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Originally Posted by dozerbill72
The lack of gas stations on every corner back then was the biggie. I can tell you from past experience a cross country trip (or just to town and back in a big and open state) in one of these trucks with only the cab tank can make you a little nervous. Middle of Wyoming in the middle of the night theres not much for gas stops. I would of loved to had about 5 tanks on my truck.
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maybe in wyoming , I agree having past through a few times but up until the early seventies "gas crunch" , there was gas wars and many more stations and oil companies.
it would depend on when the tanks were installed and what was going on economically at the time. And even that does not cover all the reasons people put tanks on thier trucks.
My 68K20 has the saddle tanks, They were installed shortly after the truck was purchased in late april of 68. the reason being that the owner was always up in the mountans looking for gold and had a bad experience. You think finding an open gas station in Wyoming at night is bad, try the Huachuca Mts.,,, in the sixties.
I remember when diesle's first came out, it was such a PITA to go down on the interstate to get fuel. people had the standard tank, then spare tanks every where else on the vehicle and one guy had a 55 gallon drum of fuel sittng in the bed of his truck.