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Wed Dec 30 2009 08:24 PM
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You just never know what you might find when you launch Google Maps. You just never know what you might find when you launch Google Maps. I stumbled upon this rare gas pump!!! What are the odds? 238 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Google Map Zoom In View http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9048/866inbrooklyn.jpg
Last edited by Oldgas; Thu Dec 31 2009 05:27 AM. Reason: Edit to make Google link work
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Please - NO offers to Buy or Sell in this forum category
Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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That pump just screams out "TAKE ME!".
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The American Garage better be making a trip to the big city to get that pump...... Randy 
Always looking for Hy-Flash Gas/Miller Oil, Hi-Speed Gas/ Hickok Oil and Paragon Refining items from Toledo,Ohio.
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They have bars on their windows and doors, but they leave a Wayne 866 sitting out with the trash cans? Yikes!
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scrap or junk collector probably came by and loaded it up and cut up for scrap metal. Can't believe a pump would be sitting out on the curb next to trash cans.
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The American Garage better be making a trip to the big city to get that pump...... Randy YES THAT IS EXTREMELY ODD FOR SURE. WHAT I WANNA KNOW IS HOW SOMEBODY FROM OREGON FINDS AN 866 IN BROOKLYN LIKE THAT. WHAT WERE YOUR SEARCH COMMANDS? LOL!
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Looks like a rough neighborhood. Take some money & get the heck out of there 
Wanted Owens Motor Oil & Mobiloil Gargoyle. Brad Ralston & my website is www.petrobarn.com
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Here is the story:
I heard that there was an original 866 but only knew of the street name.
Out of curiosity, I put the street name into Google and a number of cities came up, some of which I have never heard of before.
The cities were alphabetized and I selected Brooklyn because it was at the top.
A satellite image of New York City came up on Google Maps with dots of businesses located along this very long street in one of the most populated cities in the world.
I arbitrarily clicked on one of the businesses (an auto repair shop) and to my surprise, there was the pump on the other side of the street.
The odds of discovering it this way are astronomical.
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wow!!sittin there next to the garbage cans????duh!! neat find for sure!
Looking for gas,oil related clocks,especially neon and spinners .clock repair available. Mick
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The American Garage better be making a trip to the big city to get that pump...... Randy You might want to take your weapon of choice for that one!!! bad looking area!!
Always looking for Hy-Flash Gas/Miller Oil, Hi-Speed Gas/ Hickok Oil and Paragon Refining items from Toledo,Ohio.
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WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS WALKING ON THE SIDEWALK? THINK THEY'RE CARRYING TOO? LOL!
QUESTION IS....IS THE PUMP FOR SALE?
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See the airplane body in the second garage door opening to the right? What's up with that in the middle of the city?
Go for it, Doc.
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See the airplane body in the second garage door opening to the right? What's up with that in the middle of the city?
HAHAHAHAHA! BUT IT'S OKAY FOR MOST OF US HERE TO HAVE GAS PUMPS IN OUR HOUSE! 
DOC @ THE AMERICAN GARAGE
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