Originally Posted by ZERACER
I'm going to date myself a bit here but I bought my first car, at age 14, in 1958 and gas was only 19.9 cents a gallon. When they would get a gas war going, before all of the stations were owned by gas companies, It got as low as 14.9 cents a gallon. Of course, I only made 25 cents an hour at my first job so everything is somewhat relative.
Yes, in those days you could get your driving permit at 15.
Here in MO it got down to $0.12 per gal in 1964.
In 1959, was driving at 12 but only in Clark Co. Missouri. Sheriff let you go if you were a local and a farmer. They figured I was safer in the 51 Pontiac straight eight than the three point Allis Chambers tractor.
They were right.
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