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Old 01-04-2018, 05:43 PM
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I found these two on Facebook from a "That 70's Page". The first one is at McDonald's in Laredo TX in 1977. The second is of Peaches Records and Tapes; unsure where and exact year. I posted these since they had Pontiac's in them.
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Old 01-06-2018, 10:31 AM
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This is a test.... it may or may not bring back memories of this time of crisis.



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Old 01-07-2018, 09:24 PM
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A few pictures of my family's old 1966 Bonneville, taken when it was brand new. This was my mom & dad's first new car, and it's responsible for my long time love of Pontiacs. Purchased in State College, PA, and sold in Springfield, VA in 1979. I have no idea if it survived...

The second picture is mom and me - I was about 1-1/2 years old at the time.
What a sweet machine, I mean, Mo-Chine!

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Old 01-07-2018, 11:19 PM
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This is a test.... it may or may not bring back memories of this time of crisis.



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Yes, I remember this time. It seems like everywhere you went, someone had plaid pants.

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Old 01-07-2018, 11:30 PM
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Actually I remember this time very well. In Virginia the gas was rationed by selling gas on "even/odd" days to cars bearing even or odd last numbers. In my case the GTO had BAL-141 (odd) as the numbers. I still have the tag, too.
If you happened to be good friends with a a gas station owner (let's say a Texaco station) and had a buddy with a tag ending in an even number on his '69 Z-28, you might be able to buy gas any day you like. That is, if you had a screwdriver in your possession and parked around the corner to swap tags first.
Hypothetical scenario, of course.

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Old 01-08-2018, 08:05 AM
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Yep. Been there done that.

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Old 01-08-2018, 02:38 PM
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Scam at the time was a fellow would walk down the long line and collect $5 from each customer ( to speed up the line) then just walk off. So how did they ration for lawn mowers?I spy a Corvette in the picture, probably selling for 2K

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Old 01-08-2018, 03:17 PM
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My parents took us down to Maine beach for the summer back then. We'd go down in two big cars (my parents, my dads parents, us three kids and a baby sitter). Two big Olds that year (an 88 and a 98). They couldn't make it on a fill up (it was about 325 miles) so we had to gas up in White River Junction, Vermont (lunch at HoJo's). We waited for about 2 hours and only got I think 10 gallons per car. just made it to the beach. After that my dad would go out first thing in the morning to a station off the beaten track and by the end of the week had a full tank in each car.

To be safe when it came time to head back home at the end of the summer we left with two Jerry cans in each trunk. We were able to get gas but it felt good to have enough to make it home if we needed to. The smell of the gas in the car as the trunks heated up in the mid day sun wasn't so nice though!

Most people slowed up that summer even though the double nickel hadn't kicked in yet. I do a lot of intercity and I've tested mileage over the years at different speeds; reducing from 70-75 to 55 reduced consumption by about 20-25% on 60's cars and about half that on modern cars (I guess aerodynamics and multigeared transmissions make the consumption penalty at higher speeds less expensive)

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Imagine an original car like that sitting out in the snow now! Not likely.

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Pontiac various
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What's the name of the dealership in the third photo?

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Old 01-13-2018, 10:01 AM
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I was clean up and reorganizing the basement storage and ran across this.
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That's probably over 50 years old and those cars still look the same.
(as compared to all the other race types)


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North, mentioning White River Jct. and HoJo's alone brings back memories. We'd stay and party at HoJo's back in '78 thru the 80s when I worked for Anchor Mtr Frt.

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Ever see any Kruger Trucks there?

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Old 01-28-2018, 01:30 PM
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Here are a couple of dim photos that happened to catch in their background the MILNE PONTIAC dealership in Logan, WV that closed in the early-mid 70's. The showroom was on the bottom floor street level and the service department was on the second floor with a rear entrance off another street. They also sold GMC trucks.

The first photo of a man pumping gas was taken in 1937. It appears that there is an old vertical style gas pump in the corner of the left space. The second photo was taken in 1940 of a power plant building project opposite the dealership. In the second photo there appears to be a “new” Pontiac in the left space. In clearer pictures one can see a car passing the building on the street in front of the new one.

When the 67 Sprints came out I owned a 65 GTO and my buddy had a 66 that he had bought from that dealer. Since my buddy’s dad bought fleet GMC pickup trucks from the dealer my buddy got to take new car rides by himself that not many people did. Accordingly, when a champagne colored, black vinyl top 4-spd full dress 67 Sprint showed up my buddy and I got to test it out all by ourselves. We were really impressed! Some 10 years later I saw that same Sprint car being used as a chicken house in a chicken lot.
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CDN2PLS2, in White River Jct? Sure did every once in a while. You did go into the bar did ya? Now that was one crazy place to party. We had some wild times in that place.

North, I'd eat dinner at Ho Jo's at night, but at A&W if it was lunch time and I had to keep on going to make a delivery. But I always tried to get back to WRJ to spend the night, and head for the bar.

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Lots of Hurst Pontiacs at Indy 62...
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Thanks for the pics.

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