Good to see you back Simon. We'll look forward to those photos. [Linked Image]

You know I don't remember those diesel prices at all for some reason, and I started driving in 1982. I guess that I just never really looked at the diesel prices, as "normal cars" didn't use that smelly stuff! [Linked Image]

I do remember somewhere around that time that regular 4-star (*) was, IIRC, about £1.20 or £1.30 per gallon -- And it was still priced by the GALLON then, none of this government-imposed liters nonsense (with suitable apologies to our Continental friends! [Linked Image] ).

(*) The old grading of fuel here used a star system: 2-star and 3-star was used for lower-compression engines, and a high-octane 5-star was available for the performance engines. Gradually those other grades were phased out until we were left with just 4-star. That was all before unleaded arrived on the scene later in the 1980s.


[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 02-14-2006).]