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After a couple years of American Pickers, spring of this year, my wife and I were walking through an outside antique mall and I bought this. Paid $7 I'm sure I will always keep it.
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Steve Coppens Always interested in Sunoco items! Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
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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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First sign I ever bought. Flange sign pounded flat, looks to be cleared and back side is shot. Didn't get the sign I went to bid on and took this home as a conciliation prize. Became totally infected with sign buying disease. The rest is history.
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The graphic detail on the Portage sign is wonderful! What year is it?
What started me on this list...
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Didn't start with oil and gas, It was Railroad that got me into sign collecting as that's where I work, but I saw this Wayne Visible on craigslist and I was bit I kept it for awhile then sold it and bought a Tokheim 39 and did my 1st restoration and it's gotten outta hand since then! Once I got bit I couldn't leave the garage alone so I had to clean it up a bit to make the collection look good. and it's grown even larger sinc this picture was taken, I'm proud to say "my name is Bob and I'm an ADDICT!"
Always looking for Frontier and Beeline items.
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Didn't start with oil and gas, It was Railroad that got me into sign collecting as that's where I work, but I saw this Wayne Visible on craigslist and I was bit I kept it for awhile then sold it and bought a Tokheim 39 and did my 1st restoration and it's gotten outta hand since then! Once I got bit I couldn't leave the garage alone so I had to clean it up a bit to make the collection look good. and it's grown even larger sinc this picture was taken, I'm proud to say "my name is Bob and I'm an ADDICT!" LOL!! Out of hand?? NAAAHHH... I wouldn't say.... more "complex".
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Great thread! Many years ago,my son Kens four wheeler was stolen from our front yard.( I had warned him not to park it there) almost a year later,I got a call from the lake county sheriffs dept that it had been found in prestonsburg Ky.well,we took a ride out to pick it up,a nine hr drive. Had to go and pick it up at a junkyard,and it was in the hills/boonies. While there, I asked the owner if he had any pumps laying around." Wahll .. I got some up there up top of the hill" now I had already bought my first pump,but hadn't been bitten with the bug yet.when I saw these,I thought OMG "visible s " I had no idea what they were,or what the value of them was.when he said he wanted 100.00 I countered with 50.00 wound up bringing them home for 75.00 thought the wife was gonna shoot me when I came home with that bunch of rust.thats how I found oldgas,and caught the bug.
Looking for gas,oil related clocks,especially neon and spinners .clock repair available. Mick
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I sold the first item that got me into this hobby last year. A 42" 1930 D/S Porc TEXACO station sign. Purchased at Carlisle Fall 1984 for $85 and sold for about 8X that 27 years later!
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here is my 1st pump I restored in the late 1990's
1st pump
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Roger, I hope you don't mind?....
Looking for Tide Water/ Tide Water-Associated/ Tidewater items
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Actually Bob I have them mounted at a 90 degree angle,in my anti-gravity room so I can fit more pumps in there. lol But, seriously how do you rotate a photo before and after a post ? thanks inadvance
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Here it is and not a bad way to start i think it was my first peice of petro. It was covering a hole on a barn. And i dont wish i had it back.
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Hunt long and hard the good stuff still out there. Jonathan lowry.
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My first item was a sign but it wasn't petro related, was a Sun-Drop soda sign which got me into collecting. Then I got my first petro item a Bennett 541 and I had to make room for the constant addiction of wanting more
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Nice sinclair collection sundropman05!!
Looking for any cans! PM me what ya got!
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This Bennett 541 was what got me started in 1995. I restored it in 1995 and here it is today.
I likeShell
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