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Can anybody help me with the color for the neon on this can. It is a doulb sided sign and there is a neon tube that goes completly around the can. The clips can be seen. I need to know color of car and color around can. The neon tube for the can comes out ofthe bottom of the can. Any help would be appreciated

United Motors sign

This is from 1947, as you can see, it says this Zeon is better than Neon, but the colors are still there. I would assume the colors stayed the same even though they changed to Zeon (what ever that is?).




Jack Sim

Jack,

Thanks for the information and I did have that picture from when you sent items out that were for sale. I was wondering if the color was different since the outer neon on my sign just goes around the top of the can versus the yellow in your picture that goes around the permimeter of both sides of the sign. Mine also has a date of 1931 on the original transformer serial number.

Thanks again.

Jim

I have one in my collection and it has a red car with blue around the outside.

Gas stuff - is that the original color?

I always thought it was,until I saw Jacks post,now I am not sure,although all ones I have seen have been like mine.Does anybody out there know for sure? Thanks

Most of the ones I have seen have an orange car and blue ring.