My dad had Texaco, Chevron, and Shell stations when I was growing up in the 70s, and I worked at them pumping gas and changing oil. Two had auto-reset pumps like these, and the Texaco station had the ones where you twist the reset key to zero out the previous sale before turning the pump on. Worked all day during the summer, and afternoons after school. Lots of great memories-- especially the Texaco station along the interstate. Can't imagine a better way to grow up.
Had seen my share of those pumps as a kid in the 80's. My father would take me to a gas station and well, I got to work the pump. And for a pump like that in the video...still hums along.
Those are really cool old gas pumps.. those look like their from the mid to late 70s early 80s... ive only seen a few old Tokheim pumps.. these kind of pumps were made back in the day of a full service station.. you would sit in your car while the attendee would not only fill up your car, but would also air up or chrck your tires, fill or change the motor oil, clean the windshield, vacuum up your car, and etc.. I actually have a vintage 1950 Gilbarco gas pump that runs but dosent pump any gas anymore..
Great vid👍 I’m a retired petroleum technician and this one takes me back. Rare to see mechanical computers working that well. It has been well lived and serviced in house I suspect. Respect!
One of my first jobs at 16 was working at a full-service union 76 station the pumps were exactly like these. That was in 1985 we didn't even have computerized cash registers. We had 4 pumps that were self-serve and 2 pumps that were full service. It was just honor system we had a sign said, "Please pay first before pumping". They would give us $40 and fill it up only 2 times over the 2 years I worked there ever had someone fill up and drive off. We would report their plate number usually the police caught them not too far down the road. We had to learn to count the change back I can still do that to this day. Later I started changing tires and fixing flats at night we had a tire machine in the shop. Day time a mechanic worked on cars in the station. The station was torn down in the late 1990's when big push to clean up tank leaking underground.
Omg! I have not used a pump like this in a very long time. These are incredibly rare. The see something is cool as this in a time where everything has become so computerized.
You hardly see analog gas pumps anymore. Newer gas stations have digital pumps. Gas pumps used to have LED displays, but the newer ones have LCD displays
My grandfather, my father had a business called service station maintenance and sales in Cadillac Michigan those tokiem pumps where a pain in the ass good pumping units but the rest of the pump had more than it's share of problems
Last time I saw one of these, still functional. Was 2000 in Florida. I was 15, and visiting family with my father. My 19 year old cousin filled the tank on his 1982 Lincoln town car. Which had a 302 v8, with pure straight pipes. Gas was 87 cents a gallon. Fuck I'm old.
I have a gmc 2500 that rus off diesel and most diesel pumps around whare I live are like that but all the regular gasoline pumps are the new style pumps
I miss those. You could hear the numbers click and not even have to look to know the dollar rolled over. And nothing on what kind of light was in it? 😜
I won't lie. Things like these make me want to own a gas station. You can bet I won't settle for that new-fangled nonsense as convenient as they are. This is the real deal!
