Robert,

Keep looking - go out for a drive this summer down every dusty gravel country roads and look up by the farm homes "over by the big round drum gas tanks" for old pumps. If you see a pump - or something that looks like a pump stop in and talk to them. You WILL find those wayne 60's for 150.00 bucks! It is REAL EASY and you will be supprised what you will find.

You might go 400 miles before you find a pump - but once you find one pump you will find about 60 around that spot. I usually go 2 days with NO finds, and then find 20-30 on the 3rd day.

Being a young guy like you the farmers will jump at the thought that you want an old pump. DO NOT CALL IT AN ANTIQUE - do not talk about ebay, do not talk about lots of money, do not talk about the internet, do not talk about seeing them restored, do not talk about antique stores, and do not talk about how much it is worth. Let them decide how much it is worth, most of the time they will ask you how much it is worth - tell them "I have no clue, I am not rich and I do not have that much money, I just want an old gas pump to put in my bedroom. I supose I could give you a hundered bucks? Would that work for you? If they laugh and say no, then say "well tell me what you want for it?" Just call it an "old gas pump". "Hi, my name is SOANDSO - and I am woundering if you guys would be interested in selling your old gas pump?" Just tell them you are looking for an old pump to restore and you do not know if there are any parts out there for it, but you will do the best you can.

FORGET ebay and find them on your own. That is where the guys on ebay are getting them. Do not mess with auctions or shows either, they want to much $$$ for the pumps they are getting with the method I talk about above.

Only look on the gravel roads, drive for 10 miles on way, then turn right, go 1 mile over to the next road, and turn back for 10 miles, and then turn left, and go 1 mile, and then turn back and go 10 miles the other way, "maping the route" up and down the gravel roads. If you have no luck on that side of the country town, go to the other side of the town you live in and do it again.

You will find those pumps for 100 bucks I promise!

Travis E. Towle
Topeka, Kansas

785-357-1004

[This message has been edited by travis_towle (edited 10-24-2006).]