I am only 19, but I love all the old stuff. I went to car shows with my dad when I was younger. I have always seen the beauty in the old cars and stuff that most kids my age don't see. As long as I can remember, I have always been bringing home old stuff and ripping it apart and restoring it. I have done traffic lights, drive in speakers,1940's and 50's electric fans, and a 1961 schwinn tornado. I had always wanted to do an old gas pump. I got a job working for a sandblasting shop, and one day a customer came in with skins off a bennett. I asked where he got it and he gave me the card of a dealer. I went out to the guys place, and he had all kinds of stuff, mostly petro in his barn. He only had a Tok. 39 for sale, but that was exactly what I wanted. I ended up trading a car full of traffic signals for it (litterly, I even had one in the front passenger's seat). A few months after I finished restoring the Tok. 39, I was driving home from my other job at a neon sign shop and saw some guys working on the gas pumps. I stopped and talked to one man, and he said he had 4 M&S 80's for sale. I ended up buying one for $170 delivered to my house. I wasn't sure if I wanted another pump, but for $170, I couldn't say no. Now I am on that one's restoration, and I got my buddy at the sandblasters hooked and he bought a 39 from the same guy and together we are restoring them to sunoco.
-Mike
