Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: petrol station

Josie patiently waiting while I take a photo of one of my favourite antique petrol stations, in Sussex. The car dates the photo to 1992-ish, and I have a feeling the station may have sadly bitten the dust by now. As a point of geeky interest, Josie was a Mark I Landcrab (Morris 1800) from 1967. The Mark I had a number of lovely design details which were lost from later models, probably to save costs. These included chunky chrome door and handbrake handles, plus a split-bench front seat. I recently found that these seem to have lived on a little longer on Australian utility models than they did in the UK, which might be a useful lead if you're looking for spares! If I were a Mark II or III owner, I'd be sorely tempted to carefully store the plastic parts and replace them, not forgetting the delightful indicator stalk with the green light on the end! Scanned from a batch of old prints with my surprisingly short-lived Epson 4490.

One of my favourite antique petrol stations, Sussex, circa 1992. Sadly, I think it is no more.

Weirdly, Kazakhstan is littered with brand spanking new petrol stations like the one in the background here. Not one of them is open. The rusty old places like we're actually in here are usually open and staffed, but they fairly seldom have any fuel. Or anything better than the 80 octane stuff that goes in old Soviet cars. We sought anything from 91-100 (yes, we saw 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 98, and 100 during our trip!) but often there was none. On this occasion, the woman running the place had a few 20-litre plastic bottles in a shed, and allowed us 10-litres each of whatever was in those. The cars were pretty sluggish on 91, especially as we gained altitude later on in Kyrgystan. The Micra's emission control light came on more than once, although it had been doing that across Western Europe too, after I'd been running it on V-Power 97/98 for a while to get it cleaned out (and to give it fun extra oomph :) I still wonder why V-Power is 100 in some countries. Feel cheated back home!

A poor old ZIL-130. Fear not, surviving examples are still pretty much ubiquitous on CIS countries' roads.

Really just dumped, not set up for the photograph. Not this one, anyway!