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Maybe this has been done before in this forum, but I would like to see what gas collectors consider their favorite items. If everything but one or two things had to be sold what would you want to keep? It doesn't have to be the most valuable but maybe it has a great story. Here's mine--a chevrolet bowtie neon
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Please - NO offers to Buy or Sell in this forum category
Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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This is MY favorite pump--I mean OUR favorite pump -- No wait HER favorite pump -- i think i may have lost this one to wife
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my favorite can, just wish it was a quart.
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It was hard for me to pick out just one thing, so I narrowed it down to pairs of globes and signs. (I didn't see globes in the list but they are among my favorite things.) The Gulf Marine White was my greatest globe find so far (about 8 months ago), but the Marathon I think is my favorite globe/design. When I first started collecting old gas I got the globe books and looked through every page. When I saw this one I said to myself I was going to own that globe one day. I was finally able to secure one after several years from Scott Benjamin. In the line of signs, both of these are well above average in condition, but the working Red Crown thermometer is special to me as it was the first "real" sign I had found when I started collecting old gas items, and it's been in my area since it was new. It was handed down in a local family for a couple generations then sold to me. I will never sell it. Have a good one, Darin  
Darin Sheffer
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My Favorite Sign..  My Favorite Quart.  My Favorite Pump. (Husky) 
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Remember you are only as good as your help
If you don't make any noise no one will hear you!
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My favorite quart can.  My favorite pump.  One of my favorite signs. 
Wanted Owens Motor Oil & Mobiloil Gargoyle. Brad Ralston & my website is www.petrobarn.com
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Ain't got a Favorite, they're all Special
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Thirty years with this company. Because of that I can do and buy anything that I want in my retirement. That being the case it has to be my favorite. Mitch
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My favorite pump: 1939 National A-38 with original paint and ad glass.  My favorite clock:  My favorite sign: 9+ Sinclair HC 
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Enjoying seeing everyone's favorites Not that I have so many, but it's hard to narrow it down to a couple signs pump or can, but here's a couple of mine. My Tokheim 850 from my Dad and Mom (pictured). Dad passed last March.   My Erie 603     Favorite globe: etched early Texaco    Thanks, Rod
Looking to buy or trade old gas station memorabilia such as pumps, globes, cans, signs, free give-aways, S&P shakers etc. from the 20s-60s.
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Here's my favorite Pump, sign and can.....The neon Chevrolet could be my fovorite sign too with a little crating and freight! LOL
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Rare pumps, Chevrolet items, Goldon Tip Gasoline, Marathon (running man)
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Great topic. I hope the trend continues. Lets see some more...
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Great Signs Flash_1967!!!
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WOW!! I'm mainly a sign guy (just 6-8 basic pumps} but if I could find pumps like those i see in this thread I would forget signs for awhile.
Flash_1967 that is the nicest cadillac neon I've ever seen and that Ford neon has to be very rare
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Tokheim 36B
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Gas Pumps, Farmall tractors and 1968 Chevrolet Impalas
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Wow! Flash just made my signs look like junk!
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My favorite sign. 
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Here are a few on my favorites...
The Opaline cans is not the most rare can I have but it's by far my favorite, the race car image is hands down one of the best.
The Stanley sign is one of the most recent things I bought but it's become one of my favorites, the colors are killer!
I only have a few globes but this one is my favorite for obvious reasons....
The Chevrolet sign is my dad's favorite.
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Favorite Sign  These 5 foot by 3 foot signs are amazing, just enough color difference to make them pop from the smaller version. Favorite Pump  And yes it gets to stay in the house! Whoohoo chalk one up for MAN. Favorite Small 
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Husky my favorite sign and Wayne 70 favorite pump....
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One of my favorite signs is this Shell sign dated 1941.
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Dennis Leith / Always looking for unusual Gilmore Oil Company items and Automobilia Displays
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Today's new arrival, just restored, Dayton 600 with all the original parts and glass cylinder.  Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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***Wanted*** Always looking for Oilzum, Kunz, and Husky Cans, Signs and Smalls.
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Old masco 6v says Detroit on it, no smoking is a nice old thick porcelain 
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Don't have one favorite but here are a few I favor. 
Chuck  Signs Wanted: Sunset, Clipper, Harbor, Indian Motorcycle, Powerlube, Beacon, Michelin, Conoco MM
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I love that United Motors Service sign, Chuck.
Looking to buy or trade old gas station memorabilia such as pumps, globes, cans, signs, free give-aways, S&P shakers etc. from the 20s-60s.
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Had this for about 4 years, it was a cheap buy and beat and bent all to hell and back. Big chunk missing from top left corner about 8inches square. Lots of porcelain missing all over, a real basket case. Done a little work on it here and there and finally got it fairly flat and whole again. Found a little gal that likes to paint and put her to work. It's a long way from right but it's nice again. The white spots that show up on it are false, they are not on the sign. This one had to be redone, painted,restored or what ever you want to call it. I like it and think it's very rare. Goes with my 41 IH truck.
 My fav sign, restored out of necessity.
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  Hard to pick just two but here they are very nice and clean mfa sign and a rare superior globe
Originals only for me. Always looking for Simpson oil, Super A, and MFA oil cans and globes.
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After seeing all the fantastic pumps, globes, signs, cans.... I am almost embarrassed to post my favorite items.... My favorite signs;  Favorite small(s);  My favorite can and maybe rarest(?), at least I've not seen another except for photo in "Can Bible";  And lastly my favorite "Gas Stick";  It is made of cardboard, not wood. So how it survived is IMO quite remarkable.
Looking for Tide Water/ Tide Water-Associated/ Tidewater items
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Not the best of shape, but I've never met anyone in the hobby who knew this thermometer exists. That's what makes it my favorites petro piece! 
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see me at Mason Dixon Gas, Spring Carlisle M114-115, and Hershey C4E-35.
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I agree with you Greg, I have always wanted to own one of those originals,,, let me know if you know where a guy can find one in great condition only..thanks for sharing, Wes..
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My fav is these 2 that my son found(11 yrs old) at a antique furniture show and was all excited that he found them so i paid to much so we could have them.  Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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I would have to agree with DB about them all being special,but if i just had to choose "right now it's my t34" BUT......I LOVE ALL MY RUST, and advertising pieces I'm not attached to like i am pumps but this ford clock found a good spot in the house immediately! Greg, that sign is better than chopped beef,im just blown away at the sign every time you post it "standard oil/polarine! And DB that twin build had to be a blast,too cool .....heck everything posted is awesome, refreshing thread "THANKS FOR CRANKING IT UP"! ~CHRIS
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BUY SELL TRADE ORIGINAL GAS PUMP PARTS
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Lots a cool stuff here! Heres my favorite,Complete with original roller   Gotta start work on the number three pump for in the house soon.
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One of my older and rich in history.Frank Phillips Ranch pre 1929.Was later named Wolarock,outside of Bartlesville Ok.
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I found this globe (and 3 others including cast Tydol ethyl) in the attic of an old Dodge dealership in SW Okla. in 1975. They were NOS and had never been on a pump.
This thing sat on a shelf in my den for years until I finally bought the right clockface pump to put it on about 5 years ago.
I'd have to say it's the one thing I'd try to grab in case of a fire!.  and a couple of favorite cans:
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