Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana BOTW: "BUYS OF THE WEEK!" - Mar 18th - 24th 2013

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Hey Metro,Chadrock has NOS hosekits for one of those.

Purchased this Gilmore canvas banner. Thanks to 57tbirdkid for spotting it for me.

Banner Looks Great Dennis!

Picked up this super clean Nu Enamel Flange Sign. This company made house paint, but also made paint for your car to brush On.

Bought this from a fellow Old Gas member and it came out of the late Mike Rhein collection. been looking for one for a while and after one sold at Peotone @ Matthews auction for $1800.00, I'm very happy that this one didn't cost me an arm and both legs!

I finally got something worth posting. This is made of very thin plastic and is in awesome shape for the age and poor quality of the material they used.

Hey Ed,looks like you been on the hunt,good job.

So I had another good week(day really). I started out at one of my clients bulk plants that morning and he let me check around. I picked up the Atlas and Standard cans along with the womens and no smoking porcelain signs for free. On the drive back, I passed an old abandoned gas station and noticed someone was in the process of putting a new roof on it. As I slowed down to look, I also noticed that the house next door had a workshop in the back with Sinclair signs on it. The shop door was open and I could make out a man working on a car inside. As I drove on, I kept thinking I should stop and make contact with him (thinking he may own the station next door). Not wanting to get shot, I drove a bit further. Finally I threw caution to the wind and turned around. He ended up being a great guy! He didn't own the station (but the sinclair signs did come from it). He said two weeks ago the new couple that were fixing it up found a bunch of cans it the attic. He proceeded to pull out a leaf bag full of old cans which he saved from being thrown away. They were incredible. He let me have some of them in exchange for some of the atlas cans and no smoking signs I had gotten free earlier that day. It wasn't until I got them home and cleaned up did I find out about the Sooner Queen can. What a day!

This is a neat item. An AC oil filter salesman case. It has cut open oil filters that the saleman can show the difference in internal quality between brands. I comes with instuctions on what to point out as bad with the others' filters.

I bought 26 cans last week then the guy calls and says he found more 52 more...












Ive NEVER seen this Aroway can before...

Love the hiolube can

Picked up my Bennett 132 this weekend. This is my first clock face pump and I hope more too come! I had the original crown decal and globe already and decided to stick them on the pump. Very pleased of the way it turned out!

The Hiolube is out of Birmingham, al
Mile maker out of Selma, al
Sooner queen and Stay-Ready is Salyer oil out of OK
arist-o-lube was like tallahassee, fl I think

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Griffin--Nice find on the cans! I really like the Sooner Queen! Looks to be pretty nice condition!

I picked up some nice stuff today and got this great 2 great looking cans from Ron and Dan. Thanks guys for those.

Last sign

Added a new pump to the trade stock, drove in winter weather on the way down. Got their with 15 minutes to spare.

Then I got a keeper in the mail that fits my wall perfectly. Now just need to work on a few upgrades and finding a sinclair aircraft... a little patience and I am sure I will find one.

Wall looks MightY Fine Scott!!

Here are my recent finds.

Mac

Hahaha, Jon that can looked better on my shelf.

Glad you got it my friend

My iphone seems to only take terrible pictures anymore for some reason.

Repro., fantasy, but I liked it.

I like that!

I know thats the only way I will be able to get some signs I like is repops, some are way out of my budget!!

Hi Few new 5 quarts--thanks Don

Got 2 Sunoco Waynes and 2 60's Saturday.

Here's one of my favorite buys that was waiting for me when I returned home last week.

Cool sign from ebay. Canada. Info request in general forum.

Just picked up these 2 cans today, don't know much about the Conoco, but I liked the graphics on it and the price was right!
so.. what the heck?

That conoco is killer!!!!! And rare to?

Estate sale yesterday. Howdy Doody on a snow can, cool!

boy Bob,you got a rare and great find on the Conoco can,
Alan

Seems like last week was "can week" for most. Great job everyone!

Here is what I got cans as well lol

Is this petroliana? You decide. I collect vintage toy garages (I'm out of room for gas pumps!). I recently bought this steel toy garage on eBay. It was made in 1953 by a tinsmith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fortunately, the article describing this tinsmith, Ben Zirzow, which was published in 1961 in the Milwaukee Journal was attached beneath the floor of the garage. You can read the article on Google if you Google “Zirzow, tinsmith, toymaker.” He said he used fourteen 5-quart oil cans to construct each toy garage that is about 12 by 18 inches. (Imagine how common and abundant the oil cans once were).

Ranch pump, here in Virginia where I mam, we have actual 1-1 garages built IDENTCAL to that scale tin replica . hey, tat's a kwell piece an yeah , put one of my scalepumps an assign out on it an yeah , it's real petro !!!!!!!!! Ed Shaver

Early Pennzoil porcelain sign. Note the text with the round P and O. No highlighting of letters that go through the full bell, and the straight text above and below Pennzoil. Even the % symbol is different. Approx 31" X 19" mounted in original riveted frame. I believe the vertical side bar and long extension bar are not original as the oval frame is a "lollipop" type without its pole and base.