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          THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE
          CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
           EMPLOYEES SAVINGS PLAN, made on this 26th  day of
            September,  1996  BY  CROWN  CENTRAL   PETROLEUM
          CORPORATION, a Maryland Corporation:

          WITNESSETH

          WHEREAS, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation  (the
          "Company") maintains the  Crown Central  Petroleum
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          Employees Savings Plan, amended and restated as of
          January 1, 1987 and  as subsequently amended  (the
          "Plan").  The Company has  the power to amend  the
          Plan and now wishes to do so.

          NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is amended as follows:
          I.  Effective September  26, 1996, Section  5.1(a)
          is amended to read as follows:
           (a)  Pursuant to  procedures adopted by the  Plan
          Administrator and uniformly  applied, but  subject
          to the  further  conditions in  this  Section  5.2
          prescribed, Participants may direct through a plan
          fiduciary who shall  be identified  at all  times,
          the sale  or redemption  of investments  in  their
          accounts and the reinvestment  of the proceeds  of
          such sale  or redemption  at  least once  in  each
          calendar quarter, except as otherwise required  in
          order to  make a  permitted withdrawal  in cash.  
          Only for periods prior to September 26, 1996,  any
          election made by a  Participant who is an  officer
          or director  of the  Company to  sell Class  A  or
          Class B Common Stock of the Company as well as any
          election made by  such a  Participant to  purchase
          Class A or  Class B  Common Stock  of the  Company
          with the proceeds of a sale or redemption of other
          investments in such Participant's Accounts (i) may
          not be made within less than six months before  or
          after any other  election by  such Participant  to
          sell or purchase Class A  or Class B Common  Stock
          of the Company  and (ii) may  only be made  during
          the period in each  calendar quarter which  begins
          on the third business day following the release of
          quarterly  or  annual  statements  of  sales   and
          earnings of the  Company and ends  on the  twelfth
          business day following such date.

             II.    Effective September  26,  1996,  Section
          7.5(a) is amended to read as follows:
          (a)  Officers and Directors.

            Only  for periods prior  to September 26,  1996,
          Participants who are officers or directors of  the
          Company and who withdraw Class A or Class B Common
          Stock of  the  Company under  this  Article,  must
          either (i) cease further purchases in the Plan  of
          Class A Common  Stock of  the Company  (or of  any
          other equity security of the Company which may  be
          offered for acquisition under  this Plan) for  six
          (6) months or (ii) enter into a written  agreement
          with the Company to hold such withdrawn stock  for
          at least  six  (6)  months  prior  to  disposition
          thereof.

            III.  In all  respects not amended, the Plan  is
          hereby ratified and confirmed.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the Company  had caused  this
          Amendment to be  executed by  its duly  authorized
          officer and its corporate seal duly attested as of
          the day and year first above written.

          ATTEST:

          Delores B. Rawlings


          CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION

          By  Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr.
          Chairman of the Board