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The "petro bug" thread got me to thinking. Name some movies that have OK (more than a nano-second) petro appearances.

Kind of unusual as it's from 1988 - "Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark". Pump and a couple of lubesters. I'll try and 'volunteer' my brother to do some screen captures.

I have a feeling that most (all) of the movies will be much older than this...

Grapes of Wrath
Birds
Blues Brothers

Re, the Blues Brothers. They dumped a tanker full of gasoline on the ground and blew up/burned the gas station for that movie. A friend of mine was there. That scene ended up on the cutting room floor.

Peter heres some in you backyard,

In First Blood? early sly Stallone movie, they blew up a station in HOPE B.C.

And a Shell station in Coquitlam in BIRD ON A WIRE..Goldie Hawn/Mel Gibson I think

Pearl Harbor, two tok 36b's without tops done in Sunray.

I never caught the name an ELVIS movie with a nice Mobil station shot with wayne 90 script tops.

speaking of & not to hi-jack this post but WHO HAS & WHERE ARE ALL THE WAYNE 90 SCRIPT TOPS??? I see one in oldgas pictures here but have yet to see one posted!?!

Hey cant forget the classics Americian Graffiti

YOU GUYS AREN'T THINKING......

WHAT ABOUT ONE OF BURT REYNOLDS WORST MOVIES...THE ONE HE WISHES NEVER EXISTED?

HE DRIVES A 1955 SPECIAL EDITION OLDSMOBILE 1 OF 50 MADE - DRIVES IT ALL THROUGH GEORGIA AND OTHER SOUTHERN STATES FILLING UP AND ROBBING S.O.S. GAS STATIONS. MAN, YOU SEE PLENTY OF PETRO IN THIS FLICK! TOUGH TO FIND THOUGH. AT ONE POINT AN OUT OF CONTROL STAKE BED TRUCK PLOWS RIGHT THRU THE ISLAND AND TAKES OUT 2 TOK39'S (?)....SAD BUT HILARIOUS!
ALWAYS BEEN A FAVE MOVIE EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A REYNOLDS FLOP!

"W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS"
1975

CHECK IT OUT.....

ANOTHER MOVIE WITH ASSORTED PUMPS IS "DUEL" WITH DENNIS WEAVER FROM 1971. THIS MADE FOR TV MOVIE DIRECTED BY YOUNG STEPHEN SPEILBERG (sp.?) WAS THE ROADTRIP FROM HELL AND THE PRECURSOR TO "JAWS." UNFORT THE PUMPS ARE BRIEF HERE.

ANOTHER EARLIER BIGGIE WHICH WAS LOADED WITH GAS STATIONS AND COKE STUFF WAS "IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD!" FROM 1963 WITH AT LEAST 15 NOTABLE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. LONG MOVIE - BUT WORTH THE SIT!

THOSE ARE 3 OF MY FAVES!

KEEP 'EM COMIN'!!!!

DOC @ TAG/WEST

Dick, were you there when they filmed "Pearl Harbor"? Why would they use topless 36B's on a high budget film?
Rod

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A movie prop house in N. Hollywood supplied the pumps. He only had 1 top, and they wanted 2 period pumps. I caught him at the RIGHT time [after movie was made], and bought the 1 top he had & an extra door w/ bezel.

All of the stuff that was in the town near the end of TWISTER (a true classic..HAHA), the one that had the car thrown through the drive in screen was actually done right behind where VIC'S 66 is, and yes they bought it all from the shop. I'm sure they spent a ton.

I can remember a visible(can't remember the manufacturer though) in No Time For Sergeants with Andy Griffith.

Here is one of my all time favorite movies:

"Paper Moon" with Ryan and Tatum O'Neal

I think there is at least 2, maybe 3 filling Station shots. They both had visible pumps in them. I watched the end of movie awile back on the AMC and at the end they show a car leaving a filling station and driving off into the sunset...The filling station had a clockface pump there.

Also dont forget the movie "Honkey Tonk Man" with Clint Eastwood and his son Kyle. This flick shows a filling station in Arkansas with at least one Fry Mae West might have been two... not sure.

Thanks,

Easy G. Butler

The Jerk

"Vanishing Point" 1971, couple of scenes, Mobil stations I think.
"High Sierra" 1940, Humphrey Bogart/Ida Lupino. A couple of great shots of stations & pumps & Drug Stores.
"That touch of Mink" Cary Grant/Doris Day late 50's. Killer shots of Mobil Station w/script top pumps, etc.

In Pearl Harbor, if you watch closely, you can see that neither pump was done on the backside and they accidently show them. Most early films used actual locations and stations in their scenes.