Very interesting topic and responses, and have to agree with the various viewpoints. I have to say my interest in petrloiana was a by-product of my interest in classic cars. I had a 55 chev conv at the time in an old, rented, 1 car garage. Pretty drab inside. One day when I was down at my Dads farm and went to some acreage he was leasing for his cattle. That farm had been in these folks family for 3 generations and they never threw anything away, just tossed it in sheds or out in the field. To make a long story even longer, I stumbled across a nice Veedol sign and decided that it would look great on the wall behind my car. And that was all it took to turn this into a 20+ yr hobby...that and meeting the late Jeff Peterson. I'm not old enough to have ever (remember) seeing any of this stuff at stations.
