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Not sure what the gas crisis has to do with low HP. The low HP was due to emissions restrictions, low compression, retarded timing, lean mixtures, etc. and not having the computer technology and tuning capabilities found today.
[QUOTE=MelWff;1598141558]Not sure what the gas crisis has to do with low HP. The low HP was due to emissions restrictions, low compression, retarded timing, lean mixtures, etc. and not having the computer technology and tuning capabilities found today.[/QU
I was but a wee bit man, but I remember the oil crisis of the early 70's 73 to be exact. Yes the government implemented emission restrictions but I do believe the oil crisis of 73 sparked the mad hysteria of muscle cars and " gas guzzlers " I would tend to agree with the technology but they didn't have computers in 69 and they had some stacked ponies.
The 1973 gas crisis was the death of the muscle car era, BB cars could be had for a few hundred dollars. The Pinto, Vega, Datsun Etc. were the new go to cars for daily transportation. My first muscle car was a 1969 Buick GS Convertible, 400 Ram Air, 4-Sp, power everything. I bought this car in 1973 with a rod knocking for $300, rebuilt the engine and had lots of fun driving this car for the next 3 years. Looking back I still shake my head, I bought a 4 year old car for $300...
What was my next car after that? A F'ing Pinto. HA
I grew up in Alabama, in 73 no one had insurance. My first car insurance policy was in 1976 on my 69 Chevy C-10 so I could get a base decal. The deal back than was to get insurance, get base decal than cancel insurance.
Lived on the edge back than living payday to payday and drinking cheap Gallo wine. HAHA Beer was .50 can out of the barracks vending machine, gas was around .58, smokes were .50 pack or $2.00 carton when underway at sea.
The 1973 gas crisis was the death of the muscle car era, BB cars could be had for a few hundred dollars. The Pinto, Vega, Datsun Etc. were the new go to cars for daily transportation. My first muscle car was a 1969 Buick GS Convertible, 400 Ram Air, 4-Sp, power everything. I bought this car in 1973 with a rod knocking for $300, rebuilt the engine and had lots of fun driving this car for the next 3 years. Looking back I still shake my head, I bought a 4 year old car for $300...
What was my next car after that? A F'ing Pinto. HA
Youyou shake your head thinking about how you bought a four-year-old GS400 for 300 bucks. You want to really shake your head? Think about how little you sold it for and what it would be worth now.
I was lucky I was a pump jockey at a station that ALSO ran 4 tanker trucks.
The drivers all scammed the tanks and taught me how to get the gas they left in the lines.
(These are the 6" (?) solid lines under each tanker.)
AFTER they got theirs, of course. A time or 2 all the lines were empty, so too bad.
Mostly, I'd hit paydirt, into a 5-gallon bucket. Then a funnel into my car, or a lid to take home.
It got to the point I only took the nice strawberry pink/red HI test for me an friends.
Those pipes hold a fair amount.
My brother got that yellowish Non-Leaded. And I forget what regular looked like - hardly took it.
I had a 55 gallon drum of No-lead at my house, maybe 30 feet from the garage AND the home, on railroad timbers.. I was 18. My parents were oblivious.
I could have blown the place up.
But they got a fair amount of free gas. [ I look back and shake my head ]
I really think this must have been a regional problem. I remember seeing the news of the day. I was a driver, I owned a souped up Camaro, I drove a lot, and I bought gas wherever, whenever I felt, with no lines, no limits. Must have been the fake news of the era.
I really think this must have been a regional problem. I remember seeing the news of the day. I was a driver, I owned a souped up Camaro, I drove a lot, and I bought gas wherever, whenever I felt, with no lines, no limits. Must have been the fake news of the era.
^^^THIS^^^
I lived in Utah at the time and we never had long lines, but I did visit my relative's in Phoenix and they had long lines.
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