Vintage Photo Of The Day

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[john k]

If I was younger and had a few thousand extra,  would build a 2 bay Texaco station just like that, put it out back of the machine shed.   Full concrete apron, 2 pumps, a 4 post drive on hoist, and a 2 post hoist.  Restroom, bunch of old gas station signs.  Sit in there and have somebody drive over the hose, "ding-ding". 

[stokester]

If I was younger and had a few thousand extra,  would build a 2 bay Texaco station just like that, put it out back of the machine shed.   Full concrete apron, 2 pumps, a 4 post drive on hoist, and a 2 post hoist.  Restroom, bunch of old gas station signs.  Sit in there and have somebody drive over the hose, "ding-ding".

"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star"

[muddy]

If I was younger and had a few thousand extra,  would build a 2 bay Texaco station just like that, put it out back of the machine shed.   Full concrete apron, 2 pumps, a 4 post drive on hoist, and a 2 post hoist.  Restroom, bunch of old gas station signs.  Sit in there and have somebody drive over the hose, "ding-ding".

Few thousand? More like few million in this day and age.

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[john k]

Right,,,   40 x 70 concrete block building, +20k for concrete work.  10k for tire machine and balancer.   Place to put my air powered grease cannister, 80-90 tank, and my 2 hand crank oil dispensers,  tin Firestone and B.F.Goodrich signs, hang up the old V-Belt hangers with some dry belts,  enough of the good rubber smell for atmosphere.  Find a big Aamco brake lathe.  Paint the curbs and islands red.  2 1950s pumps, restored, working, about 3 k each.  Be a fun way to burn up the extra cash, that I dont have anyway.  Oh, a tall, red Coca-Cola machine,  Right?  And the insurance for such a gem!    Had thoughts once of getting one of the vintage stations in a town but they got removed soon as the signs came down,  city council has to have to it all look pretty, ya know. 

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[jabberwoki]

Wouldn't you love one of those old Shell signs for the shop.

[goodfellow]

Wouldn't you love one of those old Shell signs for the shop.

absolutely! Any vintage sign like that would be the cats a$$ in any shop.

[slip knot]

Right,,,   40 x 70 concrete block building, +20k for concrete work.  10k for tire machine and balancer.   Place to put my air powered grease cannister, 80-90 tank, and my 2 hand crank oil dispensers,  tin Firestone and B.F.Goodrich signs, hang up the old V-Belt hangers with some dry belts,  enough of the good rubber smell for atmosphere.  Find a big Aamco brake lathe.  Paint the curbs and islands red.  2 1950s pumps, restored, working, about 3 k each.  Be a fun way to burn up the extra cash, that I dont have anyway.  Oh, a tall, red Coca-Cola machine,  Right?  And the insurance for such a gem!    Had thoughts once of getting one of the vintage stations in a town but they got removed soon as the signs came down,  city council has to have to it all look pretty, ya know.

The curbs and islands were white, I painted them enough.

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[jabberwoki]

Yeah i wouldn't get under that bus either , looks unstable to me?

[slip knot]

Yeah i wouldn't get under that bus either , looks unstable to me?

He still raising it. Thats where the controls were. Those were pretty cool lifts. That one looks like it grabbed the axles to lift it. There is a track in the floor that runs the rear lift forward and backwards to get under the axle. Had one at the stealership I worked at back in the 80s.

[john k]

Nice hoist, but took your full concentration, as one could get a vehicle going up at a 45 degree angle, very dangerous, the posts were controlled independant of one another.  Sure like all the new car pics, but they make one aware of the passage of time.