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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Suede and chrome and some great painted areas to accentuate the curves and roof
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1921 road trip to California from Nebraska, photos that Elmer took, and Motorlife blog posted
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Elmer and his pre-1921 model T. Consider the hard life Elmer had lived to reach an age old enough to get gray hair and appear this old. No refrigeration, no toilet paper, no indoor plumbing most likely, probably no electricity, no soft tennis shoes, no air conditioning, no airplanes, telephones, modern mattresses, no radio or tv, and traveling meant top speeds on rough ungraded unpaved roads at about 20 to 30mph. The Ford engine had no oil filter and had to have the oil changed every 400 miles. 
Elmer was a smart guy, he packed some melons to eat along the way to stay fed and hydrated
Roadside camp in Gallup New Mexico
Peach Springs on the Santa Fe trailthese are just a few of the photos from Elmer's trip found on http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/2011/06/elmers-trip-to-california-1921.html
Chevron/Texaco oil company delivery (oldest to relatively newest) and famous customers
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Flat out this has to be the earliest, most basic transport of gas or oil by an oil company.
1910 Mack
Above 1933
C&H Hawaiian Sugar co
Above Barney Oldfield
Amelia Earhart
this is Frank Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in August of 1932, and purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932.Photos from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
1st service station in the world 1907, and the 1st drive in service station 1913
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Above the first service station in the world 1907. John McLean of Standard Oil of California in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of oil products.
Above, The first service station in the world that was designed to be a drive in station open its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil.
This is what the typical curbside gas station was like
Images from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
Found on http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/
The elusive Doodlebug fuel tanker, seeing one photographed in the wild is so rare that this is the first sighting of one in 2 years. (seriously, this is only the 2nd photo I've ever come across)
in 1935 Texaco designed this tanker and had Diamond T truck company make them to provide greater economy, ease of operation, increased visibility, and greater capacity.
