A little OT... Found some neat old pictures my Dad and his uncle took on a 2 week car trip in '51 or '52. In addition to normal vacation stuff like mountains and rivers, there are a fair number of other shots of things. Several show my Dad's '39 ford at gas stations, National park entrances, state road signs, and out in the country off the road since they camped out of it mostly instead of hotels. My Dad was 18-19 at the time.
There is a great one of the uncle using one of those pump-up gas blow torches to heat a frying pan for supper and the car is behind him with cups and pans sitting on the running board! The trunk is open and there's a 5 gal gas can and a oil funnel visible.
Another interesting one shows the car parked at a gas station and the attendant is filling it up with Texaco "firechief" gas. The other pump at the station is marked "skychief". I assume they were different octane so what was my Dad getting?
Jeff in ND