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glassbottlesrule
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« on: July 08, 2005, 06:48:41 pm » |
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Just got back from a grand tour of Tennessee and Kentucky. I seen tons of 60's and 70's era can vendors sitting outside stores. The condition of these machines just amazed a northerner like me, I'm used to everything that old being beat down and rusted through. Couldn't find anything worth trying to take home though. One highlight was the Schmidt Museum of Coke-Cola Memorabila in Elizabethtown, KY. A great place with some awesome machines I never thought I would see. A ICY-O 120, an industrial carton cooler and the holy grail a Vendo Decapper. All the machines are in awesome unrestored condition. It was only after leaving and getting a couple hundred miles away that I realized I was so geeked to see the machines I forgot to snap any pics.
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halehouse
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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2005, 06:52:33 pm » |
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I know what you mean. At the end of June, my family took a trip to see my parents in SW Virginia about 4 hours from me. I really should take pics of all the things I know of along the trip. I can think of at 3 chest coolers, a few Coca Cola fishtail signs, a ton of gas pumps. Each trip I see something new along a side road.
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halehouse
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2005, 09:48:25 pm » |
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Here is one picture I took of some pumps on my last trip. It was the only picture I took. I would love to go through the old garage they sit in front of. Can't tell much driving by. I don't know much about pumps.
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Vendo 63 Stylestar (Restored)
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sodaworks
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2005, 10:30:36 pm » |
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They are Tolkiem 39's 
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TERRY@SODAWORKS RESTORATIONS
Lots of Round Top machines
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Eric
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2005, 11:11:04 pm » |
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Look like 300 models... nice pumps.. Embossed chromes strips along the front “Tokheim” very cool.... That model was my first pump!Great size!
39s are more Deco and sought after..... with the spinner in the face.... I think...
Eric
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2005, 01:08:03 am » |
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Here's a silly question...
If you found a neat old pump that someone was willing to sell and it was still attached, how the heck do they remove the pump from the ground/gas supply?
I drive past an old farm quite often that has a beautiful old pump (with globe on top) just sitting by it's lonesome, still attached to the ground on their land. Everytime I pass it, I'm tempted to go up to the house and offer to buy it.
Sorry if this is a really dumb question... I know absolutely nothing about old gas pumps.
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halehouse
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2005, 12:18:44 pm » |
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I wonder the same thing. I see them like the ones in my photo and outside of barns and it seems like it would be a bear getting them. Although someone is getting them, they have started to disappear over the past few years.
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« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2005, 11:04:08 pm » |
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They are really quite easy to remove. Just unscrew the pipe union below the pump with a pipewrench. If it is mounted to the ground it will usually have 4 bolts (one in each corner) behind the side panels. Turn off electrical source and disconnent wires and your done.  '>
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davethebirdman
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2005, 01:34:04 am » |
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Okay Okay
Will you people please stop talking about Pumps. Its bad enough justifying Jukes and Soda Machines to "her indoors" without now telling her I NEED a gas pump.
Those ones in the picture are just great. We don't have anything like that on site over here. The vast majority of Petrol stns are The Oil Giants. (Esso BP etc) The one man garages are long gone along with all the equipment.
One of those pumps would look "The Biz" in my soon to be built game(s) room.
BTW - Petrol is almost a £1.00 a litre here. Costs me nearly £50.00 to fill the car up. (about $85.00)
Dave
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