Waiting in line to fill up the car in 1979
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- Footage of the 1979 oil crisis or "second oil crisis" and it's impact at various gas stations in Virgina and Maryland.
Long lines, people pushing cars into the station, filling up the tank, etc.
Fun drives around the street and some very cool cars!
This video last around 20 minutes.
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I was 20 years old then. I never realized how far we've gone...in the wrong direction, since then. Despite the modern conveniences, I'd go back to that time in a heartbeat if I could.
People had patience back then, cars lasted longer back then too and were better quality than the plastic cars these days
That makes two of us!
Same 100%
@@thedailyhummm so what’s so plastic about the c8 corvette?
Preach!
I never imagined I’d be this enthralled with watching a 20 minute video of people getting gas, but I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it!
its not gas its a liquid
Me too! I never grew up in the 70s but I enjoyed every second of the cool cars😊
It was surprisingly relaxing to just observe life back when I was a 19-year-old soldier. Nostalgic and a bit sad how time flies. I’m thankful to be enjoying life and able to reminisce about those gas guzzlers.
I remember waiting an hour and a half to get gas every other day because I drove over 100 miles each day !
@@philskype101 It's a GAS watching 'em get GAS! LOL
My mom was pregnant with me in the summer of 1979.
The man who owned the gas station in our neighborhood was a kind, elderly gentleman named Norman.
He was so afraid that my parents would need to get to the hospital when it was time, and not have the gas because of the embargo/shortage.
He’d have my father meet him behind his station at 1:00 am and he’d fill up their car (this wasn’t “allowed” back then.) Here it is nearly 45 years later. My mom still remembers and talks about him 💛
I think Norman is your real dad...😊
@@Saiko-JohnnyNorman was like 85 when I was born. I know nothing is impossible….but 😂
@@SheilaKaneDecoy Okay, that makes it less likely. 😁 Bless Norman...
😂😂😂😂😂😂@@SheilaKaneDecoy
@Saiko-Johnny 😂😂😂😂😂
Look how many colored cars! Now 95% of them are either black or silver...
Water based latex nano-shit paint cannot hold organic pigments...
no, what is with people saying that? these days auto makers are offering amazing colors, though I still hate new cars, just saying the color options are awesome these days.
Racist
White seems to be the big one.
°|||||||° Mopar ie Jeep still to this day has some great once and the names are usually pretty good too, °|||||||°
I was a senior in high school in 1979. People were chill back then. No social media, no cell phones and we had patience waiting our turn. Miss those days 😢
I was in 10th grade that year, getting my driver's license.... I miss those days too so much 😢
I was a floating spirit waiting for 1982 to come so I could be born.
Absolutely right!!!!
Lmao sure they were, in your bubble.
@@cip6292 no bubble. Life was very laid back. If you got caught drinking and driving, the cops would take you home. You left your front door unlocked. People TALKED to one another on the phone-no texting. Natural beauty was in. Gas was cheap. Kids respected their elders. Less crowded.
No fights, no yelling and screaming, no trying to cut the line. We have gone so wrong.
Stop human cloning
I just swore off driving through my neighboring town last week after the last road rage incident, and that was on the HIGHWAY, going down a straight line at a steady state of speed. People can't even get along to do that in a functional way anymore.
Now I brave the interstate to bypass it all because at least there we have 3 to 4 lanes and I can tuck away in the slow lane and just have to make way for oncoming traffic every now and then.
Let the DEMONS kill and eat each other everywhere else.
So no different than waiting several hours in line just to go several hundreds of feet down the road to the gas station after hurricane Ian last year. Not knowing if you'll have enough gas to make it or if any will be left at the pump by the time it's your turn. No fights, no yelling and screaming, no trying to cut the line. We haven't gone wrong about that. Seriously, wtf was the last time you waited in a gas line for an hour or two? lol
There were tons of fights are you kidding
do you have that problem now when filling up? also ted bundy aids cold war
Stress levels were much lower in everyday life before the internet and smart phones.
I miss actually talking to people😢………..
Everyone likes to blame it on technology, but look at the economic situation in the US over the decades and you'll see a much clearer picture as to why people are the way that they are these days.
im fascinated how you can tell all that from a video of a gas station
You can always tell who wasn’t there in a given time period during these “nostalgia” videos. The late 1970s economy was a total disaster and it’s why Reagan beat Carter in 1980. You’re talking steady, double digit inflation over a period of years combined with high unemployment. That’s called “stagflation.” Now, imagine gas prices doubling in two or three years. That happened. And to get the gas, you had to plan the day of the week to get it and then wait in line for it. You couldn’t go anywhere because that gas in the tank was both precious and expensive and scarce. Meanwhile, the Cold War was raging (kind of an oxymoron, but true) so every time you heard a jet plane you wondered if it was really a bomber or missile.
A little historical perspective is needed to cope with today’s stress. Folks might just calm down a bit. Stop worshipping toxic “leaders” and just live more intelligently.
@@mam362it’s amazing the sweeping generalizations people love to make
Almost felt like i was there. Smell of bad exhaust fumes, no AC, windows fully down, ELO's dont bring me down playing loudly in one car and ACDC's Highway to Hell in a nother while cigarette smoke filled the area and flat TAB and Coke cola being warmed on the all metal console. Ahhh the memories!
Great exhaust fumes.
What about when you would use the cig lighter the cig would get stuck to it? 😂😂😂
I did get a few 8track tapes stuck in the player, though, and had to use a matchbook to keep it in there. Remember roads that were full of tape stuff blowing in the wind.
Windows down.. Pulling up to a light and hearing the same AM station from the car in the next lane over...
Everybody drove rolling pieces of art even if a lot were beaters, straight body line cars with variety of colors are timeless compared to blobby modern cars in black gray and white
Amen brother. Bullshit gray and shit stain silver
Agreed. 70s cars were absolute piles of crap, but there was so much variety and interesting stuff back then.
@@GMfwdSpence but they were pieces of crap that were cheap and easy to fix and upgrade. Not like today's plastic dipped pile of computer chip blobs..
@@telcobilly I don’t disagree with you but this is the era when imports took off because of how shitty our cars were. Badly rusted by 7 years old, didn’t expect them to last 100,000 miles. That’s pretty bleak.
BINGO on that!!
That guy put his foot up on another vehicle while he put gas in his. Doing that today could get you assaulted or shot. Back then, no one cared. Life was good, and I was only a toddler.
Is that Jim Perry?
@@vampirerobot Hahaha, YES, it is! Good eye! Most people have no idea who he is! It's from a screen shot of an episode of "Sale of the Century". ☺
@@FireCracker3240 Love that show...watch old reruns on YT before I go to bed at night. Great host he was.
The bumpers were chromed steel, except for that silver Pontiac Trans Am.
This was the late 70s. The US was headed down hill by then. You could watch the US sliding quicker and quicker each day.
Look at all those classic muscle cars man
Yeah, but the guy at 0:10 with the new Honda Civic (remember when those were actually small?) was the one they all envied.
@@nlpnt Huh? I see this video and think "I wouldn't drive a Honda Civic now.. imagine driving one in 1979!?!"
@@VinylToVideothe 1979 Honda civic was estimated to get 40 mpg on the highway. The 1979 mustang v8 got 27 mpg highway, but that would be the new foxbody, the 1975 mustang II v8 got 18 on the highway, the 1969 boss mustang (10 yo old car) got 12. That said, most people spend the bulk of their drive in the city, so most of these muscle cars were getting single digit mpg, while their “evil” import counterparts were gaining in popularity. There’s a reason you’d see so many beetles back then. Also keep in mind that those EPA ratings weren’t very accurate. Test mules would essentially run at a constant speed, not stop and go, no wind force, or inclines. I’ve never gotten a car to come close to what the sticker claimed it got, and that’s with me keeping it below 2000 RPMs.
@@UmmYeahOk And? Why would I send my money to Japan, then or now?
@@VinylToVideo”then OR now?” You do realize that most of the “imports” you see on the road today are made IN America BY Americans, right? Meanwhile, most “domestics” are not. The most TRULY domestic company these days is Tesla, but something tells me you’re probably anti EV too, so look up a list of the “most american made vehicles in 2023” (2024 hasn’t ended yet) Top four spots go to Tesla, the next ELEVEN are what you would consider “imports.”
five criteria: assembly location, parts content, engine origin, transmission origin and U.S. manufacturing workforce. You want to support American jobs? Buy an “import.”
Legend has it, that man is still pushing that red VW Bug to this day.......
lol
It’s a 20 minute video and not everyone is going to watch it straight through. Timestamp
@@raydenbartley 5:12
😂😂😂😂😂
This shit had me dieing!!! Fuckin VW lol!!!
Looks pretty orderly. These days it would be fights and rage while drivers jockeyed in line with others cutting in. Not to say it was all roses back then, but people generally were more courteous than now, especially in tough situations. Now it seems much of the population has a death wish.
And notice how quiet and peaceful it all is, even though these folks must have been frustrated waiting an hour to fill up. Better times, by every measure.
You can thank the gun nuts for that.
@@bongodave13 everybody I knew had guns back then too.
@@bongodave13 you can't blame it soely on guns. back then we didn't have the sheer amount of certifiable crazies we have now.
Its because everything is too fast paced now and everything that's associated with the 21st century is designed with that in mind. Fast internet, instant phone connection, lightning updates, and the aesthetics of efficient no-frills mass-produced blobs that everything from clothing to cars to buildings follows adds to that.
The reason nobody is up in a tizzy is because nobody had to be anywhere, this was the attitude of the vast majority of people. We could relax, our dollars went so much further, and we didn't worry about the future and staying up-to-date. Life before twitter and tesla. A much better time.
In regards to a response about "certified crazies", its the way life is in the 2010s and 2020s that makes them that way. Those people didn't just appear, they've always been around. They were perfectly functioning people back then, because the pressures of the digital age and its extremely low wages and high cost of living, combined with them always taking the blame for what the vapid "progress" did to them. They had jobs that played to their strengths and quirks, which in the 21st century have become "obsolete" and were replaced with computers. But the people still exist without anywhere to go, and they cannot conform to what the rigid society expects of them, and they will never be able to. The only way to fix what's wrong with society is to have the 20th century again, the post-war years right up until 2000 all at the same time. Thankfully, its very easy to accomplish because it was all built with good old fashioned American ingenuity and raw materials because it was time to build.
It’s one thing to watch old movies to capture the times, but raw video, takes it to another level. Just Amazing!
Yea watching real life videos and not acting is so much different it’s like it’s 1979 again and not 2023.😀 but image what life it be like in 2042 2050 people be saying 2010s to 2020s were so cool watching videos from than because for them it be 2040s
I know right! It hits different watching a raw video.
I'm convinced you're a time traveler. It's crazy it's like you knew one day this footage would be watched and enjoyed by thousands of people
My mom graduated from high school in 1979. I found it interesting that even during a gas crisis that the gas was only $.86. It puts the world today into perspective.
thats about the same cost as it is now after inflation though, depending which state you live in
$.86 per gallon, given inflation, and the better efficiency of cars today, is far more expensive than gas costs now. A lot of those cars you see that line are getting under 20 miles per gallon. Overall today assume that cars go twice as far on a gallon of gas. Simply adjust for that and you come up to over $1.70 a gallon.. Right now about three dollars per gallon. Taking into account how long one has to work to make a dollar versus then, gas is way cheaper now than it was in this video.
@glittermorgueinc It had gone from $.39 cents to $.84 overnight. Remember, minimum wage was $2.35.
$.86 in '79 is equivalent to $3.70 in '24 inflation adjusted dollars. Therefore, gas is cheaper now. Currently $3.30 in Texas.
I works in the gas station in 1979 and we were the cheapest gas station in town and our prices were
regular .62 cents a gallon
unleaded .67 cents a gallon
premium (ethull) .69 cents a gallon
Across the street was a shell gas station and only rich people went there it seemed and they were .85 cents a gallon
I was just in high school & remember this. We lived in an apartment complex & every morning there were people who couldn't start their cars bc their gas had been siphoned out over night.
Then it was the mad dash to get the locking gas caps.
My mom got one right away when we 1st saw other neighbors w/their gasless cars. When I started to drive that was my 1st car.
We never took the locking gas cap off. And now I'm 58 & have had that lil key on my keyring my whole life.
Even now.
Oh the memories.
But, it still wasn't as bad as what we're dealing w/now.
There was still an air of innocence, trust, & humanity.
Good times Good times.
People talk about the depression and how you had to stay up at night and guard your vegetable garden from thiefs as well, so even in the 30's there was petty crime, but it was true back then families were still together, and people were patriotic and had group solidarity.. also black families stayed together and took care of their children back then. We are in much bigger trouble today. Some say the good old days are gone for good, I say remember right now, these are the good old days and it wont stay like this much longer so step back and appreciate what you have right now. I remember back in a more innocent time, just 4 years ago, or who would have though the early 2000's would have been such a significant time. But yeah I have a few years on me and the 80s were nice. There's actually kind of a cultural thing in places like Ukrain and Russia that were behind the Berlin wall among millenials who grew up in those cultures where they actually believe that the 80's in America was the height of human lifestyle, that it was time that human were the most free, and had the most wealth and the best of everything, and there's like whole kind of style or collectors things around magnum PI and the music and stuff because for them they were in these poor repressed countries looking at Magnum PI and thinking, wow that looks great. And they were right, actually somewhere in the 80's was probably the best time to be alive. People say in the 70's everyone was much more relaxed, and that was because stagflation wiped everyone out by 1980, but the stock market run beginning in 1984 really did take everything to the next level, as far as style, class, sophistication. Fewer people had wealth but if you were wealthy you fly higher in the 80's. That's what Wall Street was about. Just a brilliant film that it caught that moment in history. And now in hindsight the 90's was a wonderful time to grow up, this issue for me being a boy in the 90's was I just didn't realize how much I had at the time. My elder Friend Randy talks about being a kid in the 50's. He says I can remember 1959, There was just wealth everywhere.. I mean we didn't realize it at the time, but it's true, there was just much wealth and abundance..
@@rainbowwarrior2635good comment 👍
Great memories
@@joeshmoe9978 Thanks!😘
I remember waiting in line with my dad during this time. I also remember remarking to my dad, "Dad, do you think gas will go over a dollar a gallon?" "It might son.", he said. LOL
It was still under a dollar a gallon as late as ‘96 or ‘97.
@@russellgrimes3491You can track the decline of this country to basically gas prices. That started the price.gouging. Houses, education, health care etc. Now people can afford nothing.
Gas is back up to $5.99 for a gallon of regular unleaded here in Arcata, California.
it was under 3 dollars when TRUMP was president .. GOD BLESS TRUMP ....
joe biden was still in office in 1979 and look what he has done to resolve this issue. ??????
@@JesusChrist2000BCthen I guess you’ve been tracking it back to 2005 then! I know I have! Go look at fuel prices in W.’s second term!
I love being a kid in the 70 s,who else is 59 years old?
I was 11yrs old
You are too childish
close. 61 I loved growing up in the 60’s and 70’s
I was looking for my 76 Mercury Cougar xr7 that I would be buying from my dad in 2 more years
The 70’s was an awesome decade to be a kid.
Probably not the best decade to be an adult though.
Thank you….. I lived in Maryland after Vietnam 1969-70. Gas crisis twice, 1973 then 1979. I am 75 years young now 😊 no fights, we were a country that our parents fought for. The boomers were brought up by the greatest generation ❤
You know what they say about tough times and tough people… and good times who create weak people…
the sheer genius and vision to film something as benign as people filling up their cars. had NO idea of just how much of a national treasure this would be..I mean, the 1979 Honda Civic?!!!! Dam man!! documenting the gas crisis of 79?!was a "run win the bank" situation. thank you my dude..
I think he had every idea how valuable the video would be, that’s why he went through all the considerable trouble and expense at the time.
@@new2000car I would like them to do neighborhoods videos like in CA or other and inside more stores and fast food inside people eating .. even people at the banks inside or even the DMV maybe for effect too. Christmas at many stores and people relaximg in the front yard or playing and in fun . A home caught on fire often happens in the 70s with citizens standing around curious of it . Police doing business in arresting maybe for those times as a great observation .
You can still do this while EV cars are still in their infancy
"the sheer genius and vision to film something as benign as people filling up their cars." Sheer genius? Good grief, it was a historic gas crisis FFS. There wasn't anything benign or normal about this. What they were filming was completely abnormal and note worthy at the time. It was a historic event. Which is why someone was filming it. Figure it out!
@@ButterfatFarms sorry, it was more of an overall opinion. there are a lot of videos filmed in the 70's of ordinary people doing ordinary things. that is what I was referring to. guess I shouldve left this comment on the other videos.
Love these videos! All the unique cars that had character and now every car basically looks the same.
That's right cars with their own identity back then compared to today's robots.
Why I love my PT Cruiser it don't look like nothing today and even when it was new nothing else looked like it.
I'll take today's cars that can go 200k easily without ANY service (other than fluids). Not a chance in hell that was remotely possible back then.
One thing that would frequently happen is people would wait an hour, or two, or three, only to have the station run out of gas. The lines were crazy long. The resolution came when a minimum purchase amount was instituted to stop people from getting in line only to top off an already near full tank, (if I remember correctly it was 10 gallons) and days were set where you could only buy based on the last digit of your license plate number. In Dallas the stations put out alternating colored flags for the day you could get gas based on your number. The lines disappeared overnight.
Oh man! I forgot about the license plate number thing! I remember my dad giving me a DIME to wander around looking for a pay phone to call home and tell mom to eat without us because we were still in line for gas.
I remember we had EVEN/ODD days in Pennsylvania.
@@tricatfilms6136 I don't remember there being any crisis in 1979
My father said the same thing about the last digit of your license plate. What did that mean for vanity plates?
Smart people went to small rich towns to get gas
People were skinny back then.
I remember everyone was nobody didn't go to fast food places everyday like now.I remember being a skinny little 5 year old boy I miss those times.
Dang, the guys looked good back then.
No High Fructose Corn Cancer in the food and soft drinks. Pure cane sugar in the soda
Если что обращайтесь мы здесь в России до сих пор такие худые)))
@@fila1478 давно на улице были?))
I was 9 in 1979..growing up in the seventies and early eighties was quite GLORIOUS. I felt for that fella pushing his car..lucky for him it was a bug.
If you were 9yrs old then your about the same age as me in 2023.
Pushing a bug is just part of being in the club, similar to having 9 people in a bug. You just had to be there.
I was 8.
in 79 i was 11..with a pretty serious and expensive space invaders habit..luckily i got off it and moved to coke for the mid 80s
I was 7, Gen X like many of you.
That charger with the hidden headlights makes me wanna cry. So does the Trans Am.
Talk to your Doctor
@@rayosullivan4398He just misses the days of pure muscle cars
@@anaccount7923 I'm just kidding I love the old mussel cars had a mustang and a maverick it was a bit of a pile but I liked it my first car in the US paid 250 and drove it for two years
@@rayosullivan4398 If only the car market was how it was 30 years ago, now you’re lucky to pick up a base 5.0 stang for msrp
Timestamp then!
I can not thank you enough to provide us this beautiful video. Took me back in time and got tears in my eyes.
Pure bliss. Not one electric car in sight!
It’s a Gas Station… only reason an ⚡️eV⚡️would be there is for lottery, vap juice or the bathroom! eV owner is at Wholefood or Starbucks 🔌 plugged in enjoying the fresh air on the patio drinking coffee!
@@BRBNWolfdrinking a 7 dollar cup of coffee with a dead battery
@@BRBNWolfand then off to the gloryhole to suck off the diesel truckers. 😂😂😂😂😂
wtf is wrong with electric cars? Your ignorance?
@@xploration1437Nothing since they are fun to drive. The amount of damage they do in mining ⛏️ and the unstoppable fires 🔥 oh, and they are basically a throw away vehicle when they quit working. Other than the lies being told about them being earth friendly, nothing is wrong with them! Apart from that, as a car enthusiast myself, I say they are fun. Are they practical? Nah, not really.
Looked like everyone and their mother had a muscle car back then. What a time
I don’t consider a 1980 Tran am a muscle car. You need to realize that in 1975 the federal government mandated all passenger cars to be equipped with power robbing catalytic converters. And during that time dual exhaust from a v8 engine was illegal to have in a car built after 1974. So, a 1980 Trans am produced at 180 hp from a turbo v8. Not the stuff of dreams. It wasn’t until late in the 1980s around 1988 or so that automotive engineers were able to progress with better technology to equip cars with true dual exhaust once again while still meeting government emission standards. And it been progressing ever since which is why we have 747 Hp Dodge challengers today.
@@jogmas12 We don't care.
@@ButterfatFarms then live in the false hood that cars built between 1975 and 1986 were muscle cars when they were not!! And I sure hope you didn’t mind a little bit of factual automotive history
@@jogmas12 . Yes, BUT, a mid 70s Trans Am definitely fits in the muscle car category now. It's got the look, and the same set up and underpinnings as the earlier ones. Plenty of them have been built up to badass level. Now if you're talking bone stock, I agree with you. Mid 70s to early 80s was the turd years,,,,from the factory.
@@jogmas12 you don't consider a trans am a muscle car because you describe things how you see fit to make yourself sound intelligent.
This is an excellent, well-preserved footage of American history. It was as if this happened just yesterday.
I was thinking how good the image quality is for something back then.
It takes me back to simpler times.
That too.
I love how the Car Wash lane is wide open and not a one will pay the $3.50to not sit in that line! They knew a rip off and would not stand for it!
Lot of classic cars. Very neat.
Despite the gas lines, the 70's were a great time.
Everything looks better in the mirror.
last good decade actually
@@nicklikesradio The '70s was great in America it was way better than it was now
Yes agreed, at least growing up as a kid back then was a fun time, I'm so glad I didn't have to grow up in this generation.
The 70s were absolutely a horrible time in the U.S. Jimmy Carter was president and you have to remember he was just as bad as Biden as far as inflation and gun laws. The difference between Carter and Biden is that Carter was just incompetent and not in the least bit malicious or compromised. Biden is destroying this country on purpose. He has been deeply compromised by our sworn enemies and all of this economic destruction and mental illness brought on by propaganda is being done by our enemies through Joe Biden.
So, the 70s were not a great time in this country. A loaf of bread was 3 times it's normal price. Carter was a good man and his heart was in the right place.
wow!!! I always wondered what a day in the life in the 1970's or 1980's was like. I'm deeply impressed with the patience everybody displayed in this video. Beautiful cars by the way. Good footage!!
I lived through the 80s and let me tell you nothing has changed
The 70’s was the best time ever. I lived in Oakland, Ca. Everything was black owned until the crack epidemic. Jobs that people could retire from were plentiful and the black and proud movement was in full swing off the heels of the black Panther party movement. The good old days for real
They were being no more patient then those in the 1~2 hour line gas lines after Hurricane Ian last year while not knowing if you'll have the gas to make it to the pump, or if any gas will still be left if you do. No fights, no yelling, no cutting in line just lots of people all in the same boat patiently waiting in line while running the AC and listening to the radio while surfing/txting/talking on the phone. Or those in a real pinch shutting the engine off each time the line moves again and they stop.
@@jogmas12 It Really hasn’t. Y’all STILL WHINING
@@James67851 Oakland was a different place. Grew up in Albany. SF was a beautiful City then. Not a wasteland where streets are toilets
2nd guy in the shorts was filling up like he was training his whole life for it
Now, there would be a shooting in less than 30 minutes. Everything was so clean and well kept, I had somehow forgotten what a better world we had, with better people... And never would I have imagined having so much fun watching people buy gas and set in line. To those who never knew this world, I'm sorry it got so messed up, you deserve better.
They don’t deserve better, they came to our great nation with their 3rd world culture and destroyed it forever!
If you lived this, you didn’t work hard enough to keep it. The problem was you. You were the world, and you squandered it with everyone else.
No wonder there's a line, the price is .80 a gal 🤣🤣
Good one!!
@@vampirerobot 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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BIDEN did that!
There was a gas shortage.
Wow. I was 3 years old that year. People are actually waiting patiently in line and NO cellphone distractions love it!!!!
That's because mobile phone did NOT exist back then.
@@automation7295 There were some but they weren't common. Surprised a bunch of people aren't on CB radios though those were trending then
*"People are actually waiting patiently in line"*
There were some impatient people in the 70's. Why do people pretending that people never got impatient during the 1970's?
*"NO cellphone distractions"*
While NO cellphone distractions, there were still other distractions in the 70's.
Every decades had other distractions, early 1900's and 1910's had distractions trams and horse and people walking on the road, but cars were tin cans and limited to like 8 - 15 mph. Also some cars during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's had car phone, so there were some phone distractions back then. Why do people act like 1970's were a 100% perfect decade with no crashes and no distractions?
I turned 3 in 1979. I can’t believe how long the line for gas was! It was definitely a different world back then. No fighting, no cell phones, people talked to each other.
This was during the Gas Crisis when Carter was president. The Middle East OPEC Countries boycotted the US. This was probably a Friday, because the government banned gas on weekends.
This is just pure gold. I haven't seen this in so long. I seen cars I haven't seen since I was a kid. I'm 55 yrs old and I was just a little kid then. My dad owned a gas station back then. I used to help him pump gas and do oil changes. Patching tubes in tires was fun for me. The old oil cans you had to use a church key to open them. This brought back so many memories. Thank you for uploading this. Made my entire month!
Wow! Great comment. Thanks for sharing!
A time when everyone owned their own cars. Not the banks.
People still bought car with 4 year loans back then. I know, I was one of them
Nope it was like today people financed cars new and used,they still were expensive..Interest rates were higher then,making it costly..By 79 they had 5 year loan terms vs 69 3 year terms....
Uncle had a new car dealership back then..Most people financed like today! Even used! That 150,000 mile 1967 used Valiant that was priced at $900 is $4000 in todays money.
True cars jumped up in price especially since the so called pandemic of 2020!
In the 1980s our family had 4 vehicles at one time. Two drivers. All paid for. One was a 1974? pickup that my dad seldom drove. They were all used and beaten badly. He'd switch some out but rarely. We had a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible at least since 1970 thru the late 80s. It was parked next to the detached garage in the alley in later years. Probably not driveable. Every so often a guy walking down the alley would ring the back doorbell and ask if it was for sale. I thought it was a piece of junk. These days no one would bother to ask if it was for sale. In 1984, our 1982 Chevy Monte Carlo was the first car my dad financed.
That's nonsense. People still bought cars with loaned money of the bank. Nothing has changed.
You are more correct than people are giving you credit for. It was far more likely for people to outright be able to buy a car on a regular salary back then than now, and you could own it.
Now given they didn't last as long, but it was still much more of a win situation in general. 👍
Love this video I was born in 1979. Where has the time gone. This world is in a mess.
blame the boomers and gen x lol millennials and gen z havent been alive long enough to fuck it up. the decline started happening around here tbh with the rapid stagflation and changing socioeconomic climate.
👋I was born in 1948 and I agree,since 2020 world is hurting like never seen in 70 yrs 👀
So glad I can see what it’s like to live back in the good ole times wish I was born in the 70s and the 80s must feel amazing.
So why was this GOOD??? This is like recharging an electric car.
@@johnp139 not this very moment but the moment in the 70s
The 80s WERE amazing!
Owned a lot of these cars .
Matchbox that is. I was 3.
Love those cars and colours.🤩
👍
If you notice, the majority of cars in the last decade were all darkened gloomy colors, like grey, black with shades of grey, some white, but most all are dark colors with very little color tones.
My mom was told to be aware of a scam that was going around during the 79 gas crunch, imagine that your at the back of the line waiting for gas and some guy was walking to each car claiming that he works for the gas station and asking how much gas do you want and he would take your money saying this would speed things up. Of course you he would take off with every ones money. Leaving many people screwed.
Back then most gas station employees had a uniform
My mom actually fell for this scam.
@@Jleed989what if that guy fake that uniform?
Yeah, I remember that. I was 20, and had a 1974 Nova SS, gold with black racing strips. Look at that, gas only
.86 and I think cigarettes were around .35 per pack.
Look how civil people were back then. The 70s were so cool. No cell phones, no social media, no debit cards and pins and apps.
They were the good old days for sure. I wonder how people would react if we had this happen today
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And it was like a huge trivia game for remembering the make and models of cars. Loved the video!
WOW!...So Cool!...I'd wait in line with all those cool cars any day.
You probably wouldn't like the huge clouds of leaded gas fumes wafting from them though...
Nah
This is why my grandparents always got gas in the morning and told me to do the same. We may be experiencing this very soon again.
Damn right! I’m located in SWFL where Hurricane Ian hit us hard. We got a taste of what can go wrong when those that did not prepare attack those who did.
No
Not if Trump is president. We have plenty of our own oil and pipelines, if the Dems would let us use it.
Looks like this might have been recorded with a portable VCR. Its cool that the early adopters of this format recorded stuff like this and that some of it still survives. This was pre-camcorder, to get footage like this you'd have to lug around a bulky multi-piece setup (the VCR and the camera components, sometimes even the mic, were separate), or shoot on something like Super8 which would need to be developed. The fact this person even bothered to record something like this back then is something to be grateful for. Its neat to look back and see what people were driving back in 1979. Clearly, much nicer looking cars than what we have now, more colorful too.
If you notice, the majority of cars in the last decade have been all dark gloomy colors, like grey, black with shades of grey, some white, but most all are dark colors with very little bright color tones.
It looks like b roll for a news story.
@@Some_One_One Every so often I'll see a bright green or yellow car and it sticks out so much with every other car being dark gloomy colors like you mentioned. I wonder why it is like that today?
Nope...it was a Super 8 with sound track.
Some damn nice old muscle cars in there. 😮
Love seeing all the types of cars.
My first real job was at a gas station pumping gas, as a senior in high school in 1979. I'll never forget how the lines of cars were so long they backed up into the street.
Why were the lines so long?there wasn't many gas stations or ??
@@JohnnycarameloGL In 1979 OPEC cut oil production which caused a bit of a gasoline shortage.
I remember as a kid these days, my Dad would switch the license plate from my Mom's car to his so he could get gas, it was odds and evens numbers on your license plate certain days only. They never really checked the registration back then.
@@JohnnycarameloGL Jimmy Carter
Seeing the photo hut in background brings back memories, all the cars are different also, now days most cars look alike poor guy on the motorcycle waits hour then gets a gallon gas
I was 9 years old and my grandfather managed a SOHIO gas/service station. My brother that was 4 years older, and myself, would actually help out my grandpa by working the full service line. Pumping gas, checking oil, tire pressure and throw in a good window cleaning. Our uncle Jr (Red) was the mechanic. Our grandmother did the books. I still remember that push button adding machine she used with the pull handle and that cash register. Getting to use the register as a kid made me feel so grown up. There was a time they thought they had a big rat in the shop knocking boxes off the shelves and setting off the alarm at night. It ended up being a squirrel. I was there the day they found it. I never seen my grandpa and uncle move so fast before or again. We all ran out actually. All except for James. He was a local guy with a really big heart. He would always bring White Castles for everyone and just hang out all the time. He just chased that squirrel around until it eventually ran out of the shop. I'll never forget any of this.
I love 70 ies. Plenty of colors. 1979 BEST year for DISCO MUSIC.
Ah yes, back in the day when people only drove pickup trucks if they actually needed them, and you only saw them on city streets about once every 25 cars or so
The reason trucks sold in the 1980's. Was to get around the EPA horse shit regulation of Gas Mileage requirements for cars..
these same people kept telling you Peek oil was reached.. We found 20 Billion barrels more in 10 years. It was all made up. Sugar Shortage. Paper Shortage. Coffee Shortage. Then they hit the jack pot with oil Shortage. None of which was real. They made it up. Just like Climate Change is going to kill us all. If you don't spend $100 trillion dollars to save the planet. While 2 Billion people die from lack of heat and AC... As an economy grows on cheap energy...
There's a reason for that. Pickup trucks rode like a '70s work truck back then. Today your typical new pickup is both more luxurious and better riding than a Cadillac was in 1979. While still being a competent work truck. Go figure. What exactly is your point, is this a complaint? lol
@@ButterfatFarms Don't leave out. They get 2-3x the gas mileage as well.. As the average cracker box back then got 14 mpg...Without the AC on...
All the new giant trucks are owned by cops....
Regular or regular unleaded ?? 😂😂😂😂
What a wonderful variety of mid to late every day 70's cars.
I was only 4 in 1979 so seeing this made me realize what a better time it was back then. What the heck happened to society?!?!
High speed internet.
Waiting for an hour to get gas was a better time???? You are DELUSIONAL!!!!!
Smartphones.
Better?? How?? People were the same as today but there was just more bullshit you could say and nobody would call you out because nobody has a way of verifying anything so you could walk around pretending to be a mechanic or welder or whatever and nobody could say your wrong I dunno I guess that's what I remember most about back then is how full of it people could be back then
@@captaincrunch7944 Technology has made people full of it in a different way. Never in our history were kids claiming to be more educated than their grandparents.
If you ask me, a few arrogant liars beats a generation of Americans with "I'm better than you" syndrome.
I was 3 in 79. Still wish we had those gas prices today 😅
Yep I vaguely remember when I was really little dad pulling up to the gas line in the Dodge Aspen cursing Jimmy Carters name.
🤣🤣🤣
Lol! I was in 2nd grade in Texas in line with my Dad too. He was cussing Carter as well. I remember it being about $0.80/gal, and he thought the world was ending. He had a 55 gal drum he filled up in the back of the truck too. I still remember that chit.
Jimmy Carter; a nice guy for the wrong time.
Reagan saved the country for a little while, but could only do so much. After that the corrupt Deep State took over. And here we are.
(Jim Caveizel on Ronald Reagan, a good vid)
@@jgringo5516My dad couldn't stand Carter 😂
It wasn't Carter's fault.
My mom had a 1969 Camaro convertible that year and worked at a convenience store. Miss those days.
I bet she was loved by many.
oh thank heaven for 7-11's
@@rollin19 I was 15 when she sold it years later. I cried
Look at all those old classic cars !! At the time i was driving a 70 Elcamino. Bought it for 2k and now you couldn't touch it less than 25k !! Nuts !!
Holy moly, The amount of boats and land yachts in this era, couch on wheels.. Driving a Cadillac and more or less a Lincoln in those days meant you've made it . I was 5 y/o then.
So colorful cars. Not only grey silver and white like today.
And that primer plain glossy grey in the last couple of years. I don't understand who would want that color! Maybe an old hotrod that's primer grey though.
No, but a lot of brown and gold.
I wish these videos were an hour long! LOVE this virtual time machine, Vampire! Thank you SO MUCH for these priceless uploads! There's a special place, in Heaven, for you, I'm sure, and it's full of nostalgia!
That's a really nice comment, thank you 🙂
@@vampirerobot Much love!
What? A special place in heaven? For uploading a video to CZcams? Get tf outta here!
@@alanduncan1980 tf is your problem? They were happy and just expressing it and you had to bitch about it, which is all I see you do in these comments.
This looks older than 1979. This was my first job when I was 16, and gas was not that cheap. I sure remember the gas crisis. I worked at a BP in New Jersey, where the price per gallon was a dime cheaper than everywhere else. Boy, did we work hard.
Omg that poor guy pushing his car because it ran out of gas. Awww. Everyone waited patiently to the point they ran out of gas.
OTOH, he was lucky it was a Bug.
Or maybe he does not want to destroy starter, starting on and off engine 100x times or just to save more gas 😁
Every day life in America from a time 50 years gone... Thank you for posting this!
A time traveler leaving a comment from 2029?
I wouldn't mind driving that old Civic hatchback the guy in the short shorts is filling up lol. And the yellow one at 3:22. Nice Camaro convertible at 3:29. Bunch of cool old cars from that time period.
Lol...that guy is something.
@@vampirerobot He used his rear bumper as a cup holder for his cup of soda while he was pumping. I wish there was a way to find out more about that guy, he’s a fascinating guy that would be in a world of hurt if he dressed and behaved that way today
@@mjoven1975 🤣🤣🤣 funny but not funny. Yes, you are absolutely spot on with your comment!
I saw that too. I loved those cars
I had a silver one that I drove for 30 years before the state made me junk it because it wouldn't pass the smog check...that was the best damn car! Cheap to run and maintain
Im amaze at how many different cars there was in those days i forgot, this brings back alot of good memories
The coolest thing to me is seeing all the different car colors! I remember brown, maroon, dark and light blue, green, and tan cars. Now it seems most of them are white.
All your videos are amazing. I've been binge watching tonight.....takes me back to those simpler times.... I was 24 in '79. Even those gas lines are preferable to some of the things that go on today.
You're 68 in 2023
I was 28 in the summer of '79 with 4 boys 9, 5, 4 & not yet 1 year old. My husband was so good to me he told me about the lines but I never lifted a finger to pump my own gas until he fell I'll 15 years ago. I was home with my boys...nostalgia for sure! Glory days. So sweet! Guys were guys and girls were girls. I loved being treated like a woman. He opened doors for me too. Lord come quickly💙🙏🇺🇸
A lot of older people get on CZcams this much I'm learning lol - I was 9- I guess I'm semi old
@@joycerichardsom3401 careful what you meant wish for he may come sooner than you like
waiting for you to become fertilizer for earth@@joycerichardsom3401
Omg look at all those classic cars some probably survived I love these videos
I saved a '73 and a '74. In my garage right now.
A lot them have been made into Toyota Prius
@@CarsandCats u have pictures
@@marshallhemphill7361 Click my name I have a channel with them.
One of those old cars reminded me of my pops. I miss him.
I don’t remember a gas shortage in 1979. But I do remember the gas shortage of 1974 and the ridiculously long lines at the gas stations. ⛽️
Sequals are never as memorable as the original 😂
@@manthony225: Perhaps it was worse in some states than others. I do vaguely recall the odd and even gas rationing.
I love and dearly miss every single car in this video! Oh, and the 1970's too! I need a time machine!
I remember going w my dad to get gas. We would pull up to the station and the bell would sound off alerting the gas ⛽️ station attendant to come out and put gas in our car. You pay them cash. Get your change. They would also ask if you wanted your windows squeezed cleaned.
They don't do that anymore. Your on your own now.
Great Vd , remember those days long lines, then u couldn't get gas on certain days ,they went by your degits on your plates , people would switch plates to get gas !
I was 8 years old when this was happening, I remember your day to get gas was based on an even or odd plate #. My parents took us on a cross-country road trip the summer of '79. Bad timing in my opinion. It was fun to see the cars I remember in my early childhood years. My parents had a Ford Country Squire station wagon and a Buick Skylark. These videos show just how nice society used to be. Civil, calm, no emotion mental crisis. People knew how to behave in public.
100% right
I'm the same age .. I remember a lot of things from 1979 but this is kind of vague only my parents talking about it a little bit later on after it was over. I guess this is in Maryland down by DC I grew up in Anne Arundel county.. a bit closer to Baltimore and Annapolis
Im in car heaven. I have such a thing for 70s cars. Esp Novas and El Caminos.They were noisy and fantastic :0))
I always wanted a Nova with big tires in the back. Now that I could afford one, it just doesn't seem practical.
I wonder why "men" ( no offense men), like to buy the Lamborghini's, etc when they hit 40+. Sure they can now afford them, yet I wonder don't they understand they look silly trying to act 20-30 yrs old?
The only women they are going to attract are young "gold diggers". Shame to work all those years to give $ away to younger female gold digger just to want to feel young.
Back to the cars. I was a kid but I thought the 70's era has the best cars and the best music.
Monte Carlos and Pontiac Grand Prixs were nice cars. I had a State Patrol auction car in 1982, it was a 440 interceptor Plymouth Gran Fury, 1977 Squad. It ran like a scalded dog, passed everything but a gas station! God I miss the 70s & 80s!!!
I loved the tiny pick up's of that time. Toyota hi-lux, Mazda B-1800, Datsun Hustler, Ford Courier, Subaru Brat, Isuzu, etc.
What a beautiful cars!! I love this video. Thanks!
Lol.. Bell bottoms! My mom and dad have loads of pictures of them wearing that! ✌️☮️🧥👖
CARS OF INTEREST! ENJOY..FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
3:13 (L)Lane 67 Cougar XR-7
3:54 77 Transam (silver)
3:32 67 Camaro(red)
3:35 67 Camaro conv(black)
3:44 76 Pontiac Lemans(blue)
3:51 74 Chevy Monte Carlo(blue)
3:57 75 Buick century(beige)
4:26 69 Mercury Cougar(blue)
4:32 68 Dodge Dart (green)
4:37 68 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442?(black)
4:39 67 Chevy Impala SS?(white)
5:12 70 Dodge Charger SE(blue/wht top)
5:28 70 Dodge dart post(background)
6:03 73 Mustang Grande(harvest gold)
6:04 75 Pontiac Ventura 4D(brown)
6:06 76 Buick Apollo (brown behind it)
6:08 78 Ford Granada(blue)
6:13 76 Buick Century(brown)
6:17 69 Olds 442!!! (metallic Bronze)(only glimpse of dual exh. :(
6:40 75 Ford Maverick GRABBER(blue/wht stripe)
7:21 75 Ford Maverick GRABBER#2 (metallic bronze/wht stripe)
8:08 75 Cutlass supreme(burgundy)
9:28 77 Camaro Rally Sport(white)
9:30 76 Firebird(blue)
9:47 74 Pontiac Lemans
9:53 67 Ford Mustang (green)
9:56 77 Ford Thunderbird(white)
10:03 71-73 Plymouth duster(red)
10:13 74 Mustang II(blue)
10:43 75 Chevy Camaro(burgundy)
10:47 77 Plymouth Duster(beige)
10:47 67 Pontiac Lemans(purple in background)
12:42 76 Dodge Duster(beige)
13;57 76 Chevrolet Monza(burgundy)
14:37 75 Chevrolet Nova(blue)
14:53 72 Chevrolet Camaro(brown)
14:54 69 Pontiac Firebird(blue)
15:02 76 Plymouth Volare(green)
15:08 73 Ford Mustang grande conv(green wht/top)
15:27 76 Chrysler Cordoba(I HAVE ONE! Gold)
17:05 73 Chevrolet Monte Carlo(blue)
17:14 74 Ford Grand Torino(harvest Gold)
Sadly there was only ONE AMC and that was an old 70-71 Ambassador at the pump, comment below if you see it!
YOUR WELCOME!!!
Spotted a gremlin.
@@johncameron2241 Yes! There was an AMC Pacer too but I was more focused on MUSCLE or PSEUDO MUSCLE CARS and their ilk. I was praying I would see a REBEL MACHINE but even 7 years later after they were sold new, sadly they were so rare that even in a lot of 70s videos I still have yet to spot one!
At 4:39 that's a white 65 Chevy Impala Coupe.
You missed the Honda Civic
@@knerduno5942 Oh I missed a lot of Japanese cars!, There were early Toyota Celicas, accords, Even AMC Gremlins, But I was focusing on American 2 door specific Muscle or muscle like cars.
Thanks for posting a great piece of history.
Happy you liked it.
Look at those magnificent cars. Each one looked distinctly different.
My grandparents used to own a small service station in Florida they just so happened to be unlucky enough to own it in the gas crisis. To quote my grandmother "We couldn't even turn on the pumps for us to fill up our gas without at least 23 people pulling in."
13:17 My Mom has the same '77 Celica GT Liftback LOL! We need to restore it. She had it since '78.
I was 21 and lived this and the oil shortage in 1973 was worse, we had rationing.
So refreshing to not see anyone with their face stuck on their phone. Those were the days!
we had that brown civic in a 4 door. my uncle borrowed it, took the wheels off, and drove it on an old abandoned train track lol
The days of no air conditioning. It was like an oven in those cars with the leather seats in the summer time. Notice every window is rolled down. Folks got it made today even with the higher prices at the pump.
We had AC but it blew warm air and was mostly unreliable at full blast. Rolling down the window was the better option it seemed. I lived in Memphis where the heat index was usually well over 110 in the summer so that may be the reason why.
Huh? WTH? Air conditioning was the norm on all the used 60s and 70s cars my folks owned at the time. It was the norm. These are people waiting a couple of hours to buy gas hoping they wont run out and there'll still be some left when the get to the pump. That's why their windows are down. Figure it out, smart guy.
@@VintageToyTheatre I remember '70s cars with R-22 based AC blowing ice cubes when they were working right and properly charged up. We had this AC thing figured out WAY before the 70s.
We had toyotas celicas in the 70s and the AC was always having issues. If it did work the car would overheat not long after. That's why I remember our windows always being down.
AC was pretty prevalent in that era, even on a lot of 60s cars, maybe 30%. Now it's very odd to have a newer car without it. And it seemed colder back then, have seen actual frost on vents back then!
2 quick gas line stories: I bought a 6-pack of beer and realized that I needed gas.I got in line,a long ass line.By the time it was my turn,I was halfway through beer number 4.
Another time me and my buddies got in line real early,like 6:30 in the morning.Somebody lights up a joint and passes it around.One guy's girlfriend goes out and gets donuts for us.What a 'gas' pardon my pun.
Yes! Those were indeed different times.
@@ant-1382 19 years old in 1979 and we ruled the world.
I can imagine,standing in line back then,guy lights up a cigarette..."would you like one?" or "Need a light?"
You could smoke anywhere,not that it was healthy breathing in people's smoke and the carbon the cars put out is a lot more than today.
The problem is there's a a lot more vehicle on the road,so more carbon on top of that,people ate a lttle bit very few fat people. Nowadays people literally eat carbon by the buckets,more than half of people are over weight and people are sick!
More processed junk foods,false ads,fast food places etc.
While the fruit rots away in the store and that's the truth folks.
Ask yourself why so many get cancer.
I've heard many crazy stories from my parents who graduated hs in 82 that were similar. My dad said hed be like 10 11 years old walking to the corner store buying beer and cigarettes for his mom and dad (my grandparents) with a note by them to get it lol. My mom said she'd go to a restaurant after school with friends and buy pitchers of beer not getting carded. My uncle saying he'd be drinking and smoking at hs football games and getting busted by cops but busted then was just being told to pour it out lol
@@rollin19 Yeah, about that. Gas stations had No Smoking signs in 1979 too.
Marketing now calls a station wagon a Crossover or SUV. Thank you for the video, brings back memories of polite people.
So much prettier back then with so many different car colors . .so much better than the sea of black, white and grey today.
It’s like that today because you unfortunately have to pay more for color now. Most people don’t want to pay a lot for a car they’ll just take to work.
The best part is seeing all the old cars new again and everywhere. I was a sophomore in highschool in 79.
This video is a time capsule gem! Motion cameras were lousy back then unless you could afford to shoot 35mm and computers were awful, expensive and scarce. Leaky alkaline batteries instead of the new stuff we have today. No internet and we survived. Kids played outside and used their imaginations. We got along just fine without cell phones. We navigated via paper maps and made it there. We had paper ballets that were counted on election day. Far less intentional and successful crushing of small businesses. Cars weren't cheap but most weren't crazy expensive like now.
I worked at Southwest Leasing in Anaheim, California during this DOT-induced "gas crunch". We had our own "76 Union" gas pump. People would be driving down the 5 freeway and see me pumping gas with no line anywhere in sight! And gas was 76 cents a gallon on the way to a shocking $1! I just bought a 1979 Cadillac Coupe deVille to remember those days in comfort.
ARCO stations always seemed to have enough gas back then
I could smell the leaded gas and fumes from the cars even by watching 😂
Wow lots of classic cars!
I worked a BP station after school during the gas crisis of 1979... Odd and even license plate numbers determined what day you could get gas. The lines were endless, and I all of the sudden became popular with people who barely knew me hoping I could some how get them their gas without waiting... I was in NY, so the lines were not always as peaceful as this wonderful video!! @4:25 I spy a Cougar and a Charger!! Two cool cars of that era!!
You got that right not peaceful at all
New York was a gigantic shithole in the 70's and 80's,, totally riddled with crime. That's one of the few places where things have actually changed for the better.