BRING ON THE BLING BOYS!

THANKS!

I had a good weekend. Picked up the Eveready Mazda easel back and the Francisco self framed tin at the So Cal Gas Bash yesterday and the Early porcelain Fisk flange at a local swap meet this morning.

I picked this set of Stoll Oil Bottles with carrier today (I'm thrilled to add them to my small Stoll collection). I also picked up this Havoline sign.

Picked up this tin tacker:

Wow! Dennis, you’re always tough to follow on BOTW!! The Francisco has always been my favorite sign… Here are a few buys from me this week.. The Hastings is NOS, never hung.. The Yale sign is a tin tacker, almost 30” tall. The Spark plug display was an upgrade, but a tough one to find in this condition.

I left a couple days early for Dixie Gas and headed down to Midland NC to see Miles Little. He was in a selling mood and wanted to clean out of all his common pumps and parts. I only had a few pumps I was taking to Dixie so I loaded the trailer.


On the way over to Dixie we stopped in Hendersonville and had some good BBQ on the house - some Miles deal - free is always good. I pulled out of the parking lot and was following Miles up Interstate 26, I was up to 70 mph when I saw a business card stuck in my wiper. Oh well, it had not blown out yet so I just kept going but I was wondering about the card, it had some handwriting on it. I tried to stick my head down on the dash and read it but that was not a good idea since I was driving. Went about 45 miles up the road to the Maggie Valley exit to meet a guy. When I stopped I grabbed the card, it read " please before you leave town call me". Well, I left town but I called anyway. The guy answered and said he saw my loaded trailer with pumps at the BBQ joint and he wanted to know if I would be interested in buying one. I had to admit to him that I was 45 miles up the road by now and I asked if he knew what model it was , he didn't. I ask if there was anyway to text me a picture. He did and as you can guess I turned around and went back about 50 miles to his house...way back off the beaten path. you can see the top of it in the above picture, had to do some major reloading of the trailer to fit it on. Could not believe my luck, the card did not blow off and then it was a Wayne 60. Had a ton of offers to buy it at Dixie but it was coming home with me, not for sale.

Before I cleaned it....

AFTER I cleaned it

Couple of pumps from my trip to Colorado; Tokheim 36B and a Frey Tall Ten.

Got this rare Red Crown sign off Ebay; below is an explanation of Scrip.

Depression scrip was used during the depression era (1930's) as a substitute for government issued currency. Because of the banks closing temporarily and the lack of physical currency, someone had to come up with another form of currency to keep the economy going and a way for trade to continue. Therefore the old idea of local currency was reborn. Paper, cardboard, wood, metal tokens, leather, clam shells and even parchment made from fish skin was used.

the best two things I got this week was this Gulf can light and the Kelly Tires convex sign, haven't cleaned it but it should clean up nice

Great buys everyone. I have been out of Iowa the last 3 months and picked up the following items while I was away.

I also bought one and a half G&B 86's. I need to put the doors and face plates back on but here is a quick picture

I picked these up yesterday.

Great buys, LOVE the Stoll bottles!!!

Great finds everyone, I really like that Defiance spark plug display and crown oil can.

Nice pump Matt, I think you are going to have the market cornered on the Bennett's.LOL

I just can't believe all the great finds and thanks for posting the pics!

My buy of the week , year who knows but i like it got it from a guy that was going to roof a gas station about 25 years ago. He said he got on the roof and this sign was lying up there and the owner didnt want it so the man took it home and it has been hanging on his back porch since then. then last week he drove by my house and stopped and asked if i was interested in an old kendall sign and well the rest is history.

thats where a lot of the signs ended up- on the roof of the station..

Nice stuff guys!!!
Matt I figured you would but those pumps. I have been watching them on Craig's list but kind of far away and expensive for me. I picked this cool wayne 60 up from a guy I met at Pomona Swapmeet. Picked it up on my way home.
Have a great week,
Rob

Nice pumps Rob, I'll bet that curb pump brings you a lot of "Joy" !
lol

Wow guys! Great stuff. Well, small stuff that I found this weekend. Trying to play with the big dogs.

That is a cool pump Rob. Its got to be a pretty rare one.

Nice finds out there! .... I going to assume this was Kessler's gas station so i can post it in this thread. LOL Embossed and about 54" tall................Anyone know of a Kessler's around northern Indiana? Thanks...

That 7up sign is really nice!

Thanks Mike!

All I know about Kesslers is my Grandma likes her Kesslers and water in a short glass with 3 ice cubes!! LOL!!

thats the kesslers I related to also..

a special thanks to old gasser andy for some of the anti-freeze cans

picked up this cool vintage road racing banner..got these bulk plant tags from a original tidewater whse...the avon tags are very rare and seldom seen..these are the first i have ever seen and have been collecting for awhile..these are from the avon refinery in calif that associated owned..txs alan..also a special thanks to my very good friend and another flying -A-collector..BOB RICHARDS for the decals..

Al,....road race banner in cool..

I bought some oil cans. I guess its time to figure out what I got. The good, bad and junk!

lookin..very cool cans you picked up,,the prestone on the bottom left and thermo,,i`m likeing a lot..txs alan

Hmmmmmm....INVADER....nice to see you have great taste!

I just went for graphics. I left 60 cans behind and I am going back soon. I got lots more, just couldnt fit it all in my truck. Thats what happens when you chat with a old dude in the coffee line. It went like this... oh you build old cars? The old dude said, yes I do. I said, thats cool, I buy old junk. He said, I have tons of stuff that many have tried to buy and its time to clean house. He then said, follow me. I said, sure!! We drove 1 miles to where he had built his house and old gas station and country store and hardware store. It was all surrounded be a historic railroad yard.

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Oh this was 1/4 mile down a road that I pass everyday... lol

Finally off the road, here a few things i picked up. the middle double lubester will be restored to match the Gulf Marine sign in the background. the 2 lubesters to the side i had hand painted. came out pretty darn cool. the stack of hats are NOS, found them in the shipping box... from an old Dodge dealership from NJ. Last, group of awesome mags from the 30's with amazing ads...chuck



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