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#181983 Fri Apr 02 2010 03:29 PM
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IT HAS PAID OFF DEARLY,ME OPENING MY MOUTH TO MY CUSTOMERS ASKING,IN GENERAL, IF THEY MIGHT KNOW WHERE ANY GAS PUMPS OR SIGNS MIGHT BE ! WELL ,A GUY THAT HARDLY EVEN SPEAKS ENGLISH CAME IN TO MAKE A PAYMENT TODAY AND SAID THAT THERE DEMOING THE OLD GULF BUILDING IN TOWN! AND THAT THERE WERE ABOUT 10 PUMPS THAT THEY WERE GONNA LOAD TO DUMP!THE PUMPS ARE ROUGH VERY ROUGH AND ALOT MISSING PARTS ,SKINS ,AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE,BUT I LOADED UP THE CAR HAULER AND WENT DOWN THERE!HERES WHAT I WALKED UP ON! THEY EVEN HELPED ME LOAD EM',, MY WIFE IS GONNA FREAK WHEN THESE SURFACE AT THE HOUSE! LOL THE PHILLIPS PUMPS I THINK ARE MY FAVORITE THEY REMIND ME OF E.T!

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DIESEL #181984 Fri Apr 02 2010 03:30 PM
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Hey, sounds like the price was right! Good parts haul if nothing else.
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Holy smokes thats the way to work it!!!

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That building is where you live and you didn't know it??????
LOOK under it!!!!!!
LOOK in the attic!!!!!!!!
That is where the good stuff will be hiding, I have found some mint signage UNDER buildings like that.

Once found 3 opaline, 2 HC truck door signs ,a sinclair credit card sign. 3 curved Large lead signs in a box UNDER the building.
Spiders, mice , snakes, couldn't scare me after finding that....I needed a cigarett afterwards though>>>LOL


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A friend of mine found a Visible that had been rolled under the dock, still had the 15" globe w/ lenses on top to !

Dick Bennett #181998 Fri Apr 02 2010 05:02 PM
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I THINK YOU MEAN #5 (ALIVE)? NOT E.T? LOL!


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im gonna look more today,there's plenty of craw space under the building,i did peak my head under the building but i did not craw under there,it looked like a bunch of very old ply wood,anyways im gonna really get under there today,where i went wrong was mentioning it to my wife,she's not even kind of ok with any of it ! i probably had glitter in my freakin eyes i was so thrilled from the whole experience yesterday,and "literally" she ***** on my parade like always! mad we had plans to go to round top antique fair today!that aint happening !so it looks like the car lot is gonna get decorated with pumps!anyways ,there is a lot of other stuff that i will rummage through,here are a couple of more pics of stuff that i dont know if i wanna get quite yet! i seriously dont know what i would do with some of this stuff,but i hate to watch it get trashed!

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Don't worry about it Chris, there are 1000's of new wives out there but old gas pumps are getting hard to find. LOLOLOLOL

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Congrats diesel........ if you have access to a metal-detector you had better take one with you especially if the building has a loading dock. I have talked to guys that have found signs under them, but they do get covered over by dirt over time.
Great find just be sure you don't leave anything behind.

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Good Luck, I am guessing you couldn't get your wife to hold the flashlight for you while you are under there.


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Good job, take anything if it is free.


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Is there a doctor in the house? I think we need one.

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FOUND A "BUNCH" OF TRICO WIPER BLADE REFILL'S THE BOXES ARE COOL!ACTUALLY THEY GO TO THE WIPER CABINET THAT IS SHOWN IN THE VERY LAST PIC TO THE FAR RIGHT, HAS A FINA LOGO ON THE CABINET,I DID NOT KNOW WHAT THAT WAS WHEN I TOOK THE PHOTO BUT WHEN YOU OPEN IT,IT HAS RACKS OF DIFFERENT BLADE REFILLS "TRICO" AND A COOL DECAL WHEN YOU OPEN THE CABINET ,IT SHOWS YOU WHATS WHAT,AND MODEL #'S AND STUFF LIKE THAT!


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FOUND THESE UNDER THE GULF BUILDING!ALOT OF STUFF IS FINA THAT WAS AROUND,THERE WERE LIKE 5 OF THESE AND 5 MORE THAT WERE PAINTED !

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