SKooK, Second childhood or mid-life crisis?
Even in high school I gravitated to a panel truck and later vans. Great for tail gate parties, changing into and out of wet suits and sleeping at the golf course every Friday and Saturday night (I recieved $1.25 per golfer in the fore some I signed up each weekend. $10.00 a week was enough for gas, beer and dates in 1964.
Ahhh...........those were the days Wry..........65 cents a gallon when I started driving. My other car is a van.......love the utility of the thing. Yep.....in '77 when I started cruising around with friends, a 6 pack of Schmidts was $1.23....a pack of smokes about 2 bucks. And best of all..........for $3.00 you could feast out at Burger King at the end of the night
I'm a bit older, .23 cents a gallon for regular leaded gas when I started to drive, less when there were gas wars (I once paid .07 cents a gallon at an ARCO station near SF State). A pack of Marlboro was .25 cents in the Machines ($10 a Carton a few years later when I was in the Navy and we were out to sea). A ticket to sit in the end zone at Kezar and watch the 49ers was .50 cents, and to ride the streetcar was .15 cents (there was no parking at Kezar, it was on the SE corner of Golden Gate Park).