Okay guys, how many of you have ever seen this Shell Oil Company brochure? It was printed in 1973 and is titled "Going for 100,000 Miles". It has photos of nine different cars on the front with the 71 Maverick at the bottom showing the Maverick went 173,396 miles. It outlasted all of the other cars tested by Shell using their Shell oil. It's basically just a little handout giving you tips on how to get 100,000 miles out of your car with 4 pages of questions and answers. The Maverick is shown on 4 different pages as you can see in my pics. What I found was most interesting was the fact that the Maverick was identified by model (Maverick) instead of like the rest of the cars which were identified by Make (Chevy, Pontiac, etc.). It's really pretty interesting. Now for the kicker... I just got in on a deal to clean out an old Shell Oil Company warehouse. My four partners and I just acquired about 140 antique gas station pumps, ten old vending machines, boxes of old literature, hundreds of old decals, all types of old signs, and just a big assortment of antique items from the 40's, 50's, and 60's. It looks like I'm going to be getting into some serious eBaying here in the next couple weeks or so. It looks like it's going to take the five of us about 3 weeks just to get all of this stuff out of the warehouse.
I run shell rotella 15W40 in my ford F350 and had it in all my (8) semi's, never had any problem with any of them!
Wow, somebody did some serious driving in 2 years! My uncles 2001 F150 only has 221,000 on it and he drives it 230 miles a day round trip back and forth to work 5 days a week. The 250 in my '72 rolled over 202,000 yesterday. Burns about a quart between oil changes (every 3,500 miles.)
Correction...you only found 14 gas pumps. Don't want to tell everyone ahead of time that you are going to flood the market. Keeps the prices up
Hi Coop, I'm not trying to shoot you down or anything but I am presently talking to several guys right now that are interested in buying all of the oldest pumps at one time. I'm really hoping to get rid of the pumps like that since they are so big and bulky. If none of them come through, then they will become available. The 40's 50's style will probably be somewhere in the $400-$600 price range. The 60's 70's style will be more like $150-$250 range. The biggest interest right now is the older ones of course so the later ones may be available individually real soon. I have around 110 of the later ones. Most all of these pumps are in really good shape too since they been inside this warehouse since removed from the stations.
