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Here is the start to my Red Indian Gas station I built a few years ago in my double car garage back wall. It was a blank canvas and I got my inspiration from one photo of a Red Indian gas station photograph I found on the internet. Please follow along and I hope you enjoy. Will be adding a lot more pictures of it’s progress. It started with my Wayne 866 rough pump I was very fortunate to buy.
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Pump I planned on rough restoring, decided it was going to be Red Indian on one side of the pump and White Flash on the other side of the pump as I had two White Flash porcelain panels already in my collection, and they fit the Wayne 866 or 60 pump perfectly.From the pictures, you can see very bad fading and will require reproduction parts.
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Here is a picture of the extra White Flash panel I had to use. It’s in better shape. I have included a picture of a reproduction decal I’m going to use on the pump. I aged it by spraying paint stripper very lightly on it. Last picture I could see under the old red painted panel some lettering and a date.
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Pump is starting to come along nicely now. Both sides going to be totally different. I was really pleased after sanding the red panel and finding this name and date under the paint, being careful not to fully remove any lettering or numbers, and with the aged decal added, I was very pleased with the progress.
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Now after fitting the panels, it was time to take the pump apart to get ready for the new parts, and tap a lot of the rusty screw threads. Did all the wiring at this point as well for it to light up.
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So here is the pump with new parts added on both sides along side my visible pump I had restored a few years earlier.
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The sight glass I smeared with a little grease to make it look like the old gas had dried up and was dirty. I thought better looking than shiny new glass . Again I’m aging the pump to look old and well used. So now it’s time to work on the back concrete wall to look something similar to this picture I found on the internet.
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Next I covered up my visible pump, so not to get any paint on it. I painted that back cinder block wall in the back of my garage a creamy off white color. Going white would be to clean and bright. I taped up a fake window on my solid door to give it that old gas station looking door.
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Came up with this modern outdoor pole to use as a station lighter to put beside the Wayne 866 pump. Painted a pile of wood trim to add to my cinder block wall and painted the sides of my steps going to the door in the Red Indian red paint. I’m going to incorporate my Gilbarco air meter into this project somehow.
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Will be incorporating this station lighter top to my project soon. Starting to put up my painted wooden trim on the back wall. Started laying out the shape of the gas station with painters tape.
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The wall detail continues. Lots of masking sizing and painting.
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Adding red paint to the curved section. Now it’s time to incorporate that Red Indian cement casting I painted as shown in my past listing.
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Red Indian casting now hung on the wall, red curve painted and blue sky painted on the back of my garage wall. It’s coming along nicely.
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Painted the steps grey, sponged in some fake clouds in my sky by dabbing white paint lightly with a new sponge. Sorry, but I’m no artist, best I could do while standing on an 8 foot ladder.
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Painted the door trim black, changed the door handle and lock to black as well. I experimented with a picture of the inside of a general store, had it blown up to window size picture, 2 way taped it to my door and made a wooden frame painted black that i attached over top of it to hopefully give the visual affect of looking through straight into a gas station convenience store. I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Visible pump lit up now.
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