RichC | September 12, 2020
With a few miles of driving this week (nothing like my years of back and forth to NE Ohio) … I kept an eye out for anomalies in diesel fuel price. prices. It just so happened that Sidney and Wapakoneta prices were a bit lower than either Toledo or home in Cincinnati, so I planned […]
Category: Automotive, BMW, Diesel, Travel |
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Tags: BMW, covid19, diesel, driving, fillup, fuel, kroger, mpg, station, x5 35d
RichC | September 3, 2020
I shared a question to a few of my automotive friends on a Twitter a few weeks ago … prior to my WordPress post disappeared due to a mysql crash (grrr!) … A question for #Millennials: What is this automotive “thing” and how does it work? So much of what we remember from our youth […]
Category: Automotive, Gadget, Memories, Personal, Photos, TBT |
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Tags: automotive, cars, fuel, gadget, gas, job, memories, millennials, oil, service, shell, spout, station
RichC | March 12, 2020
Question: How old do you have to be to identify this widely recognized sound from our automotive past? What is this sound? My first “real job” was as a Shell gas station attendant when I turned 16 years old (although cut lawns, did odd jobs and worked as “boy” labor for a commercial fishing […]
Category: Audio, Automotive, Education, Memories, Personal |
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Tags: attendant, bell, college, degrees, Education, first job, gas station, mp3, payoff, pump, pump jockey, service, shell, sound, sounds, station, student loans
RichC | August 23, 2015
Chuckled at the CNBC post on “Iconic Cars that are no longer around” and remembering our couple of our very functional “woodie-look” wagons of old as well as my father-in-laws’ wagons. Neither of us had the extinct Buick Roadmaster (above), but he had several Chevrolet station wagons … the last being the “White Whale” up […]
Category: Automotive |
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Tags: buick, cars, Chevrolet, oldsmobile, roadmaster, station, wagon