Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana BOTW: "BUYS OF THE WEEK!" - NOV 29th - DEC 5th.

I BOUGHT A BUNCH OF LOCKS AND KEYS, BUT THAT DOESN'T COUNT HERE.

I HOPE THE REST OF YOU CAN PUT SOME INCREDIBLE BUYS UP HERE FOR US TO SEE AND ENJOY!

THANKS!

Picked up this correct sign for my Standard Ignition rack/jars:



Also wired and mounted this light I picked up at Michigan Gas. Mounted it over the door of my compressor room in the shop. You can see the ductwork for the furnace I just put in..no more working out in the shop in the cold anymore.

looking good duane!!!! love that rack,,,i had a buch of those jars and now i see how they go with the rack...your garage looks outstanding...////alan

I haven't posted my BOTW for a while and since it looks like I will be going under the knife again for my heart and money will be a little tight. Thought tonight is as good as any. LOL





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my prayers have been answered..this is a start until
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hey VEEDOL BOB!!! YOUR ARE REALLY GETTING A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF CANS!!,,LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE GOT SO FAR..YOUR ARE DOING WELL WITH THE CANS YOU GOT AND SAVING SOME MONEY IN THE MEANTIME,,!!! KEEP THAT COLLECTION GROWING!!!!! BIG AL---- HANG IN THERE BOB!! MY PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU..

Picked up a couple of Texaco paper posters from the 1930s from Big Cheese that didn't sell on ebay.

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Dragged some more pumps home this week


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Tokheim 36



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Another Wayne 40



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1/2 of a twin 36 B



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A all porcelain Erie 753 cities service pump



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For seven years I tried to buy this pump off a porch and never found anyone home, had some friends stop for me who always got the response "Not for sale" Finally Thursday I was making a delivery up in that area and I drove by and knocked on the door, a woman answered and I put a hand full of fanned out bills against the glass storm door and said would you take a cash offer on the pump. She said it was up to her husband who would be home at 3:30 and she gave me the phone number, I called at 4 and made him the offer and picked it up that night on the way home



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Another Milwaukee 870 cash recorder with 1940 skychief pump plates and original globe

WOW Jeff, did you buy some ones collection or find a lost and forgotten bulk plant?

Two HUUUUGE Sinclair signs, one a 30 foot neon



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PM & email sent on 36B Half.

I figured you would be the one to snipe me on the avid can I was sitting pretty until about 15 sec to go lol. If you ever decide to sell it let me know.

To Dick

If I hadn't been on the phone, dealing on a gas pump, that could have been an expensive can for one of the 3 of us! LOL Glad you got it! Maybe I'll find a small nest of them in someones garage! Hope! Hope! Hope!

Will try this again.....

no super big buys but some neat smalls from veedol al,and some cans from lastgas and humfleet URL=http://img217.imageshack.us/i/botwlighters003.jpg/][/URL]

and some new lighters and a cast iron pump toy. all of these will be going into my revolving smalls cabinets



i dont know alot about the toy except what i have learned here.this one is the nicest original one i have seen.the bottle is just there to give you a size comparison. thanks alot oletemy!!

Here is my buy of the week, it’s wooden and hand painted, about 32” tall. It is single sided and the back is stained white, you can still see some pencil lines from when the sign painter laid out the sign. It’s a neat early sign, I would guess from the 30’s, I’m not too familiar with Richfield but I don’t think they used this logo much later than the mid 30’s?

When you find that nest I'll need to upgrade, your in the right part of the country where they'll be nesting-
for what I got it for my snipe was 52 cents higher

I wish there would have been 3... will do

Wow... it's been a good week for Bennett's. Now these are nothing rare but the story here is I was driving down a county road not more than 15 miles from home and these were still setting hooked up to above ground tanks. They came from farms about 2 miles apart well within eye sight from the road. I still can't believe they were still there. Just goes to show that the stuff is still out there.



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This trailer load came from within 10 miles of home, all from the same place. I knew it was there for some time just took awhile to get it bought.

GREAT Haul Tom. Did you get a TOP w/ the 36B doors?
Or the rest of the 310 Bowser?
[Kevin, ya gotta get a Large Monitor to see what I see!]

Dick,
I am totally amazed at you sometimes. I will view a post and then see one of your comments and then I have to go back to see what you spotted and I missed.
No top and only a broken Bowser base and good upper sheet metal.
Maybe I need a bigger monitor.
Tom.

Really, It's better IF NO one gets a Bigger Monitor, my neck get sore just from reading post/replies!

Bigger Monitor my Butt! Dick just has trained "PICKER" eyes! As soon as he mentions something like that, then I can see it too but the trouble is, I breeze thru those pictures too fast!

I'm telling you, DB doesn't miss much!

Just arrived today.....from the famous eBay controversy "Duplicate Chevron Signs on Ebay - how can that be? " http://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=5&page=1



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I recently got tired of the Bob and Al show, where all the Veedol cans were constantly showing up, so one night last week, while I was roaming the computer and enjoying too much Bud Light, I lost all my sensibilities and decided to own a couple of these colorful cans!
Now, if you've been to my shop, you'll see that I don't have much for cans on display because I don't have a good can display area and I don't have a bunch of knowledge about cans! Now comes the good part--after 4 or 5 Bud Lights, you really don't care about some things when it comes to cans and reasoning seems to go out the window! I was lucky that I thought Bob and Als cans were colorful and somehow appealed to me because there on EBAY were 4 examples staring me in the face!!
They were all from the same seller and seemed to be reasonably clean, so I sat myself down in the office chair with the determination to just buy these cans, Period!
The Lucky Can Angel was with me that night as the cans in question didn't receive an abnormal amount of bids and I was successful without spending the Christmas present money!
The seller was kind enough to combine the shipping and I was left waiting for my new purchase to arrive! The tension was mounting throughout the weekend and I was worried that I had done something really dumb again and the Warden would be coming down on me for my stupidity! When the cans finally arrived, I was pleasantly suprised and delighted that I had gotten such nice condition cans for my moment of determined Bud Light shopping! WHAT A RELIEF!
Having lucked out this time and having been helped out by the Lucky Can Angel, I have decided that once was enough and I will forgo shopping in the future with Bud Light accompanying me! I think I learned my lesson but at least I was inspired by Old Gassers Bob and Al, to buy some really colorful cans that I like! Thanks guys!

That's classic! Great story

Scott - Looks like you got a great sign for a great price! I probably should have rolled the dice on that one, but their answers to my questions were just too weird. ANyway, glad it worked out for you, congrats!

A-HA! Now I know the secret! I just gotta have a case of Bud Lite
handy when Kevin comes to visit!

Oh, that's great!

If it wasn't hard enough already to have AL and the others here to contend with, now I have Kevin. I might as well just give up........ NOT. LOL

The cans look good Kev.

Bob, just wait till your box gets there, you'll have something that Kevin doesn't!

Jeff very nice haul........again !

Added these to my Zephyr, JD Streett collection. A 3.25" thermometer advertising "Uniform Quality Oils" and a towel embroidered "Streett Towing Co"

The towing company didn't involve tow trucks. It was a towboat company that pushed the company's barges of lubricants and anti-freeze up and down the Mississippi. The J.D. Streett company buys lubricant and coolant components from the gulf coast refineries and blends them in St. Louis, MO to package a wide range of brands and products since 1884.

J.D. Streett thermometer


Streett Towing Co towel

Not the best of shape, but I had never seen this one before.

I HAVE SEVRAL DIFFERENT IMPERIAL 2GALS AND TOO HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT ONE EITHER.

NOW I WILL BE LOOKING!

THATS funny!!!!!

GREAT STORY KEVIN!!!! VERY NICE CANS,BUT YOU PROBABLY BETTER KEEP IT AT 4 CANS!!,,BOB WILL FREAK OUT IF SOMEONE ELSE IS GETTING INTO HIS SPACE..LOL.... ALAN

Chad, I have had three of those Imperials and they are hard to find. I know of one more in a local mall around here but it is pricey.

Well this one was only $5.00 and I'm very happy with that. I also got the can in the mail today Scott. Thanks again

Ebay bargain