How much !!!!!!!

[RichardCranium]

I remember queues for petrol

New Year's Eve wasn't it?

[NickFitz]

On a related note, I remember the uproar in the papers when petrol hit £1 a gallon...

I remember queues for petrol

I remember the Government issuing petrol ration books in 1973, although in the end they were never used.

One further problem with petrol going over £1/gallon was that the old mechanical pumps on every forecourt had been designed in the days when such a thing was unthinkable, and couldn't be set to a higher price than £1/gallon. The workaround was to set the price to that of a half-gallon, although a gallon still had to be pumped to clock up that amount, meaning that the actual cost of the fuel you'd pumped was twice what the pump displayed. Stickers saying "X 2" were hastily affixed to the right of the price display on petrol pumps throughout the land

[Sysman]

Ah. Petrol.

4/6d a gallon of 4 star.

And you could still buy 5 star if you had something that required it.

Like a 3.5 litre Rover or a Jaguar.

Ain't nostalgia great?

I think I've still got the odd recording of The Saint from 1968. Lovely old cars, including Police Wolseleys. With bells, not sirens.