Man cave wall art.

[bluefury361]

Here a couple pictures of oil pumps made into lamps .I made 1st one from a Dino oil pump .The last one i bought finished. The black rack on the fireplace came from Sable Chevrolet in Pgh i bought at auction after they closed they had them in the showroom holding sales brochures i use as a magazine rack.

I used a old Pepsi cooler to make the stand for the slot machine's. The cabinet company that made the bar countertop made one for the top of the cooler. The picture of the U Select it vending machine is as I found it at Antique shop in Ca all original paint .I had a freight forwarder that I worked with crate it and ship it back to pgh for me.


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WOW...! What a great room. Can I come over? LOL.

 

[bluefury361]

I bought and restored three of these Wayne/ Sunoco blender pumps several years ago. Sold two of them. I had the face and lower door grafics custom silk screened. The frame work and all exterior panels were powder coated.

 

[commando1]

These Select-A-Grade Sunoco pumps were the ultimate.
On Fridays I always filled up with 260.
Mondays... 190.

 

[3175375]

These Select-A-Grade Sunoco pumps were the ultimate.
On Fridays I always filled up with 260.
Mondays... 190.

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What is the reference number (260)?

 

[commando1]

What is the reference number (260)?

It's the way they measured octane back in the day.

 

[300rag]

What is the reference number (260)?

"In 1956, Sunoco introduced "custom blending" pumps, an innovation that allowed customers of Sunoco service stations to choose from several octane ratings through a single pump.[5] Sunoco stations offered as many as eight grades of "Custom Blended" gasolines from its "Dial A Grade" pumps ranging from subregular Sunoco 190 to Sunoco 260, the latter a super-premium grade of 102 octane that was advertised as the "highest octane pump gas" and very popular with operators of V8-powered muscle cars of the 1960s"

 

[3175375]

"In 1956, Sunoco introduced "custom blending" pumps, an innovation that allowed customers of Sunoco service stations to choose from several octane ratings through a single pump.[5] Sunoco stations offered as many as eight grades of "Custom Blended" gasolines from its "Dial A Grade" pumps ranging from subregular Sunoco 190 to Sunoco 260, the latter a super-premium grade of 102 octane that was advertised as the "highest octane pump gas" and very popular with operators of V8-powered muscle cars of the 1960s"

I knew that Sunoco had ‘dial your octane’ pumps, but I haven’t known octane rated at anything other than R+M / 2.

 

[crazyboutwagons]

Nice job on the Sunoco pump. I have a Tokiem 39 to restore i have a complete set of NOS parts to redo the meter portion and a lot of repro parts such as hose guard,hose,globe etc i bought years ago at a show called Chip's Dixie Gas in Seveireville,Tn .Chip own's a antique store and had a gas pump junkyard in the back yard and every year he hold's a gas pump & Petrolinia swapmeet.It is a great show .I sold stuff there one year and i think i bought more than i sold, lots of vendors there maybe 40-50. check it out at Dixie Gas Sevierville, TN.

 

[bluefury361]

The numbers to select were product grade, not octane ratings. 260 was the highest octane that could be bought at a pump. Somewhere around 100-105.
there was a Sunoco grade 270 that was around 110 octane. The only pump I ever saw with it was at the Detroit Dragway back in the 60's.

 

[tallhair]

So we’re these Sunoco pumps filled with stuff to customize the blend mix or something?

 

[300rag]

So we’re these Sunoco pumps filled with stuff to customize the blend mix or something?

I believe there were two lines into the pump, and the selector varied the mix percentage from 100%reg/0%premium to 0%reg/100%premium to get the various blends.

 

[tallhair]

I believe there were two lines into the pump, and the selector varied the mix percentage from 100%reg/0%premium to 0%reg/100%premium to get the various blends.

thanks! That makes sense.

based on the multiple options must have had valves that could produce about 9 different ratios