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Well ran the Little Hauler ( name ) a total 0f 238.2 miles this last week and the fill up netted me 33.7 miles to the gallon . Most my driving i never get over 50 mph . Sure is a big difference from the F150 that is sitting beside the house killing grass and saving gas , Grass is cheaper now days . Cleaned her up a little last weekend and put a quick wax to the oxidized paint . Taking a little getting used to looking up instead of looking down at traffic LOL . Summer is the wrong time to be low .

Saving big bucks, PLUS the bonus of not having to scrub kamakazie bugs off the Ford!!!!

I'll tell you Bobby, you aren't alone. I'm seeing a whole lot less SUV's on the road and a lot more economy cars. It used to be down here that most of the vehicles on the road were big old trucks or SUV's, not so much any more.

When Dan gets a new car I'm going to buy his Honda, it's a lot better on gas than my Crown Vic.

Don

Oh fill up was $27 and some change , 150 was $45 every 2 1/2 days at best . Hate to see it set but still need one for some things i do . I did take it for a small drive this Saturday there is about 11 gals in it should last me a few months now .

Dave even i at 6 ft had to stand on running board lol. What makes them new bugs stick so hard also .

Don been looking around here also must be a slower turn over . Guy at work bought a 85 Honda a couple years ago for $500 it has about 200k miles on it now runs great .

45 bucks every 3 days ! even iw asnt that bad i was sued to 60 a week not it would be more like 80

I bought a 93 Honda Prelude with 164,000 miles. I NEVER thought I would buy an import or Honda. Well I had to get rid of the 85 C10 chevy and go with this. Glad I made the choice. My plan was to buy it, drive it a few months and sell it. I love this car now. It handles very good, GREAT on gas, and for the bigger 2.3L motor (bigger compaired to Civics and such) it actually hauls butt (has the 5 speed). I've saved lots of money on gas but still putting about 40-50 bucks in it to fill it up when it used to only take 25 bucks to fill a Honda up and last for a week or two.

For an interesting comparison, look at your first job. Take the hourly pay and divide it by the cost of gasoline at the pump at that time: I made $1 an hour working at a gas station and gas sold for 16.9 cents per gallon then (1966). That means my hourly pay could buy 5.9 gallons gas... For the equivalent today, the same 5.9 gallons would cost me 3.80 (cost of gas) times 5.9 = $22.42 which could be compared to my original $1 per hour

In 1969, I made $4.96 an hour and gas cost about 35 cents. Using the same formula, I could buy 14.2 gallons with one hour's pay. Equating to today at $3.80 per gallon, I would have to make $53.85 per hour to buy the same amount.

mike in tucson

Problem is, I'm STILL MAKING $ 1 and hour!!!!!

Don

My first job was setting pins in a bowling alley at 10 cents a game. Leaque night was always good for about $3 in tips. Took me a month to earn enough to buy one of those new fangled transistor radios by a little known Jap company called Sony. It helped with the boredom when people weren't rolling.

Gas was $.20/gal, so working two games got me a gallon of gas. 30 games or $3 got me a fill-up,

Last night, I filled up my daily driver with a discount card worth 50 cents off every gallon purchased. Still cost me $43.50 to fill up. And that's for my Subaru, not the Mountaineer.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Problem is, I'm STILL MAKING $ 1 and hour!!!!!

Don

Geez, you up to a buck now??? Sure do wish I'd get a raise!!!!!!

I pumped gas back in the early 70's and made made a little over $2 a hour . Gas was in the high 20 cents a gallon .



At $155 to fill the truck what would i need to make LOL . The little hauler is about a $50 fill and it looks like i can get allmost 2 weeks of driving .