke I used to put in my first bike, a Francis Barnet 150 !

[AdvanceRoadcraft]

fareaster]dvanceRoadcraft said:

Half-a-crown a gallon! (1962)
(NB Your dad/grandad can explain the coinage and Imperial measurements.)

Don´t think so, I started a part time job in a petrol staion about then , was about 4s 11d/gallon, more like a crown. Not just relying on my memory -
http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petrol...
Note the numbers are d´s not p´s

DAMN...you are right/I was wrong!
It cost me £2 to fill the old man's car; nearly 5bob to fill the Quickly.

As soon as I read your correction a big light bulb went off in my head as I remembered handing over two notes for the fuel.

Mea culpa and best, B

[Waugh-terfall]

About £1.11 in 2008

[Merp]

80p in 2006!
£30 to fill up the 1.1 1990 Polo every 2 weeks.

£150 a month now. Damn

Funny thing is, I've still never had as much fun as I did in that polo!