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1978 has a tumblr, pretty cool to look through if you are into reminiscing

http://sandiego1978.tumblr.com/page/2

new info about 1937 Chevrolet dealerships installing truck beds in business coupes... I thought that was a thing people had to make for themselves

I've posted about this gas rationing ingenuity before, that a truck was issued more gas rations, and a car less, so some people converted their cars into trucks by just adding a pickup bed where the rumble seat or trunk had been... this is the first I've read about it being done by a dealership... But the owner of this 1937 Chevy business coupe is the 2nd owner and bought this car 40 years ago, so I'll just work with that.

found on http://crosleykook.blogspot.com/2011/12/six-engines-one-wagon-37-chevy-two.html

When driving through Barstow California, don't get gas at the Chevron on Barstow Rd Exit, it's 60 cents a gallon more than the Valejo station across the overpass... that is 12 dollars more for 20 gallons, wasted

I've posted before that I believe that some gas stations change the prices highest left to right to get you to accidentally buy the most expensive gas http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/do-some-gas-stations-try-to-trick-you.html

above are the reversed from normal levels of price gouging at the Chevron, and below, in the normal arrangement, is the Valejo gas station prices

Worst prices in town, on Coronado Island in San Diego Bay... (rich neighborhood, plus only 2 or 3 gas stations, and 10 minutes from the nearest mainland gas station)

the normal price in San Diego is 3.77 a gallon

Do some gas stations try to trick you into selecting the more expensive grade, by reversing the normal order of buttons?

Above is the norm around San Diego, and everywhere else in America I've bought gas.... but below is the reverse order that I just noticed.

Gilmore's 1934 traveling neon sign fuel tanker (mack chassis)

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/471611.html#cutid1

Loading a Doodlebug in Feb 1934 San Antonio

Found on http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/

The elusive Doodlebug fuel tanker, seeing one photographed in the wild is so rare that this is the first sighting of one in 2 years. (seriously, this is only the 2nd photo I've ever come across)

in 1935 Texaco designed this tanker and had Diamond T truck company make them to provide greater economy, ease of operation, increased visibility, and greater capacity.

Rental car companies are under scrutiny for gas price gouging, USA Today did a story last week

A USA TODAY survey of auto rental gas prices at 13 big airports on April 25 found Hertz was charging $9.29 a gallon at all 13. Dollar and Thrifty were charging $8.99 a gallon at two.

At $9.29 a gallon, Hertz customers renting a Ford Club Wagon, which has a 35-gallon fuel tank, would owe Hertz $325.15 for gas if they returned the wagon with a nearly empty tank and hadn't prepaid for the gas.

Renters who pay ahead of time for a tank of gas from Hertz or another car rental company, though, may find the per-gallon price cheaper than at many local gas stations.

Of 102 prepay prices charged by the eight big car rental companies at 13 airports on April 25, 54 were cheaper than the average price at local gas stations that day. Forty-three prices charged for prepay gasoline were higher, USA TODAY's analysis of rental company prices and the AAA auto club's gas-station data found.

Most or all rental companies' prepay prices were less than the average at local gas stations

Though renters who prepay may pay less per gallon than at local gas stations, it's questionable whether they save money by doing so.

Prepayment is for a full tank of gas and can benefit renters who return vehicles with a nearly empty gas tank. But many renters who pay ahead return vehicles with a substantial amount of gas in the tank and are not credited for it.
http://travel.usatoday.com/news/story/2011/05/Rental-car-gas-prices-hit-more-than-9-a-gallon/46778642/1

In February of this year I checked the price of gas at a couple rental car companies here in San Diego: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/rental-car-fuel-charges-as-of-last-week.html

Gas prices around the globe, March 2011

chart from http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/market-news/gas-prices-world-high-low-country-pain-pump/19895547/?icid=maing-grid7main5dl3sec1_lnk252904

via AIRINC http://www.air-inc.com

Rental car fuel charges as of last week, before gas prices jumped

National...........$5.01 a gallon
Avis..................$7.99
Hertz................$8.29

This is what you will be charged if they have to top off the tank, if you opt not to prepay them, and don't fill the car before returning it.

I'd love to go see these gas stations with fighter planes and bombers

Above and below are the same place, six miles south of Portland Oregon

the above is in Everett Washington

From http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=920

Spitzler's Auto Supply with curbside gas pumps

From Shorpy

1920 Penn Oil fuel station with " Lightning Motor Fuel " !.. I want me some of that!

from Shorpy

1920 method of obtaining gas in Brazil was a department store

The photo above is from 1920, highlighting the "torpedo" a Ford TT.

The coolest thing in this image is the writing on the wall of the warehouse: Custodian of gasoline "Motano"-Standard Oil of Brazil.

So this was the sale of "Gazolina" in the early days! Well before the gasoline pumps, fuel was sold in department stores in brass!
http://antigosverdeamarelo.blogspot.com/2010/01/jacarei-curiosidades.html