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I tried to do a search but came up with next to nothing. I want to see pictures of peoples garages, basements, man caves with their oil and gas collections... I'm looking for idea's on how to display my things.

here is mine, I bought some showcases from ikea, they are not expensive and don't take much place to display















and the attic, I'm still working to have it remodeled, I already repainted all in white and will paint two walls in red soon

WOW!!! That is quite a collection!! Very nice stuff.
Is that first room your bedroom?

variety nicely displayed..

Basement/gameroom with custom made ceiling I made to look like an old barn.

Wow! Matt , you have put together a nice collection!

Love that TOK-860.

And a couple from my workshop.

Wow ! You got good taste in signs

Awesome collections and thanks for sharing!

yes that's my bedroom

nice stuffs mmatteson

Nice!!!!

Thanks! Awesome Bedroom. Bet you have Sweet dreams of more collectables to come!

Here is my basement all the globes and pumps light up and I am now completely out of room lol.

Wow! Nice collection. Love the recessed wall display!

Here is what I call my Tydol/Flying A ad glass wall.... Most of my gas gauge sticks also have found a place on this wall...



Some of my Veedol Qts, Imperials and 5 Qts have found a home alongside the ad glass.....

S932...looks great I wish I had a basement it would be set up like yours. But out of room...I wish I had that much wall space left...lol. I see plenty of inches left...get buying

Great color on that basement floor in all the rooms.

When I built my house my wife got to design the upstairs and I got one room in the basement. She just didn't no it would be one big room lol. I acid stained the floors so when people are over and someone drops something on the floor it's no big deal. I might be able to add a few more signs lol. Thanks for all the good comments.

Really nice collections everyone!

s932, I feel stupid asking this, but what is the little red box at the end of your counter?

Looks like a phone to me.

It' to call the fire department, When his buddies burn down the house !!!

Yes its a call box to call the fire dept. Hi octane if my buddies and I burn down the house we are in trouble since we are all fireman. Lol

Here is probably what you don't want to do with a collection in the basement. Get so much stuff over the years that you either have to stop collecting (for me not likely) or plan on knocking down your old small garage and plan to rebuild it as big as the authorities will allow. Then you can display more of the collection as it expands. Sort of like the universe's never ending expansion. I am still in the garage cleaning out stage but that is coming along slowly. As you can tell by the photos, I do like the can racks and the old display cases. The only repros are a few of the can racks which I will replace eventually with originals as I find them, but for now they work okay. Cheers, Don.

Thought I would also mention that I was somewhat disappointed in the new book 'The Fine Art of Collecting & Displaying Petroliana'. Some great research history of many interesting oil companies but only 6 pages of actual collection displays. It really doesn't live up to its title. I have always been interested in how other collectors design and display their collections because of my museum and art history background. It is truly an art form in itself. Cheers, Don,

WOW!! I love the oil racks!! Well displayed!

Fantastic collections. Don, I have a wife that is a little accident prone and the first thing I thought of when I saw yours is what could happen if she walked through it!

Your collection of Canadian items and signs are really great to look at because I see so many things that I know. Thanks all for showing some of your items.