just having a clear up in work and I found some old petrol receipts for my old boss (retired)

He used to run a Rolls Royce as a daily hack and did Cardiff to London quite regularly

Look at the cost of 86.72 litres of four star at Heston services on the M4 in 1989 !!!!!!!!

And the full credit card number on the receipts :rofl: :rofl:

Makes you sick ! lol

this reminds me of an episode of Inspector Morse, the one where the driving instructor is the murderer, well Morse and Lewis are sat in the Jag watching a garage, and the fuel price is 56p a litre iirc :'(

When I started driving it was only 72p a litre (2002) - and I can still remember the 50 something pence a litre days!

the worst part is prices are very high now but crude oil is at a low lol so why hasnt the prices dropped lol

mad world we live in

When I started driving it was only 72p a litre (2002) - and I can still remember the 50 something pence a litre days!

I remember it going UP to 36.9p/litre when I'd been driving a while.

If the table below is to be believed, then petrol today is cheaper in real terms than in 1983 and that the Retail Prices Index has increased by a factor of approx 2.5 over the same period !

http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html

My own figures for petrol seem to bear out that the petrol price rise is more in line with the general RPI @ a factor increase of 2.94. Overall cost increase in car ownership and driving is about 2.25

Seem to recall that running a VW Golf Mk1 1 litre for 7,000 miles could be done (legally) , with myself doing the servicing/repairs, for about £750 all-up, sans depreciation and finance charges, per annum.

Comprehensive insurance must have been approx £210. 7000 miles at 30 MPG 233 gallons @ approx a £1.70 per gallon = £400, MOT @£22, RFL £80, Servicing once a year (Oil change twice) @ £40.

My current running costs for 1.4 Fab saloon doing approx same mileage @ 40MPG gives a petrol cost of £875 @ £5 a gallon and total cost of £1700 (excluding depreciation and finance charges) on comp insurance (£330) with garage doing servicing and MOT.

On the otherhand the average UK Gross wage has risen from £8,000 to £24,000 ! in the same period meaning that my annual car costs would be about 9% of avearge gross income in 1989 and 7% today.

Nick

Edited 25 February, 201016 yr by Clunkclick

When I started driving petrol was under a shilling (5p) a gallon, we didn't have litres then. But my weekly wage was around £5.00 so I can probably afford it more now than I could then.

36.1 p per litre the 1st time I filled up in February 1990.

And to answer your question westallc, the cost of petrol has got bugger all to do with the price of oil, and everything to do with the government stealing from your wallet.

I filled up yesterday at 111.9p per litre for bog standard diesel. This breaks down per litre (roughly) as follows:

- 56.19p fuel duty

- 30p the cost of the fuel

- 17p VAT

- retailer and delivery 8.5p

You pay 73p tax for every litre. Out of the remaining amounts, the oil company makes huge profits, the retailer and delivery company make money.

To get 111.9p the average rate tax payer has to earn about 160p. So for every £1.60 of your gross salary that you spend on petrol, you get a product worth 38.5p, or in other words, fuel is taxed at over 300%.

That's mental

It's 123.9p per litre of diesel where I'm from, about 112p per litre in Glasgow. Not too clued up on petrol prices at the mo.

Edited 26 February, 201016 yr by Leodhasach

86 litres! Bloody hell.. how big was the fuel tank on that thing!

86 litres! Bloody hell.. how big was the fuel tank on that thing!

About 19-20gallons (double the size of the Fabia)

the first car test James May did on TopGear was of his Bentley (same as RR) iirc that was about £84 to fill that too, although not too sure how empty it was to start with

It's cost me £40 today to fill my diesel to the three quarter's full mark. Had about 60 miles left in it when I filled up. Times change !

86 litres! Bloody hell.. how big was the fuel tank on that thing!

Not as big as the one in my Land Rover :'(

Sit back and weep -my first old banger ( me aged 20 ) was an old Wolseley 1500 where ,if flush I'd treat it to 5 star at 5s&6p a GALLON - ( ABOUT 28p TODAY) .or my minivan in the early 70's -cost for a full tank = £1.50

I remember it well VWD - and as an apprentice, my weekly take-home pay was just over a fiver

Back a few years ago SWMBO and I had a Mk1 Golf. It was end of the month and we needed fuel, so used a credit card to buy £5 worth of fuel. The attendant forged the CC slip (no electronic terminal them) by writing in a 1 so it read £15, and our argument to the CC comapny to get them to check was that you couldn't get £15 worth in a Golf's tank.

I hope he has changed his VISA card number.....

Reading this thread reminds me of an article my dad wrote for his Motor club magazine 15 years ago. His friend, OK he is an accountant, unearthed an 20 year old (now 35 year old) pocket book.

The precise nature of his records show the prices cover the dates 14/4/1974 to 8/4/1975. All prices are in "new" money, not £.s.d.

Jump Leads £.1.25

Battery (with 18 month guarantee) £6.95

MOT £1.70

Hypoy £0.27

Tin of Grease £0.30

One Gallon Castrol GTX £1.49

1 Gallon Castrol GTX (with 4 Free? Tumblers) £1.68

Engine Oil Filter (Fram) £0.46

One Goodyear G800 Tyre £9.81

New Exhaust £18.10

Tin of Radweld (for upto 20 pint Radiator) £0.46

New Clutch Quotation dated 3/2/76 (not sure what car)

• Labour £5.00
  
• Parts £11.55
  
• VAT at 8%! £1.32
  

Clutch Total £17.87