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33" TALL TEXACO ALSO MOUNTED TO A WOODEN BASE. NOT THE CLEANEST AND SORRY FOR THE STUFF IN FRONT OF THE SIGN!


33" TALL TEXACO...MY BETTER LOOKING ONE AND SITTING IN AN OPENING ABOVE MY KITCHEN SINK!


15" PEGASUS LENS I GOT FROM METRO PETRO SHOW A FEW YEARS BACK. MADE A UNIQUE LIGHT CAN OUT OF WOOD AND A CIRCLE-LINE FIXTURE
RECESSED INSIDE.

DOC @ THE AMERICAN GARAGES

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OF ALL MY COKE BUTTON SIGNS THIS HUGE PLASTIC "SIGN OF GOOD TASTE"
BUTTON IS 5'6" TALL! HANGING IN MY LIVING ROOM, I CREATED A SPARKLE
EFFECT BY MAKING A FIXTURE HOLDING A LINE OF 25 XMAS LIGHT SOCKETS EACH USING A 9W FLICKER BULB. IT'S ON A TIMER, SO IT COMES ON BETWEEN 7 AND 11PM EVERY NIGHT. YOU CAN PHYSICALLY SEE IT 4 HOUSES UP THE BLOCK! I ALSO ADDED A RED ROPE LIGHT AROUND THE OUTSIDE BORDER FOR ENHANCEMENT PURPOSES!



DOC @ THE AMERICAN GARAGES



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Here are some close ups of some more of my backlit signs



Lit my Pegasus with rope lights. Gave it kind of a different effect like that coke button.

Rex sent these 5. I got 5 items together:Mobil heat (only one I have seen Atlantic Red Ball,I was working for Atlantic when they put these
up in 1966. LOF lite-up Fram, neat oil moves into engine dirty comes out clean McQuay Norris clock.
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Scott Shipers
Kansas City, Missouri
WANTED: Sooner Queen

I really wanted to join in on the games here, but this is the only sign I have unpacked to photograph. I guess it could be considered a "backlit" sign, although it's actually lit by a neon tube around the edge of the glass. The letters "Lubrication" are etched into the back of the glass.



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Don "oltoydoc" Sherwood
Vintage Gas

Russ Jacobs sent in this neat shock backlit sign.
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Scott Shipers
Kansas City, Missouri
WANTED: Sooner Queen