Darwin award Condidate?

Good eye, iCarus. I wonder how many others looked at the cars closely and identified models that they either owned or liked back then. Notice that there are at least five station wagons in the lower picture. Tanks that get worse gas mileage than the SUVs of today.

In the lower photo there are at least 33 cars... of them 3 are VW Beetles. That really says something in itself. The top photo look at the gas price and that was during a shortage.

 

and 1976

 

You would see lines like that again for $0.81 a gallon gas.
Isn't that the price in the top picture?

 

So it was the 1979 gas crisis?

 

Correction, I think the first VW rabbit was imported as a model year was '75.

Icarus

 

If I remember correctly, the mid-to-late 70s was just one long gas crisis. Between that and disco it was one of our suckier decades.

 

That makes sense. I moved to rural N.D. in 1974. When the crisis hit and there were gas lines in the city, a "gas line" for me was if there was another car ahead of me at the single pump at the gas station. There were a couple of times when I had to wait four or five minutes to get gas. It was a full-service station. The owner pumped the gas, washed your windshield, and if you asked him to, he checked your oil. He also made repairs on anything that burned gas, and he fixed flats.

 

Prime candidate for 2012:

Florida man dies after winning roach-eating contest - CNN.com

 

Sorry to hear that you're no longer in the game.

I know the European banks aren't lending at the moment. Have you thought about approaching venture capital companies instead? There are a couple of green cab companies here (Sydney), and they do very well in the corporate market - companies and councils like to be seen to be contracting to these companies.

If you saw the hills in Harrogate, you'd change your mind about this...

 

The fact that the Golf/Rabbit is driving past that queue full of massive 70s gas-guzzlers says a lot (although there is another one in the queue, I suppose). VW should have used this photo as an advert.

I'm sure that in the next fuel crisis, there'll be photos like this of Priuses driving past queues of Escalades and Navigators and Hummers.

 

I not sure if you can see but in the garage in the upper left corner there are three VWs being repaired.

 

I didn't know VW had started selling DSG gearboxes back then.

 

And on top of the list is:

Japanese nuclear plant operator admits playing down risk - CNN.com

 

YEP,
You are correct, I had a blue '75 one. It was a fun car to drive, you could chirp the front tires from a red light / stop sign.Traded it for a '77 Datsun pick up truck. The truck was a better vehicle to haul firewood.

DBCassidy