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 Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 09:15 AM |
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Golden Fleece petrol station
This was the Golden Fleece service station in Garbutt, Queensland. The photo is undated but it looks like the early 1970s.
Check out the beach buggy in the foreground.
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 09:17 AM |
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Cool Pic
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 10:59 AM |
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great old pic.. anymore?
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 06:27 PM |
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Sure, these aren't hard to find. This is another Golden Fleece, at Boyne River in QLD, 1975. Photo from the National Library.
Doesn't seem that long ago...
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 05:39 AM |
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what ever happened to all those Valiant Wagons
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 07:20 AM |
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what ever happened to all those Valiant Wagons
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My brother has one and so does another mate of mine. unfortunately neither will sell
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 07:47 AM |
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They had some good sorts working at Golden Fleece...
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vw54
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 09:07 AM |
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Bet she doesnt have a Golden Fleece LOL
nice socks yum
they say the sheep on top of the pumps go for a bout $1k nowdays on Ebay
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 03:47 PM |
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Thats my mother.. get your dirty filthy hands off her..
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(the sheep on the pump that is)
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 06:06 PM |
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My cousin has some Golden Fleece memorabilia. Old oil churns, the racks and the glass bottles the oil used sit in out the front of the servo and some
old signage. He plans on using it for shows when his 56 Split is finshed as a display.
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 06:24 PM |
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I remember the AMOCO Stations,they had a promo once and you could get a police hat with a flashing light on top
They were great!
there was no shortage of variety between the different oil companies.
67' deluxe
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 07:46 PM |
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Golden Fleece had "ACTIVE 8" which made it better than other petrols.... lol
FIREZONE was an upper cylinder lubricant....
in those little bottles...
I can remember going to a BP service station at Booral NSW ... [5 houses?? ] in My Fathers 60 Beetle
[Me unlicenced] and the petrol was 3/3 a Gallon...
three shillings and 3 pence.... lol
In the early days - the attendents used to wear uniforms
and a Cap... AMOCO was the last Big Brand to arrive from the USA with uniforms and a CAP...
[not a cheap cap like today either]
while the petrol was pouring into Your tank...
they would check Your 4 tyres with air and check Your Oil... so many cars back in those days could have mixtures of different brands of oil....
lol
Although Many people had their Favorite Brands....
Caltex - BP-COR - AMPOL - Golden Fleece - SHELL - Total -
Mobilgas - & not forgetting Your friendly Neptune Dealer..
I can't remember who sold CASTROL oil???
AMOCO had their "final Filter" at the top of the bowser where the hose connected to...
TOTAL was a late comer too...
You could MIX Super and Regular together with some pumps - I think BP Multimix - and Caltex ?...
which was a good Idea.. I always used 50/50 in Beetles etc....
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 07:50 PM |
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and nearly EVERY Service station out of the city sold and fitted New Windscreens
Most windscreens were fitted into rubber like VWs....
wherever there was a dirt/gravel road ..
You needed to be able to buy a New windscreen...
as the Safety Glass shattered on Impact....
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| posted on January 8th, 2009 at 07:56 PM |
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Mixing petro grades was a big thing however I remember once in a little town called Hillgrove (3 houses and a petrol pump) I filled up with standard
instead of super, 20 miles into Armidale and it was running like a hairy goat (and we all know how they run) so I tracked down a servo that sold me
some Shell A racing fuel to top up the tank, Did that make the Peugeot 404 perform, yea har, back to Newie in reckord time.
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