Old gas stations

[Ghostsoldier]

One of my favorite lines, in a movie full of great ones.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

So many choice lines.
On weekends, I'll drive my 1940s pickup & coveralls and head on out to small towns nearby similar to this one.

"Mama said you was hit by a train!"
"Blooey nuthin' left"
"Just a grease spot on the L&N"

 

[LizzieMaine]

They ain't even old-timey!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

"It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." - Everett McGill

Rob

 

[Benzadmiral]

Noir.

Rob

Reminds me of a ship -- the "Gulf" being the conning tower/bridge.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Rob

Rob

. . . "Beep beep! Beep beep! The horn went beep beep beep --!"

 

[3fingers]

A friend of my mother's had a Metropolitan until I was about 10 years old. It was kind of bronze colored where that one is green. I thought it looked like a bathtub with a windshield back then, but I'd take one to drive to town for ice cream now.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[GHT]

In this photo you can see the sign museum, put there by Robin Barnard who has spent 40 years amassing an amazing assortment of motoring memorabilia. Click on the link and see old signs, fuel pumps and just about everything that you can remember from the era. Included in that link is the garage as it was when it was a working business. Don't be surprised by the LHD American Buick, back in the 50's when we had US bases all over the UK, it was not uncommon for a serviceman to bring his car over, then at the end of his tour of duty, the car would be sold, probably for a better price, owing to the novelty factor, than taking it back home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...etrol-station-set-make-owner-millionaire.html

 

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In this photo you can see the sign museum, put there by Robin Barnard who has spent 40 years amassing an amazing assortment of motoring memorabilia. Click on the link and see old signs, fuel pumps and just about everything that you can remember from the era. Included in that link is the garage as it was when it was a working business. Don't be surprised by the LHD American Buick, back in the 50's when we had US bases all over the UK, it was not uncommon for a serviceman to bring his car over, then at the end of his tour of duty, the car would be sold, probably for a better price, owing to the novelty factor, than taking it back home
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Did service men get some sort of special shipping rate for their cars as I have to image shipping a car overseas was very expensive back then?

 

[1930artdeco]

You paid for him to ship it over....and we thank you. Just one of the perks of being in the service.

Mike

 

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Did service men get some sort of special shipping rate for their cars as I have to image shipping a car overseas was very expensive back then?

If you wish to take it with you, your personal car is shipped by Uncle Sam when you get your orders.

 

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If you wish to take it with you, your personal car is shipped by Uncle Sam when you get your orders.

Wow, that's interesting. So, literally, if an infantry man wanted his car shipped over, Uncle Sam would do it for free?

The cost and logistics seem crazy even assuming - I'm guessing - very few took advantage of it.

And, then, it sounds incredibly impractical to even have a car over there. I assume the car would be kept at some main camp well behind the front lines (or in England before D-Day) as - in WWII - these guys were on the move all over Europe.

It's funny that I don't remember ever coming across this in all the many, many, many books and articles I've read and documentaries I've seen on WWII.

Great info - thank you.

 

[2jakes]

Wow, that's interesting. So, literally, if an infantry man wanted his car shipped over, Uncle Sam would do it for free?

The cost and logistics seem crazy even assuming - I'm guessing - very few took advantage of it.

And, then, it sounds incredibly impractical to even have a car over there. I assume the car would be kept at some main camp well behind the front lines (or in England before D-Day) as - in WWII - these guys were on the move all over Europe.

It's funny that I don't remember ever coming across this in all the many, many, many books and articles I've read and documentaries I've seen on WWII.

Great info - thank you.

Most likely an officer.
On a lower scale when I was overseas, I sent home the finest chinaware
available for my mom, complete stereo components and speakers plus the top-of-the-line Nikon cameras with every Nikon filter and lenses at Tokyo prices and shipped home free... compliments of Uncle Sam.

Funny thing about the chinaware. My mom was so afraid somebody in the family breaking it that she hardly used it until I got home on leave.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Motorfluid... whatever that is. Oil, perhaps?

Rob

 

[3fingers]

Motorfluid... whatever that is. Oil, perhaps?

Rob

Bah. Motor fluid is motor fluid.

 

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[3fingers]

I was speaking of the peacetime military where you might be sent to Germany or wherever for an extended tour of duty. Several of my high school classmates had personal cars overseas. One fellow I knew had his 4 cylinder Chevy S10 pickup in Germany. He said it was fine around town, but rather overmatched on the autobahn. It stayed in Germany because he sold it for more than he paid for it new.

 

[LizzieMaine]

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I bet the jobber for Mason Cords and the jobber for Miller Cords get into awful fights in that town.

 

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Might be a repeat: