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I have a good friend by the name of Scott Anderson.  Some may know him as the author of the book, Check The Oil?  Others will recognize his name as one of the owners of Time Passages LTD. in Des Moines, Ia.  We work several shows together each year and have been doing this for over ten years.  He brought a really unique gas pump to the Barrett Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Az. last January.  He said the the pump, a Wayne Model 278, circa 1915,  had been used inside a Chicago Cab garage its entire life.   It was completely original having had several coats of orange paint applied over the years.  He put it out for sale. The unit was reasonably priced but needed just the right person to see the beauty in a machine this old.  We were lucky in meeting a very nice gentleman named Larry who realized the potential of the pump. He asked me to do the restoration and ship it home to him in a Phoenix suburb.  Here are the before and after pictures of the pump.

Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed doing the work?  The pump ships on Monday.