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Yes, Homberg is an historical gasoline brand from Wuppertal, Germany. 2013 in detmold an open-air museum of a 1950 village was rebuilt with a homberg gasoline station. https://www.lennep.eu/die-homberg-tanks ... enstrasse/
Hi there lycrafan2004; THANKS for giving perspective and color to these photos; I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT THE PRICE PER LITER SINCE I THOUGHT THESE WERE LIKE very RURAL AREA GAS STATIONSLycrafan2004 wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 4:26 pmYes, Homberg is an historical gasoline brand from Wuppertal, Germany. 2013 in detmold an open-air museum of a 1950 village was rebuilt with a homberg gasoline station. https://www.lennep.eu/die-homberg-tanks ... enstrasse/
And yes, the price is in Mark and not Euro.
Its very famous to collect old gasoline pumps and old oil can cabinets. get out all the tubes and pumps inside and you have a bar cabinet for all your glasses and bottles. http://www.tankdienst-suedwest.de/Verka ... kaufe.html you can buy old texaco, shell and gulf pumps for a lot of euros!















First: Quality of german cars was high but it is now not on the same level as it was. We had Diesel Gate here. You may remember that even the californian authorities had problems to register german cars in 2015 and following years because of manipulated electronic engine and exhaust controls. These years now are lost to comply with the exhaust and climate gas limits. The engineers that have spent time to manipulate the controls could not develop new controls to keep the climate gas limits or electric drives. and second now the chinese electric cars are floating the market...davislove wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 8:18 amHi there lycrafan2004; THANKS for giving perspective and color to these photos; I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT THE PRICE PER LITER SINCE I THOUGHT THESE WERE LIKE very RURAL AREA GAS STATIONSLycrafan2004 wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 4:26 pmYes, Homberg is an historical gasoline brand from Wuppertal, Germany. 2013 in detmold an open-air museum of a 1950 village was rebuilt with a homberg gasoline station. https://www.lennep.eu/die-homberg-tanks ... enstrasse/
And yes, the price is in Mark and not Euro.
Its very famous to collect old gasoline pumps and old oil can cabinets. get out all the tubes and pumps inside and you have a bar cabinet for all your glasses and bottles. http://www.tankdienst-suedwest.de/Verka ... kaufe.html you can buy old texaco, shell and gulf pumps for a lot of euros!still registering in the old german marks...I SPENT AN HOUR trying to figure out the price equivalent conversion in terms of our $ per gal equivalent....longstory short the old german marks were swapped out officially at 1.95583 euros; so the pump reads about $5.8/ gal and i know the price now [according to a service that you guys have that prices gasoline up to 20 times a day AT EVERY SERVICE STATION IN all OF GERMANY] is around $7.8/gal....THATS WHAT&WHY I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT THE DISCREPANCY.
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----and so mystery solved; these are old 'historic' recreation service stations pumps of yesteryear.....we too have old 'historic' gas/service stations/rest areas in rural towns and specially the old route 66 and in desert areas like arizona and nevada......
-JUST A FEW as complimentary since i really wanted to thank lycrafan2004 for the perspective on those photos that had me totally stumped
FYI here in my neck of the woods we are paying $3.15 FOR 'REGULAR' 87 octane...[works out to 0.71euros per liter] you guys in Germany use 96+ octane what we would call here 'PREMIUM' the price is ~<$4 a gallon....basically you all in Germany are paying essentially almost double or more EXCEPT the higher grades to what we pay here...most older american cars only need 87 octane like what i drive.....MOST fuel stations here sell 87, 89, 91/93 octane...You all have like 96 octane as a standard
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then again your european hi end cars need very high octane fuel...the average age of most cars here on the road here is ~12 1/2 years old or more and most of those only need 87 octane fuel. A lot of newer sports cars +hi-end european ones here DO NEED 93 octane so the price difference isnt as bad EXCEPT for that all fuels have up to 10% ethanol by law...there are very specialty gas stations(few and far) that sell non ethanol much higher prices that what i mentioned but no higher than 91 octane.
A report from the analysts at S&P Global Mobility explains, “The average age of vehicles in the U.S. continues to climb, reaching 12.8 years in 2025.” “New and used vehicle prices remain high, further encouraging vehicle owners to keep their cars longer and invest in upkeep rather than replacement.”
source; https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-ca ... 73666a6d9a
https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=FL
In the United States, the average octane fuel for American-made cars typically includes:
87 AKI (Anti-Knock Index) for regular unleaded gasoline, which is the minimum recommended for most fuel-injected vehicles.
88 AKI for mid-grade unleaded gasoline, suitable for vehicles that require a slightly higher octane rating.
91 AKI or higher for premium unleaded gasoline, which is recommended for high-performance vehicles or those with high compression ratios.
Most modern vehicles are designed to run on 87 octane, but some may require higher octane fuel for optimal performance.
you cant even buy 93+ octane which is your standard in germany and a lot of europe and south america!!!!
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