restoring 60s Texaco sign pole

[shocwav3]

Bad ***!!!

 

[jdoe213]

Nice pics! Where did you get the 3M cabinets?

 

[don long]

Bad ***!!!

Thanks shocwav3

That was a fun project that took me a couple weeks to finish

Nice pics! Where did you get the 3M cabinets?

Thanks jdoe213

When I owned bodyshops in the 80s & 90s I got them as promo's from my paint supplier. I had 2 for each bodyman and one for each preper and I filled my garage with them (They were free) I was a valued customer of 3M

 

[autoclassicnut]

Very cool!

 

[customtronic]

Well this project is in the book
Another addition to the party garage
Thank you all for the encouraging spirit and friendship shone
I hope that you have enjoyed following along as the photos progressed

And here are the final shots of the Texaco pole and sign standing in its place in the garage.

WOW doesn't even come close to how cool this is!!! Nicely done sir!

 

[driftpin]

What a place to warehouse your collection! Do you ever allow school groups to come in? Perhaps from a vocational school, where they are studying auto mechanics, body work, etc?

Years-ago, I was at the Ford Museum in Detroit (Dearborn), and they had a drive-in complete with the pole sign, heavily-laden with neon, and a row of vintage cars in-front of the screen, pedestals for the speakers next to the cars, just a great depiction of a style of entertainment not much in-demand now.

Interesting thing was, it was from a Kalamazoo MI drive-in theater which had stopped operation, and they got the neon sign. It was a drive-in I had attended as an adolescent. The Douglas drive-in theater. http://drive-ins.com/pictures/mitdoug007/douglas-drive-in-theater-kalamazoo-mi