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Looks good there. My wife would love to have 5 minutes with that Coke stuff I agree 100% with the truckload of pumps. Like the showcase best. Keep them coming

Did this pump for fellow old gas member Jim White. My first clockface job. Actually it is ALL Jims fault that I got into gas and oil stuff in the first place. I answered an ad in the Wheeler Dealer back in 91 or 92 because I was looking for some gas and oil signs for my boss. Jim sold some signs to me and I showed him some pictures of some Coke stuff I was doing and the rest is history. I started doing pumps and have done a couple per year ever since. DAMN HIM!!!

Of course after I did a clock face for him I had to have one for myself. Just wish I could have kept it longer.

Jim has had some hard to find pumps over the years here is another....as a matter of fact this would be my first basecoat clearcoat paint job. I put four coats of clear over the water release decals. After wet sanding with 2000 grit paper and polishing they were very smooth almost no edge lines at all.

I guess I have always liked that Richfield eagle....

I have never been a big gravity feed fan. Too much glass to worry about and I think that they must have originally used cement to secure those cylinders to the pump. I have spent countless hours chipping away at the sealer they used to use.

I am sure that I have told this story before,actually one of the first posts on this site I told the story of regretting selling this pump....this is a picture of the one pump I still wish I had never sold.
I bought this pump at an auction for less than 200.00 and people in the crowd laughed at me. Too bad they never got to see the end result!!
By the way I saved the sheetmetal you see in the picture. I bought new lower skins, bezels, faces and misc parts but had the remaining metal soda blasted so it didn't warp or blow holes thru it. Welded patches from the inside where ever it was needed filled with duraglass for strength then finished with body filler. Primed and painted with enamel. Lot of work but worth it when you enjoy the end result.









Thats all for today. I'll post more on Monday Everybody have a great weekend!

I like the Richfield clock face pump. What is it?

kinda looks like db's 850 in the early pics!!turned out nice though

Man that is soooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!

You like pepsi products dont you lol. your stuff looks great. very nice

Too bad you live so far away......Sweet!

The short yellow and blue clockface was a national apex pump. The tall light blue and cream colored clockface was a bennett shotwell. Even though I have re-painted all of this stuff and owned a lot over the years I have never done one for myself to keep. I sold my coke collection 11 years ago. I have just a few things left now and have really slowed down on doing gas pumps. I did one in 2007 none in 2008 and am working on two of them now but both to sell.
I have been holding back on a pair of hayes visibles that I have always wanted to put on an island. Maybe next year I'll do just that. The problem is everytime you make a plan life gets in the way and the plan changes!

Good monday morning everyone. Here is another clock I painted for Jim White a while ago....