Here is the start to my Red Indian Gas station I built a few years ago in my double car garage back wall. It was a blank canvas and I got my inspiration from one photo of a Red Indian gas station photograph I found on the internet. Please follow along and I hope you enjoy. Will be adding a lot more pictures of it’s progress. It started with my Wayne 866 rough pump I was very fortunate to buy.

Pump I planned on rough restoring, decided it was going to be Red Indian on one side of the pump and White Flash on the other side of the pump as I had two White Flash porcelain panels already in my collection, and they fit the Wayne 866 or 60 pump perfectly.From the pictures, you can see very bad fading and will require reproduction parts.

Here is a picture of the extra White Flash panel I had to use. It’s in better shape. I have included a picture of a reproduction decal I’m going to use on the pump. I aged it by spraying paint stripper very lightly on it. Last picture I could see under the old red painted panel some lettering and a date.

Pump is starting to come along nicely now. Both sides going to be totally different. I was really pleased after sanding the red panel and finding this name and date under the paint, being careful not to fully remove any lettering or numbers, and with the aged decal added, I was very pleased with the progress.

Now after fitting the panels, it was time to take the pump apart to get ready for the new parts, and tap a lot of the rusty screw threads. Did all the wiring at this point as well for it to light up.

So here is the pump with new parts added on both sides along side my visible pump I had restored a few years earlier.

The sight glass I smeared with a little grease to make it look like the old gas had dried up and was dirty. I thought better looking than shiny new glass . Again I’m aging the pump to look old and well used. So now it’s time to work on the back concrete wall to look something similar to this picture I found on the internet.

Next I covered up my visible pump, so not to get any paint on it. I painted that back cinder block wall in the back of my garage a creamy off white color. Going white would be to clean and bright. I taped up a fake window on my solid door to give it that old gas station looking door.

Came up with this modern outdoor pole to use as a station lighter to put beside the Wayne 866 pump. Painted a pile of wood trim to add to my cinder block wall and painted the sides of my steps going to the door in the Red Indian red paint. I’m going to incorporate my Gilbarco air meter into this project somehow.

Will be incorporating this station lighter top to my project soon. Starting to put up my painted wooden trim on the back wall. Started laying out the shape of the gas station with painters tape.

The wall detail continues. Lots of masking sizing and painting.

Adding red paint to the curved section. Now it’s time to incorporate that Red Indian cement casting I painted as shown in my past listing.

Red Indian casting now hung on the wall, red curve painted and blue sky painted on the back of my garage wall. It’s coming along nicely.

Painted the steps grey, sponged in some fake clouds in my sky by dabbing white paint lightly with a new sponge. Sorry, but I’m no artist, best I could do while standing on an 8 foot ladder.

Painted the door trim black, changed the door handle and lock to black as well. I experimented with a picture of the inside of a general store, had it blown up to window size picture, 2 way taped it to my door and made a wooden frame painted black that i attached over top of it to hopefully give the visual affect of looking through straight into a gas station convenience store. I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Visible pump lit up now.

Had custom. Letters made up for me, Red Indian Station, Oil, and Gas. See picture under Indian Head. Started to rough assemble that made up station Lighter. The project is coming along nicely. To be continued with more pictures on another day. Thanks for following along, and keep checking in as I will add more pictures of it’s progress on this page.

Looking good....

your doing one hell of a job - that pops, for not being

a artist you have talent you didn't know you had .. ...

Crikey, what an ambitious job and a great result so far.

First, thank you for all the kind words. This is a labor of love for me. I’m having a blast building this wall. Things are working in my favour on this project too. At this point I realized to make this look like a gas station, I would need another pump. I was very fortunate to come across a fellow petroliana member selling a rough rusty Wayne 866 close to North Bay, about 4.5 hour drive. Timing was perfect, so here is my new addition. I added Oil and Gas lettering on the wall now. This is not a true showcase 866, someone at sometime added the display opening on one side with hinged door, the other side has a steel panel. I’m still thrilled to have it and will work with it.

More pictures of the new addition. Sheet metal sides are pitted so bad in some areas, you can see right through. A few more Canadian winters outside and this pump might have been a parts pump. It’s a perfect candidate for rough restoring.

Additional pump photos.

Additional pump pictures. Wayne 866

Now finally next to each other to see how they look with the Red Indian gas station wall. That central vac needs moved.

Now it’s time to build that island. Time to get these pumps of the ground.

Dry fitting the gas pumps on the new island. I’m using every inch of my garage back wall for island fit.

Central vac removed and relocated and new side wall built and painted.

Time to paint that station lighter red. Added some more Red Indian items to the wall. Air meter added with new aged decal attached.

Forgot to mention at this point, island and the rest of the steps were painted concrete grey. Close up of new, aged decal. Please check in for more pictures with descriptions to follow shortly. Lots more changes coming soon. Thanks everyone.

Looks great and kuddos for all the hard but probably enjoyable work put in! Now enjoy!

Straighten that indian head, drives me crazy...lol

Well done Neil. We really appreciate you sharing your project with us. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Randy, more pictures with descriptions coming soon. Neil

Yes you are absolutely correct, how did I miss that. Indian head straightened up now. Better ? Unfortunately the rest of the pictures moving forward will show the Indian head on an angle as they were taken a couple of years ago during my construction of the gas station wall. My apologies.

Moving on, I decided I wanted light up globes on these pumps. I realize they are globe delete pumps and have no 5 inch, or whatever the size hole in the top. So I figured if I only drill a 3/8 inch hole in the top of them to accommodate the light bulb housing and a couple of 1/4 inch holes to securely mount the globe holder casting, it’s not a major modification. So at this point I decided to order 2 metal globes, 1 Red Indian glass lens, 1 Red Indian Marathon Blue lens and 2 White Flash Lenses for the backs of the pumps and 2 aluminum globe holder castings from Jim’s garage website.

When parts arrived, I had a little problem to deal with, these castings are formed exactly to accommodate a large hole in the center. I wasn’t going to modify my pump to fix, so I had a lot of grinding of the globe holder castings to fit the Wayne 866 curve.

While waiting for the globe holders to rust up a bit, this is the modification I ended up doing for fit on each globe holder casting.

Test fitting went well, now the globe holder castings sit flat with just a 3/8 inch hole drilled on top.

Pump opened up to add new wiring to light up globe holder. White Flash on one side, Red Indian on the other side.

Working on the one globe now, primer and age painted. I also painted those 2 upper side panels on the first Red Indian Wayne 866 pump.

One pump finished, need to start working on the other Wayne 866 pump.

Rough restoring the second pump into Marathon Blue and White Flash. Tear down time.

Getting ready for hand painting.

Painting and installing all lighting.

Here are the pictures of the second Wayne 866 completed.

Finally, here is the Red Indian Garage wall finished. I turned the pumps around to show the White Flash sides, and finally the Red Indian side that the garage will stay as.
Thanks for joining me on this project I thoroughly enjoyed. Please continue to follow this link as I will soon be adding a Seloil display cabinet and a few more signs. Also I plan to hook up some headlights to that old Essex Super six radiator on the wall.

Very impressive - you must be proud of that!

Very nice job. You might want to think about painting your CV up like a big grease can. Would blend right in with your space.

Bought a set of old car lights at the outdoor market, got them working and hung on the wall with that Essex Super Six Rad.

Nice work! Good use of your space

I disagree, looks great. The whole display is neat. Like the lit headlights.

Looks great well done very neat .

I picked up this Seloil display cabinet to rough restore into Red Indian to go with my Red Indian gas station inside my garage. Lots of degreasing to do, sand and rough paint. Plan on lighting it up and adding a Red Indian globe. Not original, but I have seen pictures of other people adding a globe to this style of display cabinet.

I figured out how to access the large plastic oil catcher basket in the bottom of the oil rack. It’s cracked, broken and missing pieces, but still cleans up okay. Original to display cabinet as it says Seloil in the plastic.

Started degreasing both sides of the cabinet and sanding parts, so ready for paint.

More taping of parts and finally paint. Showing one side.

Finished up the other side.

Attaching a globe holder and all electrical installed in cabinet. Very tricky running the wires for globe lighting and lighting up both sides of can display areas and sliding drawer for oil pouring. Had to be wired in such a way as to opening and closing both oil display doors and not interfering with that operation. Priming globe and globe holder.

Globe parts painted and installed.

Cabinet is completed and lit up.

Looks great, nice job!

Well done. Makes for a nice addition to you display.

Very well done, impressive. Since I have my own oil-can Island merchandiser awaiting resto, I have 3 questions for you;

1. any tips/tricks in getting the correct angles for cutting the globe holder rang, to fit the ANGLED slope of the top? (not applicable to my own unit, since it has a flat top, just for my learning…)
2. how do you achieve the ‘vintage paint’ effect? I don’t mean using a vintage COLOR, but rather vintage EFFECT?
3. Can you tell us HOW you achieved lighting that worked WHILST drawers and sliders open & close? Curious!

Just f.y.I., I plan to put mine on CASTORS; gives it a BIT more height, and then super-easy to wheel around/move. I did this on my Wayne 505 & 605, and now plan to use castors on SEVERAL items, for ease of movement, a cheap solution to significantly improve its no ability, for me, anyway!

Love your mini forecourt!
Chris

So impressed by what your putting together here. I love how this will be jn your garage (and out of the snow) so you can enjoy it at any time. To be honest this reminds me of a Jason Shron out of Aurora who built the VIA car replica in his basement.

The Essex Super Six grille was such a good idea. I dont know what i liked better between the working headlights and the vintage 28 plate. I'm feeling like all you need to top it all off is a vintage highway navigation sign or highway sign (I'm a huge fan of the crown topped kings highway signs the province used to have in the 40/50s).

Hi Chris, the top of my particular Seloil cabinet tapers 10 degrees front and back. I contacted Jim’s Garage (buy my pump parts from) and asked for the closest fit pump globe holder. He suggested the Wayne 60 globe topper would be closest. He was correct, I just had to die grind the inner ring a little to accommodate fit within 1/8 inch. I added a home made gasket and that was close enough for me. Question 2, As the cabinet was already brown, I simply sanded it to remove finger dirt. The globe and holder I sprayed (Krylon spray can) brown primer. Then I simply brushed using a good exterior red paint, one coat, very fine to let some streaks of brown to show through, criss crossing strokes with the brush to give a rough,worn paint effect. Trick, before it fully cure dries, I spray can paint stripper on just some areas to lightly bubble and look like wear. If it bubbles to much, you can tamp it with a rag or paper towel to stop and flatten the bubbling. Will get back to you on the wiring, need to take some pictures.

Hi Chris, wiring a little tricky to explain. I will show you what I purchased from Amazon (choose warm white). I used a power bar inside cabinet.Top globe I used a wire with it’s own plug, easier to remove top and just plug in. Ran light pucks from either side starting from top inside cabinet, tie wrapped down the back of one aluminum rods, down through a drain hole by base of cans, then up to power bar.Ty wrap excess wiring so not to interfere with removal of oil catch basin. Used third light puck just under power bar to light across the spout drawer opening, it just lights up that area a bit too. Not really needed, but had a third light puck to use. The remote and holder I just stuck on the underside of the aluminum roller door, first section, sideways, so it will roll up with the roll door.

More pictures.

Good thinking, I will look out for some Kings Hwy signs the next time I go to Aberfoyle market...

Many thanks, for BOTH replies; that gives me a lot to go on, appreciated!

Side-bar question for ALL; re-reading my original post to Mccoll64, I see another 2 grammatical/syntax errors, but cannot re-find the EDIT button, after earlier doing an edit?

Thanks
Chris

The "Edit" button disappears after 10 hours from posting the message. It is hoped that any errors are noticed and revised within that time period. Before we had that restriction, we found that a few trouble makers would edit posts after a number of replies had been posted with the intent to change the content and make the replies look foolish or conflicting.

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