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#171543 Sun Jan 24 2010 09:11 AM
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Hello there, new to posting/pics. Worked for Chevron for 29.5 years, been collecting for over 33 years. Just got back from a vacation in Yuma, Az. Brother took me over the river to Bard Calif to visit the Cloud Museum. Terrific collection of 1920's cars, trucks and gas stuff. Here is a pic of a station originally from San Diego. Note the old "RV" in the background. Tons of old trucks for hauling gas, lubesters, etc. Very large 5 gallon gas can collection hanging from the rafter of one of the many garages in the museum. Owner will give you quite a good tour. Great way to spend a couple of hours if you are ever in the Yuma area.

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Looks like a bunch of old stuff we love. Got to watch for snakes & scorpions in the summer time though smile

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Yea, we kept our eyes open for those kind of party favors! What was really neat about the place was all of the old cars were driven in! The owner works on each one, parks it, then puts it up on "wood" blocks. He took us over to one old car, had a battery hooked up and cranked it over. Had one old truck loaded full with 40-60 gallon lubesters. Just tons of stuff to look at! Here is a link to his site.
http://cloudmuseum.dynamitedave.com/pictures.html

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

I've been to that area a number of times in past years but I never heard about that museum. I usually visited Algodnes, Mexico. It's a great little boarder town with some good places to eat.
I'll be sure to check out that collection the next time I'm in the area.



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It looks like a must place to visit.


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Love the rust! Also there's the tractors with the hard rubber tires we were wondering about. Remeber the guy that made the minature gas station and tractor with hard rubber tires.
Thanks for the post

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Thats a lot of stuff! I used to harvest wheat and oats with a combine like the one pictured. It was old back then and broke down a lot, but it got the job done eventually. It belonged to an old farmer who literally held it together with baleing wire
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My thanks to the Cloud website for keeping the memory alive.

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