What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! 
I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-) 
If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours! I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! ; )
PS What would you like your "punishment" to be? Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!! 
Quite right Lizzie.My friend had a MK3 2000GXL...white with a black vinyl roof on a M plate 1973/4.His key would open just about every other MK3 if memory serves.
Another good example Optimist
, and on Cortina Estates the rear tailgate was so easy to open with about any key you could find!!!
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