11-30-2011, 01:53 PM | #1 |
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"A" gas ration
Got my "A" type gas ration sticker the other day. Where's the correct place to position it on my 36's windshield?
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11-30-2011, 02:13 PM | #2 |
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Re: "A" gas ration
Lower right hand corner (passenger side) of the windshield. Do you also have the card. No card No gas!!!
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11-30-2011, 03:31 PM | #3 |
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And I thought I was old...
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11-30-2011, 03:54 PM | #4 |
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I think it varied by state, but the lower right corner of the windshield was apparently the most common location (that's where I have mine).
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11-30-2011, 07:18 PM | #5 |
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You usually see them in the lower right corner of the windshield but I believe they are supposed to be mounted on the window nearest the tank fill.
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11-30-2011, 07:39 PM | #6 |
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11-30-2011, 07:57 PM | #7 |
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try google... I found them on the net, printed my own, messed with them a little bit to make them look old & worn, tore off a little jagged corner (or two), stuck them on, and it looks like they've been there 'forever'. Never mind that one of my cars is a 47 & would never have had one. No one has ever questioned it in the 8-10 years I've had it.
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12-01-2011, 09:37 AM | #8 |
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I got mine at http://inspectionsticker.net He has all kinds of neat stickers.
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12-01-2011, 09:59 AM | #10 |
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We didn't have a car so my parents traded the gas stamps for other stamps that were needed to buy certain other commodities. I think butter was one of them. Remember buying margarine (which was white) and adding a package of yellow powder to it to make it look right. Now I'm giving away my age. LOL
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12-01-2011, 11:48 AM | #14 |
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When WW II broke out and my four older brothers entered the war effort, my dad told us 'that old '36 Ford pickup will not roll a tire until the war is over and God will bring my boys home'. toward the end of the war, my next older brother got old enough and joined the army.
when people tried to talk/buy from dad the ration stamps for tires and gasoline, he said 'I can't sell those to you, my boys need the gasoline and tires overseas.' My oldest brother was in Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, one in Gasoline tanker at Normandy, one in marines at Iwogima, one in air force on the ground stateside, one in the army stateside. They all came home safely. Thank you Jesus, Fordman I was in the Texas State Guard (not National Guard) because I was not old enough to join the army. After the war, one of my brother handed me a piece of paper and said, 'Sign this! you are joining the the National Guard'. I said I'm not old enough. He said you are with Dad's approval. I questioned, What if he does not sign it? He said, He already signed it! |
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My father owned a gas station during WWII which was the last station heading out of Salt Lake City, UT towards the SLC airport and points west.. The SLC airport had been taken over by the US Army Air Corps so dad had a lot of GI customers, most of which had plenty of gasoline stamps because many of the training sites were located out in the desert areas to the west of SLC..
At the time the state of Utah had very strict liqueur laws which required a person to have a State liqueur license, a non-resident of the state could not get such a license, this meant that the military people were stuck with Mormon beer... 3.2% .. My father was a very cleaver person, he had his Mormon customers get liqueur licenses with which they then purchased the monthly ration of whiskey. The whiskey was traded to my father for gas stamps, the whiskey was then traded to the servicemen for gas stamps.. The enterprise was slightly illegal, however, everyone got what they wanted.... I spent hours sitting in the small 12' x 12' office pasting stamps onto 8 x 11 sheets, which dad had to turn in every time he got a fuel delivery.
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Interesting stories.
I remember seeing ration stamps as a child. Wish I had saved them. Bruce Works good Lasts long time |
12-01-2011, 04:46 PM | #17 |
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We had a simular setup in New Zealand in the 70,s in the fuel crissis
It was called carless days. You had to alocate one day a week you could not use your car,the relivant day decal was stuck on the windscreen next to the rego sticker.a different colour for each day. Lawrie |
12-01-2011, 07:39 PM | #18 |
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I remember how my folks struggled with feeding the family. Mother came home sniffling one day. Someone had come out of the ACME and dropped a 5 pound bag of sugar in the street. I think she would have gone back after dark to scrape it up. Another day she can up from the basement singing loudly as she found a can of sugar she had forgotten. But we all had tough times and we made it thru.
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12-01-2011, 08:27 PM | #19 |
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The original 39 Ford we used to have that had it's original sticker had it in the back window on the side nearest the filler neck, a convertable rear window I bought has a "B" sticker in it, the glass has a 1939 date
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12-01-2011, 09:32 PM | #20 |
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so i guess with this said we are due for gas rationing again? it seem to happen every few century's. i do remember the gas crunch i the 70's my dad at that point had a 1970 olds that was not the best car to have with the reserve low as it was. he just before that had a 1965 Buick. i guess my 46 ford would of had one of those "a" cards too?
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