Re: Gas Crisis in the Late 70's
When the first fuel crisis hit I was driving a car that got 12 mpg all the time, city/highway it didn't matter. So I purchased my first good street bike, and it got 48 mpg. For the rest of the 70's, for at least 6 months out of the year I pretty much lived on my motorcycles.
We never had any odd/even fuel rationing that I can remember, but I did encounter it on a trip to the East coast. My friend and I had Gold Wing motorcycles so we had to fuel up around every 200 miles. When we stopped at a gas station on the wrong day, we were told that since we had out of state plates, we didn't have to worry about the odd/even rules.
By the late 70's, I purchased my first (of many) Japanese cars, and fuel milage was never much of an issue after that.