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Old 07-30-2012, 12:55 AM
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That would have been when petrol was 95 cents a litre

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Yep, and a fella would run out and pump the gas for you and wash your windscreen. Ahh the good old days....
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Yep, and a fella would run out and pump the gas for you and wash your windscreen. Ahh the good old days....
Mike, if I remember correctly BP had a gingle that went "Windscreen,Water, Battery, Oil and your tyres! " and all the staff ran out in sparkling white overalls

But then petrol was about 1/6 a gallon so, thats errr $0.15 for 4.54 ltrs and I got about 5 bob for working pretty much all day Saturday for that !! LOL
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Mike, if I remember correctly BP had a gingle that went "Windscreen,Water, Battery, Oil and your tyres! " and all the staff ran out in sparkling white overalls

But then petrol was about 1/6 a gallon so, thats errr $0.15 for 4.54 ltrs and I got about 5 bob for working pretty much all day Saturday for that !! LOL
One of my first after school and weekend jobs was working in a service station. That was when service actually meant something. Our overalls were brown. We would pump gas, wash windscreens, check and pump up tyres, check and top up oil and battery as required. All at no charge to the customer (except for oil top ups). The bell would ring as they drove in and we'd be out there to meet the customer. Everyone there took a lot of pride in their work (I know I did). I have to say I really enjoyed that job at the time. It beat doing a paper round hands down.

This was in about 1983. What happened in the years since....

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Boxy. My chassis number is 3169. What rack do they use. The one in mine is rubbing on the chassis. I'll have to space it. I have 4 piston jag calipers and 280mm disc. In depth manual? Not sure if 20 pages qualifies that, as in depth.
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