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A TURNTABLE & VINYL remember them?

This is the pump 'OL Sparky came from.
I asked the lady if she wanted to sell the pump, she told me $300.00 . Back then that was way too much for a 300, then she told me she had the globe........I bought the pump and sold it w/out the globe for $150.00

Bought this from a bulk plant in Al. it was still hooked up..$100.00

This one cost $40.00 to buy ....
It was my buddy's pump but I painted it.


1991 Pennzoil display contest....got beat out by an American flag and a mention of Dessert Storm....we were ROBBED !!!!!!
It won the next year.


My brother's pump...I painted

How about a picture of your place from the road? I'll bet it great.

OK.... here is proof I have been doing this a LONG time AND that I have a loose screw up there somewhere.
That's me w/ the glasses and Mark,the JARHEAD TO BE, buddy of mine...sometime before I started collecting...pre 1984
Mark helped me rebuild the tranny in my truck a few months ago.

Those are UNIVERSAL cabinets.

The 'Ol Meter checkstands...that is how we would test the individual rebuilt METERS.....TEST MEASURES !!!!! NOT CANS !!!!

Some of these pics were taken at my brothers, some at other places I have lived at, some at my partners houses... All this junk has been gone for a long time...but I had one hell of a good time doing it !!!!

Halfway through my handy oil collection, I forget who I sold them to but it got into the 100's of cans and dollars. One was a Stanacola can and there was a Shell soap box derby oil too.


This pic was taken in PA. The guy GAVE us all the signs.
That is my brother in the pic, I am on the other side.


LIKE FREE CRACK !!!!!They came home in the suitcases

We got lost and found an old store, we stopped in and looked around then as we were leaving my buddy spotted the Bowser out in a barn...got it for $10.00.
The guy said I don't know what you want that ol thing for , I said well I'll give you $10.00 he said load it up !!!!


This is the pump I robbed the handle off for my 245 Bowser.

The little brown house w/ the visibles is where my partner in pumps lived. We would go out at least 2 days a week hunting for pumps.....from dawn to dark thirty... Later he moved down the street to where the parts & skins pictures were taken. That is where we restored most of the ones we did. The pics with the two little orange clock pumps & trampoline is where he lives now. All the parts were sold from there 12+ years ago to Skip McCook.

It was like an fun engine,,,,we went out looking , RARELY came back with less than a truckload, spent a little cash, kept what we liked, for zero $, sold off what we didn't want to keep,and made $, took that $ back out on the road and bought more, over and over and over. Made $ by parting out the incompletes, restoring the nicer pumps, signs, globes. There is no telling how much stuff we pulled out and introduced into circulation.

LOVED every bit of it too !!!!!
With the economy the way it is I plan on doing some hunting around NOV....best time to do it, no wasps and folks want Christmas money!!!

Wow Joe, you had a lot of stuff. Wish you still had the Tok 34s, I want another one.