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Hello everybody! Well December is here along with the big freeze! It's time to show your pics from your Petro travels ,the cool stuff found while checking out the back roads,and little towns passed thru! Stations,pumps in the wild whatever you have seen and snapped a few pics of! And thanks in advance,you know we all love to see em!

I Pass this one everyday going to work, finally stopped to get a pic the other day.
I'll have to get a pic after dark when they have all the neon lit up.

I got stranded in Walsenburg, CO on my way to Denver to pickup some pumps on Thanksgiving when my water pump went out. Found this station in the town with a bunch of nice people that helped us get on our way the following day.

Call me crazy, but that Standard station is beautiful.

Nice older station still used for auto repair.

Pumps still there too.

Oilcanman87, Where is that one located?

This was the old Chevron station at the "corners" in Chimacum, WA.

It is in hubbardston one town that if you sneez it's off the map. It's at the four corners.

This dump has been sitting like this for about 2-3 years.

A couple old stations in Arkansas. I love the one in Havana, AR that is attached to the vacant Havana Bank. The stone garage in Clarksville, AR looks like it may have been a gas station.

Gas station and bank in Havana, Arkansas


Stone garage in Clarksville, Arkansas

An old station near my house. I've posted this before but today I stopped and took pics of the pumps. I didnt know they had these face plates like this. The plates were in quite good condition. Bird was not a sticker but it didn't feel like porcelain either. Could have been I guess. Or painted. Maybe someone would know.
Sorry about the bad photography. I didnt' take the time to put my glasses on so I didnt notice i was taking a blurry photo.

This is place not to far from home that is now a classic car sales place.

Steve since when has a Taurus been a classic car?

That is a very good and observant question Fred.
But honestly, they move some very nice cars through this place. Here is their site. They actually have another building about a mile away with a showroom. But they are still getting that put together. You can see it on the site.
http://www.showdownauto.com/

Those plates are cool!, they look like they are porcelain .thanks for the pics!

Ultimate "man cave" restroom sinks. Seen by my brother in a Florida restaurant. On my bucket list to visit that place.
Might have to build one of those here at home.

Those Pure Firebird pump faces are porcelain. These Pure gas faces are harder to find. Sinclair, FireChief and Skychief's are for sale on e-Bay all the time.

those sinks would look even cooler with a roller toolbox placed underneath as a vanity.

The "Hard Core" petro people need these ! Ed Shaver

This a front view of the Hubbardston location that oilcanman87 posted. The four corners is big enough to have a Post Office from which I took the picture but little else.

Dave

Those sinks are a must have!

What restaurant in Florida? and Where?

Thanks Dave for posting a better pic. Haven't been back to get more.

Saw these neat things this week in Jan. But whatever.

The Dixcel was in a Cracker Barrel restaurant and the Red Crown was at an auction today.

A dead Shell

Those tire/wheel sinks with the nozzle spigots are fantastic!!

I agree with Dave but they would look even better if there was not a guy taking a leak in the mirror,,, ha ha ha
It also cracks me up when people take selfies in public bathrooms!

Went to an auction yesterday. Would not recommend the auction co. at all. Very poorly run auction, thought of leaving several times for many reasons. http://www.richandrichauctioneers.com/default.htm

The up side to the auction was that it was at a museum of tractors and trucks which was fantastic and I would highly recommend. http://www.keystonetractorworks.com/visit-keystone/virginia-museum/

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Check out the rest of the pictures in this post. They have been moved to the Non Petro section.

Wow, a lot of tonnage at that auction!!
Very cool to see that Mobil shield with the side flanges in action. I've always wondered what those flanges were for.

Some Real SWeeT Looking Trucks there!!

Here are a couple of neat signs that I found along the road on the way to Columbia! The Ford neon was hanging on the front of a working ford dealership that was still working out of an older style building in a small town. Don't see many of those small town dealerships anymore!
The duck was on a big pole somewhere north of Kansas City and I had pulled in to fuel up. The sign is huge and it was so windy that day that the wings were spinning like mad! Really got your attention!

Sweet Ford sign!

The Olio Restaurant in St. Louis retains much of the look and feel of the Standard gas station that the building once was. Cool. 1634 Tower Grove, St. Louis, MO 63110

Image courtesy Oliostl.com

Kevin, I know where that Ford sign is and it still lights up at night. It's not for sale for any price and nothing is for sale next door either (I'm sure you saw the place). I call them once a month and the answer is always NO.

The Olio restaurant pictured above, before remodeling. Wow!

Image courtesy Google Maps Street View

Wonderful trucks! Love the mobil heat dodge.

About twenty miles away.

on my way back from Oregon in nor Ca. with a 59 chevy truck I bought

Cool station and that is not just a 59 Chevy truck, it is a Napco.

I seen that too Matt. Those are hard to come by but they are very sweet indeed!!!!!

For those wondering what a Napco truck is:

NAPCO (Northwestern Auto Parts Company) was founded in 1918 and based in Minneapolis. As early as 1942 NAPCO began building four-wheel drive assemblies to be fitted to Ford, GMC, Chevrolet and Studebaker vehicles however NAPCO is primarily associated with GMC and Chevrolet pickups.

From 1942 to 1956 4×4 GMC and Chevrolet trucks could be ordered by the government (US Army) and civilians with a NAPCO Power-Pak kit and the kit could be installed later. The retail price of Napco Power-Pak was $995. This option raised the price on a new two-wheel drive truck from $1,548.96 to $2,796.96. The kit was shipped in a crate measuring 80"x30"x26" weighing 1,410 pounds. In a matter of 3 hours with as little as 4 holes drilled in existing chassis a truck would be converted into a "Mountain Goat", a "full sized truck that will climb steep inclines with ease". One feature was the "shift on the fly" rubber mounted transfer case with a dual-range option. There were companies that installed these upgrades for the previously mentioned manufacturers.

From 1956 to 1959 the NAPCO Power-Pak option could be ordered directly from GM (an official RPO 690 was assigned in 1957) and factory installed on trucks with very few modifications to the original chassis. The 1955 4×4 NAPCO GMC or Chevrolet was a $1250.00 to $1550.00 optional add on. The 1957 Chevrolet and GMC 3100 4×4 price was a bargain at $2549.00 compared to the earlier add on kits. In 1960 NAPCO and GM parted ways when GM redesigned the front suspension on their 1960 pickup line so that it wasn't easily compatible with the existing Power-Pak kits.

Nice truck!

This one's still sitting there on the scab rock with the 442 about 50' away.
"Marmon Herrington" did the same kind of thing for mostly Fords I believe.

Sweet NAPCO! And other vehicles and station!