i notice the large fuel city gas station/truck stop/car wash on industrial/riverfront drive is now selling gulf gas i thought al the gulf stations became chevron

rojinks Wrote:
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> i notice the large fuel city gas station/truck
> stop/car wash on industrial/riverfront drive is
> now selling gulf gas i thought al the gulf
> stations became chevron

Gulf Oil LP owns the rights to the name in the US, and markets Gulf gasoline in the Northeast:

[www.gulfoil.com]

And here's a news release about Fuel City:

[www.cspnet.com]

They started selling gas in Austin last year, in Houston this past April, and now they're coming back to Dallas. Fill'er up with Good Gulf, please!

i am glad to see gulf come back i am waiting for a small station to open around duncanville that i can patronize

There is a combination Gulf station/food mart near where I live in Powder Springs GA (suburban Atlanta).

When the two merged--I don't recall who bought whom-- market power/saturation issues required that they not market under both names in the same geographic region. (That statement is a vast oversimplification of the matter.) A similar market power break-up occurred about the same time with Shell and Texaco. Those types of prohibitions have eased some in recent years so we're seeing some of the old "brand names" come back in some areas. It's still the same gasoline.

Not to get too off topic, but the brand name Stuckeys is also showing up at some Dallas area gas/mini markets.

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I kind of miss Stuckey's, have seen a couple of former Stuckey's along 80...or maybe 20, east of Dallas.

The addition of the Gulf name can only add to the specialness of Fuel City.
Tacos are what drew us there first, and then there is the elote cart and those Texas longhorns.
Next time we go will check out the car wash.

Dallas is such a great place!

I had a Gulf credit card in the 1980s. In 1986, I moved overseas but had a New Jersey corporate mailing address. Gulf issued my next credit card that was only valid in the East and places like Ohio. When I tried to use it in Texas when I returned in 1988, I was turned down by Gulf stations here who used a different credit agency.
It seems that Gulf stations in Texas disappeared not too many years after 1988.

P.S. I always liked the National Lampoon spoof of the wizard Gandalf in "Lord of the Rings" by dubbing him Goodgulf in the book "Bored of the Rings."



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bug Wrote:
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> I kind of miss Stuckey's, have seen a couple of
> former Stuckey's along 80...or maybe 20, east of
> Dallas.
>
> The addition of the Gulf name can only add to the
> specialness of Fuel City.
> Tacos are what drew us there first, and then there
> is the elote cart and those Texas longhorns.
> Next time we go will check out the car wash.
>
> Dallas is such a great place!

Yes, I remember the Stuckey's locations on I-20 east of Dallas. Bring back the Pecan Log Roll!

From their Web site, the detailed history of Stuckey's:

[www.stuckeys.com]

This is a trivia question I heard awhile back-

Name the grades of Gulf gasoline. There were three of them.

BillB Wrote:
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> This is a trivia question I heard awhile back-
>
> Name the grades of Gulf gasoline. There were three
> of them.

I can think of Good Gulf, and No-Nox (Ethyl).

Gulftane?

Good Gulf, No-Nox, and...wasn't it just Supreme? Or was that Texaco? Lessee, Texaco was Fire Chief, Star Chief, and...?

No-Nox
Good Gulf
Gulftane

The motor oil was Gulfpride.

You can still buy Gulf Lite charcoal starter, but it doesn't have the Gulf logo anymore.

Can you still buy Gulfwax? It was a slab of wax that you could make candles out of. I don't know what other uses it had around the house.

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When I was 12, my uncle drove me through the Gulf Oil refinery down in South Texas. It was supposed to be the largest refinery in the world at the time. We drove through at night and it was quite a spectacle with everything lit up and flares burning off gas and lighting up the night sky. I can only imagine what Homeland Security would do if you tried to drive through a refinery these days. I also remember making my father fill up with Gulf gas so we could get a pair of those foam horseshoes they were giving away as a promotion for No Nox (knocks out the knocks...) I guess that was Gulf's effort to compete with tiger tails hanging from gas tanks.

Gulfwax is still available at Walmart and other fine stores.



Gulf Wax Household Paraffin Wax, 16 oz
A highly refined paraffin wax for sealing jams, jellies, and preserves, in open top containers and for home candlemaking.

good gulf no nox and gulfcrest



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i just remember texaco having two grades fire chief "regular" and sky chief "ethyl" at least thats all the texaco station had that i worked at in high school had. the oil was havoline and the grease was marfak we charged $2.00 to fix a flat no machines to break it down just hammers and dollys these were tube type tires tubless came out big about 1957 we also charged $2.00 to wash a car and it was spotless when finished most cars had black rubber floor mats and we paited them with a black substace the old man i worked for always double checked my work.