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#388944 Sat Jan 26 2013 07:14 AM
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If you had a month to roam the back roads with a truck and trailer looking for petro what part of the country would you go?

It is getting very difficult to spot stuff out in the wild here anymore. Recently took a trip to Tulsa and drove the rental car out in the sticks about an hour's drive. I was amazed at what I spotted out in the wild.

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I would go out west because in Ohio the humidity is so bad that if you do find something out in the "wild" it is rotted and most of the time not worth picking up. No humidity usually mean it can be in better shape. Kind of like a car, depends on where it spent most of its life.


This would be a good question for the American Pickers LOL!!!
That is their so called "JOB"...


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I agree, car parts and the like are more likely to be had in Dry parts of Texas , say Dallas westward and into Kansas. Now prices have gotten stupid in Arizona . Ed Shaver


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There is nothing left on the east coast. So stay west


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Hunt long and hard the good stuff still out there.
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Stay outta Illinois..nothin here.

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What's still here should be left here, it don't like Snow & Humidity!

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With tv the way it is now days I dont think anywhere is good anymore!!


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I wouldn't recommend New Mexico simply because we are a big state with just a few real population centers with few small towns in between.That means lots of driving with little to look at,also,if you can see it from the road most of it is already gone IMO.

It is still out there but it seems to me to be back in on farms and reaches where yoy can't see it.On the flip side,when you do find something it usually is not a rust bucket;too much desert.

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There is nothing left on the west coast. So stay east.. cool


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Originally Posted By: advertologist
There is nothing left on the west coast. So stay east.. cool

Until Randy has a Garage Sale!

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The Texas panhandle is dry, so what you do find is usually in good shape;however, this country wasn't even settled until after the turn of the century, and then the dust bowl emptied it again. Towns are just too far apart and small.

I don't know about condition, but it sure seems a lot of stuff pops up in Minnesota-Michigan to me.

I did have a fun find a couple of months ago. A lady called and asked if I messed with signs and pumps. Said they were redoing their cellar and when they pulled the dirt off, the top was covered with all of these signs with red horses.

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Seems like Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan have a lot.


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Originally Posted By: Dick Bennett
Originally Posted By: advertologist
There is nothing left on the west coast. So stay east.. cool

Until Randy has a Garage Sale!


That would be one cool sale


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While none of us collectors here in Michigan want an influx of shoppers, wink I will agree there is still a bit of stuff still out in these parts. I know the location of about 10-15 pumps right now in my area. These range from 1930's pumps to little Gulf GOC pumps. There are a lot of the Gulf pumps around here, but many I know of are on farms and still in use, so not for sale. Unfortunately for us they were made very well so don't need replaced, lol.
If it's still outside in the original location, I would say it's going to be pretty rusty in Michigan. I would fathom that no other collectors except Michiganders would want the stuff around here..... smile
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