MOTION SIGN MAN

This is a Service Station Equipment Co. or Bennett 76 gas pump. I traded a Harlem Globe Trotters pinball for this one. It was in pretty bad shape with only two sides and it was apparently hit with a car in the corner. I had a cnc machine cut out the new panels from the ones I had. They turned out perfect with all the holes in the right place. I straightened everything out, sand blasted, polished, chrome plated, painted and cleaned the rest.  The globe is reproduction as well as the corners and the face plates for the computer. The ad glass is an original glass from another pump. I had the design on the front made from another piece of advertising for DX to give it a unique look. I know it might make all the purest out there cringe but I just couldn't put a round porcelain sign or a repro sticker on this one.

This is an Erie? Gulf Gas Pump. I got this one from an Atlanta antique shop. It sat in that shop for three years before I bought it. I had no way of getting it back home to Pensacola so I drove back up a month later with a trailer and picked it up along with the porcelain GULF sign that went with it. It is all stainless and porcelain and is a great size for the house. I bought a polished aluminum globe for it and cleaned it up, otherwise it is as I found it.

This is a Bennett 766 gas pump which is my first pump and my first restoration. The current and final condition of this pump is phase two because the phase one restoration was pretty bad (Crylon Paint bad). I stripped it down, sandblasted it and put copious amounts of fiberglass on the rusted lower sections. It is now smooth and perfect with a high gloss lacquer paint job. I again painted this how I thougt it should be painted and put the appropriat, but probably not period correct,  globe, adglass and sign on it.

Accept for signage. This pump is all original. There were no reproduction parts for it when I did the final restoration.

This is a Wayne 515 which I bought locally from a little old lady who's husband died. He Collected old cars and subsequently ran across this and a whole bunch of other cool things that he left to his widow. She knew what she had and I wasn't going to beat her down on the price. Good for her. I bought it along with a porcelain Cities Service sign and a few other smaller advertising items. This one was a real challenge and took two years to finally complete. The metal skins are new along with the price sign and the globe which is a solid globe with Texaco printed on the glass. I chrome plated the cylinder rods........... because I wanted to. The cylinder is from another pump and is blue glass. Everything else is original including the porcelain curved Texaco sign.

If your wondering:
 Yes, I took the sheetrock out of the ceiling in order to get this thing in the garage.

It's a sickness.

This is a Wayne 60 gas pump just as I got it. I am going to restore it one day but for now I like it as it sits. It is straight and complete and has a great patina to it. I was approached by a local film producer who needed a gas pump for a movie he was making. I loaned him the pump and it is apparently in a movie called Scouts. I have not seen the movie.

My latest gas pump project is a Bennett 966 that I found in my freinds pump graveyard. I bought him lunch in exchange for hauling it off. I dismantled it; sand blasted everything and painted the frame. Click on the picture to view the restoration process. I will add more photos as it comes along.