CA may have gotten egr and lower compression a few years earlier than the rest of the country. 1973 was the year performance took a big nose dive because of the EPA regs. Cats came a few years later. Maybe 77 give or take.
As for gas prices... I remember the Cheker (formerly Road Chief) station where my brother used to work had regular for 23.9 cents and ethyl for 26.9 in 1970 when my parents bought a new Maverick. The Owens station a couple blocks away had the same prices as Cheker. A few doors from Owens was Conoco. They were a penny higher than Owens and Checker. A few blocks from there was Texaco and they were usually 2 cents higher than the independents and the same as the Enco (ESSO/EXXON) station down the street from them. Sinclair was changing their name to ARCO about that time. They were across the street from Cheker and usually priced the same or a penny higher. Shell and Standard were a couple blocks the other direction and they were always a penny or two higher than Cheker. Gas went way up in '73 but it was back down to 32.9 when I started driving in the mid 70's.
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