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#58106 Sun Feb 23 2003 05:19 PM
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I am restoring a 1939 Signal Gas Station. Does anyone have a good example or source for the color green that would have been used on the exterior doors? I have not been able to find a sample under the layers of paint on the building. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey Rob, as long as I've been collecting theres only 2 times that i'm aware of Signal useing green , one was there very first quart with the tri-angle logo (1930) the next green was the same color but it was used in 1962-63 on a 5 gallon bucket. oh one more time was there very last logo from houston the split ball with half orange and half green , other then that good luck .

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Can't say I've ever seen an original Signal pump in green. The highboys or bulk oil contaniers were a pea green. I think most of there pumps were an orange color. I did mine in yellow fronts and black sides cause I say another one done like it. Just looked good to me. Sometimes you just paint them in whatever you like. Ted

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Rob,
Not that I can't help on the color but,your talking about the door color on the building, right?

John

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Yes - I am looking for a match for the exterior door color.
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I have a Signal Oil Company Painting Diagram dated 1954 that indicates the exterior doors were green. That is the color I am trying to locate.
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I just stripped a Bennett 640 tall that was in Signal most of its life. As far as I can tell, it was a dark fire engine red all over, then later repainted more of an orange in the 60s. (it finished life as a white exxon, yuck).

Here's the question: I've seen Signal restorations in the dark red with black doors that look pretty cool (check out gaspumpheaven.com), but my doors were definitely never black.

Can anybody document the red pump / black door combination?

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The book, PCMs Guide to Gas Pump Restoration , shows all Signal gas pumps were solid red from the 1930s through the 60s except for super premium grade pumps in the 60s (yellow).

I have seen Signal pumps restored using yellow with black and they looked pretty sharp. We usually say, "It's your pump, you do it the way you want."

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From collector Jim Sharp in Oxnard, CA.

Signal in black and yellow.



Don't know about the green door, but it seems like a nice contrast.


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