Years later, while I was at Uni, they sold the land to Texaco (who built a bells and whistles corporate site) and they bought back the franchise in some sort of weird deal I never understood but it made them rich immediately and left them with a business and an income. I worked there again for 6 months to help them get everything up and running.
Edit - We had... ahem... a certain group... cough.. who had a real liking for red diesel. In the end, we had to remove the pump and replace it with an old one with no gauge so we could only sell it into containers.
We then had to make sure they didn't start pouring it into their Toyota Hyace's on the forecourt.
