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Old 29-04-2024, 08:45 PM   #9
FTE217
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Default Re: Memories from 1984.

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Originally Posted by XR Martin View Post
That's about 1.70/L in today's money.

Considering everything you are driving today is better on fuel than back then (let alone safety and performance), I think it's a no brainer that we're much better off today.
well you'd b loody well expect so just 40+yrs onwards lol.......
The biggest diff is the "freedom" or lets say less regulation the world we lived in back then but its progress as one says, yer progress my b utt re many things.
That $1.70L left you feeling less ripped than the better world today

yer too funny re the avgas Rallye.
We used to hit the shell refinary at Granville, fill up a 20l drum and away we went elsewhere for some street runs.
Gawd I luved the fumes and smell prktkljokr - speedway was one of the big go to's back then as well, oh that smell and aura.
80's was huge in my 20's funfunfun glad I survived it.
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