OK, as a follow-up to my earlier discussion about my oil and gas can finds... I had my Model A at a small local car show last weekend... and this guy walks up to me with an original white 2-gallon Boyco water can in his hands. He had noticed the two cans on my running board and approached me to tell me that he had just bought his can at a garage sale about three blocks away from the car show. He only paid $5 for it, and offered to sell it to me for a mere $20, seeing as how I could actually use the thing. Of course, I jumped at the chance to grab yet another original can (patent date of 1919!), and even though it was still full of water, there was no hint of rusting anywhere inside the thing, just a few dents here and there.
As with the others, I chemically stripped-off the original flaking white paint, and then repainted it, adding a couple of decals to it as well. The before-and-after pictures tell the story, but I guess it pays to be in the right spot at the right time!
