remember Ethyl

anyone old enough to remember....fill it up with ethyl

 

She was a neat ol gal.............

 

Long before my time I take it cause I dont remember

 

I'm really old, I remember when ethyl was $.22 per gallon, smokes were $.19 a pack. My dad used to send me to the gas station with a $5 bill, fill it up and get me a pack of Kools......and I want my change !!

long time ago

 

Yes Sir ... what will it be ...Regulator or Ethyl ?
Ethyl if she's working !

 

my dad would always ask me for the green stamps......lol
seems like back then you only had to choices of gas.........regular or ethyl

and yes , she was a good ole gal too

 

I'm 62 and I remember my Dad saying it back in the 50's. Also remember painting that logo on Martin gas station signs as late as '65.

Stopped at a small Ma/Pa full-serve gas station (the owner said he was one of only two left in the metro Indy area) on 136 just north of the strip a few years back and asked him to, "Fill 'er up with ethyl" - he just chuckled and started cleaning my windows!! Went that way to the RR Rumble this year and it was gone.

 

Yep i remember, i worked at the gas station and sold good ol ethyl, and you could get coke for a nickel, used to sneek out of school at lunch go to a place called sandy's burgers, got a burger, fry, drink for .35 cents.

 

yup. .29 a gallon, I made $1.40 an hour in 1967.
Spent my evenings pumping Ethyl...

 

Remember it fondly. My '35 Pick-up with the 10 to 1 FH ran real well on Ethyl - did not like regular at all. Same with the Mustang. And it was CHEAP. Date night in High School was easy with 10 bucks in the pocket and Mom's car came back with gas in it. Coll Mom - she had a '62 Studebaker four speed Hawk! Dad let me use his MK Jag - both drank Ethyl!

 

i remember pumping Ethyl a few times

 

Green stamps, ethyl, full service gas attendant, gas stations were actually service stations, freebies with fillups (presidential glasses/plates, apollo coins, bc comics stuff from Marathon, dino the dinosaur freebies), driveway bells at the gas station...cruisin' all day on 5 bucks worth of gas...anyone remember the Gulf Oil commercial where the kid pulls in and gives the attendant a buck for gas and then finds some more loose change and keeps getting more gas and pulls off in a muscle car

 

West Coast: "White Pump" at the Standard Station where I worked , Custom Supreme.....It was the good stuff! ............

 

DuPont and GM owned the formula, and they reaped the rewards of it at the cost of our environment. Hundreds of workers died of lead poisoning, not to mention the fact that they knew that there were alternatives to increase fuel octane.

 

Dollar's worth of ethyl and a quart of re-refined motor oil, please.

 

My first real job...meet the car at the pump, check the oil, tire pressure, wash the windshield..all for a buck's worth of regular(often 3-4 gallons). Yup, we all joked about pump'in Ethyl..............shit, just realized I'm old!!

 

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West Coast: "White Pump" at the Standard Station where I worked , Custom Supreme.....It was the good stuff! ............"

yup , always got the "white pump" in our fast street cars !!!!

 

I used to pump Ethyl! Gas that is you bunch of perverts. Worked at the Texaco (only on in a town of 1000 population) pumped ethyl, checked tires, battery, belts, brake fluid, oil, radiator, wiper blades and washed the windsheild before the pump cut off.

 

She was married to Fred.

 

That and the free glass we got if we got an 8 gal or more fill up. Wife broke about 30 of those the first year we were married.

 

Yea
$.27 a gallon unless there was a gas war. I saw it as low as $.11 once.
I'm sure my folks remember would remember it way lower than that, they were depression era.

 

IF YOU CAN'T GET GAS, GET ETHYL. IF YOU CAN'T GET ETHYL, GET MABEL. NOW STEP ON IT! - Marx Brothers - Duck Soup

 

I remember Supreme. Dad took me to fill up the car once and told me to go ahead and fill it up, I grabbed the supreme pump instead of the regular and he was not happy! A whole ten bucks for gas! Yikes, there went his money for smokes!!

There used to be a 76 that sold the 110 octane to anyone who wanted it! It was a bit pricey at 65 cents, but hey, it made the car run real nice!

 

I remember Sunoco used to sell some real high octane stuff too that my Dad would get for his 64 impala SS...

 

This is Eythl...

 

...all you old guys that remember Ethyl belong in the Hamb Old Farts Club.

...wait...I remember Ethyl...

 

One of my friend's parents found a dog last year at the old Ethyl Oil Station in Highlands, NC - they kept the dog and named her Ethyl.

And, yes I remember Ethyl Oil.

 

I remember being real little and seeing GAS WAR signs and being scared shitless and asking my Dad what that meant...the neighborhood gas station owner would give you a calender every December...

 

That's all Clark gas stations sold. I even remember the jingle. Clark Super 100 gasoline. Thousands say it's best... Largest selling independent gasoline... in the middle west. Fill up, today, you'll know just what we mean. Buy Clark, Super, 100 gasoline!