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01/08/2026 11:09 pm
I have this Gearbox replica Tokheim gasoline pump, which is also a coin bank. I think the scale of the 1950 pump is somewhere around 1/10 scale or so.
02/08/2026 5:32 am
COOL! I have a John Deere pump that scale then several in 1/24th. They make a great display feature.
GDH and michaeldetorrice reacted
02/08/2026 2:52 pm
I thought that was “the star, the big bright Texaco star”. Wasn’t that how the ad went ?
Topic starter
03/08/2026 12:32 am
Texaco (Texas Oil Corporation) also sponsored racing airplanes in the 1930's with their aviation gasoline.
03/08/2026 5:21 am
Three awesome pics Mike! Love the night shot with the plane's lights on, the day shot and the dark dramatic shot are equally fantastic!
Topic starter
03/08/2026 7:45 am
Thanks ! One of Northrop's (much) later aviation projects was (is) the B-2 Stealth bomber.
Topic starter
03/08/2026 1:14 pm
Northrop-Grumman also makes the USA's forthcoming strategic stealth bomber, the brand-new B-21 Raider. I wonder if it also sips Texaco aviation gas, lol !
Texaco certainly got good publicity from it's products from the 1930's through the 1970's for both automobiles and airplanes. "You can trust your car to the man who wears the Texaco star !"
03/08/2026 4:21 pm
03/08/2026 6:52 pm
@michaeldetorrice I assume that is a model airplane. What is its scale and model manufacturer? As usual, nice pictures.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
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03/08/2026 9:16 pm
Thanks ! It is a Williams Bros 1/72 styrene plastic model kit of the Northrop Gamma airplane using Texaco aviation gasoline. It was digitally photographed with a Pentax K-30 digital camera and combined in the computer with background images photographed with the same camera.