Check out the cost of fuel

olddog642 · Post by **olddog642** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:37 pm

Not exactly a subaru but is a 4x4 the picture was taken in the 1920's USA look how expensive fuel was for a gallon back in those days.
Hylton

d_generate · Post by **d_generate** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:10 pm

Yeah it was only about 12c per litre when I started driving, then again a new Falcon was only $4,000 & I used to earn $38.83 for a 45 hour week as a 17yo, multiply them all by 10 and you've roughly got today's prices..........Probably goes the same for back then.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:17 pm

d_generate wrote:Yeah it was only about 12c per litre when I started driving, then again a new Falcon was only $4,000 & I used to earn $38.83 for a 45 hour week as a 17yo, multiply them all by 10 and you've roughly got today's prices..........Probably goes the same for back then.

SHIT !! I didn't know you were THAT OLD TOM

Did they have the Falcon back then

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:11 pm

lol... when I got my license, petrol was 45 cents a litre at that time... I was earning $550 a week for 38 hours a week.
Cheers
AP

d_generate · Post by **d_generate** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:17 pm

RSR 555 wrote:SHIT !! I didn't know you were THAT OLD TOM Did they have the Falcon back then

Yes mate, at an age where I should not be playing with toys, let alone still building them, I think the XB had just come out around that time.
Peter Pan syndrome:mrgreen:

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:05 am

AlpineRaven wrote:lol... when I got my license, petrol was 45 cents a litre at that time... I was earning $550 a week for 38 hours a week.
Cheers
AP

Now you're making me feel old.. hehe My first year apprenticeship earned me the weekly sum of $125 and fuel I couldn't afford as there was too many other things to spend my money on

d_generate wrote:Yes mate, at an age where I should not be playing with toys, let alone still building them, I think the XB had just come out around that time.
Peter Pan syndrome:mrgreen:

Well looks like you've got your toy now so you shouldn't have to do anymore

olddog642 · Post by **olddog642** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:20 am

Bugger me,
when I first started work I earnt 28 pounds a month and that was for a 48 hour week and fuel was one shilling and three pence a gallon
However I think I had more in my pocket at the weeks end plus leisure time was a whole lot simpler like going dancing oh and of course romancing eheheeh.
Hylton:twisted: