Bender Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 At the time of free tumblers you could buy 5star, I also remember the tumblers Quote
Guest Richzx6r Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 When I was at school I used to work in a petrol station on the pumps during the evening's. One ill conceived promotion was to offer a stamp towards a set of tumblers every time someone bought petrol. The daft bit was that they didn't say how much petrol the customer had to buy in order to qualify.So this guy and his wife used to drive in, ask for 50p of fuel. Drive round the block and come back for another 50p, and so on and so on and so on. I must have served them ten times on the trot some evenings.The tumblers were crap of course, but they were "free".Back then petrol was 76p a gallon. Two, three and four star, and we mixed two stroke with a pump and offered a squirt of redex from a can on top of the counter. And the owner had rewired the place himself, which wasn't helped by the fact he was colour blind. 76p a gallon when I first started riding it was 98p a litre I wish we could go back to the 70s/80s Quote
fastbob Posted July 13, 2019 Posted July 13, 2019 Here you go , these were really nice actually . As I recall I glued a load of these onto an old windcheater so that I could look like a real biker when I was on my bicycle with apehangers and banana seat . My father was unimpressed and told me " Your not going around looking like one of those bloody tearaways " I think my destiny was set from that moment . Quote
JRH Posted August 6, 2019 Posted August 6, 2019 Rummaging in the shed today I found these.Again by Shell Quote
Smithers Posted August 6, 2019 Posted August 6, 2019 The increase in mpg during summer is (mainly) due to the reduced air density the car/bike is pushing through, not the temperature of the air entering the engine.I used super duper diesel in the car for a year so ~12k miles with no significant increase in performance or mileage. Interestingly, reduced air density in hot weather makes it harder for aircraft to take off and has to use more fuel to do so. Wasn't super duper an ABBA song? Quote
Mr Fro Posted August 6, 2019 Posted August 6, 2019 Interestingly, reduced air density in hot weather makes it harder for aircraft to take off and has to use more fuel to do so. Wasn't super duper an ABBA song? I don't know, I'm not that old. Quote
raesewell Posted August 6, 2019 Posted August 6, 2019 Interestingly, reduced air density in hot weather makes it harder for aircraft to take off and has to use more fuel to do so. Wasn't super duper an ABBA song? I don't know, I'm not that old. You will be one day Quote
Mr Fro Posted August 6, 2019 Posted August 6, 2019 You will be one day Only if I go back in time three years. Quote
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