Found at scrapyard

1legonutt · Nov 8, 2014

I found this at the scrapyard today I opened it up looks like it might still work parts are avalable online was almost a Toyota.

Rob

dr sportster · Nov 8, 2014

That's like finding a five hundred dollar bill.

SweetFeet · Nov 8, 2014

Is it a parking meter? Or some kind of gas pump control?

1legonutt · Nov 8, 2014

Air station turn the handle to set the pressure and fill your tire

Mike (WA) · Nov 8, 2014

Hard to believe that some people are so oblivious to the value of obvious antiques that they just pitch it in the trash. Throw it in the car, stop at the first antique store you come to, and either sell it to them or consign it. Someone will buy that for their rec room or man cave in a heartbeat, just because it looks cool and doesn't take up much floor space.

SweetFeet · Nov 8, 2014

Right...
OR he could drive by our place and ditch it - would look great in our rust garden.

Wonder if it was last painted in 1976... seems to have a red, white and blue theme. (They did that around here to fire hydrants in '76.)

pburg · Nov 8, 2014

Or how about this?---that someone was throwing away.

49716 · Nov 8, 2014

probably painted in the 60's, I remember my dad getting a pump from the fuel supplier in the sixties that was rw&b, it had been in a station that was Leonard or Total brand.

jennifer408 · Nov 8, 2014

FLOLDFORD · Nov 8, 2014

There was one just like that at my Grandfathers Standard Oil station in the 70's Wish I had been smart enough to save it from the scrapers! I check the air in many a tire with it when I was working for him back then

ypop · Nov 8, 2014

You need to find a bell and for your driveway!
Ypop

unclemerle · Nov 8, 2014

I work at a scrap yard and wish that would of showed up on my watch. Did pick a Dearborn 2-14 plow out of the scrap pile that still had the origonal lathes on it, the origonal third arm was also with it.

mkirsch · Nov 8, 2014

I love how you wail and moan when some "rare, valuable, treasure" gets sent to the scrapyard, yet NOBODY ever wants to step up and take responsibility for preserving them.

Things like that are always "valuable" until you try to get rid of them. Fair price? Forget it. Cut the price in half? Still no action. 1/4 the original price? Not a peep from anyone.

At least it's worth a minimum of 8 cents per pound at the scrap yard.

It's not valuable to me. It's in my way. Nobody seems to want it. It's obviously junk. That's how it works.

SweetFeet · Nov 8, 2014

WHAT?!!

Wow, great save!

37chief · Nov 8, 2014

I wonder how many people don't know what it is? To them it is trash. Stan

Anonymous-0 · Nov 8, 2014

They don't make 500.00 dollar bills.
Oar did you mean, 5 onehundred dollar bills?

Hobo,NC · Nov 8, 2014

This was going to the scrap yard in 1979... My first shop was beside a old local oil co. They were having a clean up and told me I could have anything I wanted just to haul it off... I passed up several hundred old gas pumps

free...All I wanted was this I turned down a $1000 for it... Its nicer than it looks in the pix open it up and it looks brand new...

Tim(nj) · Nov 9, 2014

My cousin used to volunteer at the township cleanup days. One time an upwardly mobile type who had recently bought a house in the township brought in some 'junk' the previous owner left in the garage to throw in the dumpster. My cousin came home that day with almost $1000 worth of S-K Wayne tools!

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