Country boys only!
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medxam
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I bought my first gas for my Model A Ford at one of these when I was 14 years old, 60 years ago! It was .17 cents a gallon and you had to hand pump how much gas you wanted up into the reservoir, before opening the hose valve. The owner cleaned my windshield and checked my oil!
medxam
medxam
There's a collector in Rochester, MN who has three of them on his front lawn. They've been rebuilt and and are absolutely beautiful. I saw them 20 years ago when I took my wife to the clinic down there.
Yep, have seen them.
Actually used one at an old service station, grocery, feed, general store that my family owned and operated when I was a kid.
Pump it up and drain it out!
Remember the old cars that only used gravity feed gas tanks and you might have to back up a hill?
Gosh, I must be gettin old.
Actually used one at an old service station, grocery, feed, general store that my family owned and operated when I was a kid.
Pump it up and drain it out!
Remember the old cars that only used gravity feed gas tanks and you might have to back up a hill?
Gosh, I must be gettin old.
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THE PILGRIM
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Route 66 has had many different routes across New Mexico. One of these routes went north Albuquerque to Santa Fe.
On this route you encounter a steep hill called La Bajada Hill. Nowadays you on I-25, mash a little more gas and go up the hill.
It's been reported that in the old days model T's used to backup this hill.
They of course didn't have a fuel pump and reverse was their highest ratio gear.
Had two of them on the ranch when I was a kid. Used them all the time.
I think there is still one in use on my cousins ranch.
My grandparents homesteaded at the bottom of a hill. It was standard procedure to have to back up for about 1/2 a mile to get out of the place.
I think there is still one in use on my cousins ranch.
My grandparents homesteaded at the bottom of a hill. It was standard procedure to have to back up for about 1/2 a mile to get out of the place.
BobC357
Member
Eeee gads! Am I that old? I've used one of these! medxam is right on how they work. It would be cool to have a functioning one today.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
I have wrote before of being raised in a country general store in wisconsin that my grandpa built. My mom raised me in it until after world war two. We had the same gas pumps. I might owe my life to one indirectly. Right across the highway from the front of our store was a artisan fountain. It was originaly a horse trough and it was later blocked in with stone work with a arch over it. It had a monument of names of all the local boys off in the war etc. It was a place to pull over and get a drink that was colder than ice.
I was a kid and climbed the arch and fell off it square on my back in the ice water. I can still remember laying in the bottom in the fountain in shock that was about two or three times the size of a bath tub. It so happened that my dad was out in front of the store pumping gas for someone. Dad threw down the hose, ran across the road and pulled me out! Its also one of the first memory`s of my dad too.
Not long ago I found a picture of it when I was researching something on the net. If you follow this lead it shows a picture of that fountain and a story I gave about falling into it.
Wisconsin Historical Markers: Marker 455: The Auroraville Fountain
I was a kid and climbed the arch and fell off it square on my back in the ice water. I can still remember laying in the bottom in the fountain in shock that was about two or three times the size of a bath tub. It so happened that my dad was out in front of the store pumping gas for someone. Dad threw down the hose, ran across the road and pulled me out! Its also one of the first memory`s of my dad too.
Not long ago I found a picture of it when I was researching something on the net. If you follow this lead it shows a picture of that fountain and a story I gave about falling into it.
Wisconsin Historical Markers: Marker 455: The Auroraville Fountain
Hey, I've seen that one several times. I've been elk and bear hunting in the Gila many times with my nephew who lives in Las Cruces. Killed a couple of elk and last year chased a bear with hounds for 5 hours before he got away from us in some unbelievably rough canyons. Our mules; horses; and dogs were all worn out as well as the hunters but it was the most exciting hunt I've been on
Grandfathers brother (Great Uncle) had a country store.
Pump was not locked. I pumped and filled the container.
Got into trouble because it was Sunday.
Store was not open and Great Uncle did not like the filled pump.
Made people think the store was open.
Bekeart
Pump was not locked. I pumped and filled the container.
Got into trouble because it was Sunday.
Store was not open and Great Uncle did not like the filled pump.
Made people think the store was open.
Bekeart
snowman
Member
Someone near here has a real nicely preserved one in front of one of his outbuildings. Interesting pump.
Andy
Andy
Biginge
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Grandfather was a drilling superintendent for company out of Lisbon, La. We lived in company housing with his warehouse and pipe yard. Had one of those old pumps on site. I have pumped a many a gallon thru that old thing.
The first ranch I worked on as a kid in the early 1960s had one that we used to fill the tractors and trucks from. It had a 10 gallon glass globe on top and a long handle on the side that you used to pump the gas up to the globe and then gravity fed to the machine tank. Never failed to work and didn't need electricity. Good ol' times.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
My doctor has one in one of his rooms. He rides a harley, has all kinds of MC and car models. He also has a dog that follows him room to room to see the patients. A neat guy.
mjlabs
Member
^ now that's cool right there....
Whoa, now you are going back!!
A "service station" in my home town when I was in grade school and maybe still when I was in "junior high" had one. Never thought much about it at the time - that was just how things worked!!
My guess is that was late 1940's - but before 1950!!
Sure didn't need electricity to operate!!!
A "service station" in my home town when I was in grade school and maybe still when I was in "junior high" had one. Never thought much about it at the time - that was just how things worked!!
My guess is that was late 1940's - but before 1950!!
Sure didn't need electricity to operate!!!
The gas tank on a Model T Ford was under the front seat and, as mentioned by other posters, there was no fuel pump. My grandmother told me of getting gas with my grandfather and her having to get out of the T while he got gas.
I read about a Ford salesman who was selling a T to a farmer who lived on a steep hill. As he and the farmer were going uphill, the engine started to starve and the salesman whipped into a side road and started backing towards the farmer's house, bragging, " This car is so powerful, you can even back your way home." The farmer bought the car and soon found out that he HAD to back up to his home.
vonn
US Veteran
Seems as if I am not the only one on this forum getting older!
