Gentlemen,
About once every quarter+ century the major oil companies change their logos. The Chevron Oil Company is in the process of doing this right now starting on the West Coast and moving region by region until all Chevron stations have been refreshed with the company's new image signs. I'm a Chevron dealer in Phoenix, Arizona and three weeks ago I completed this project on my seven-year-old station. The top photo below shows Chevron's new logo mounted on my stations gas canopy. The process involves tearing down the existing canopy, signs, spanners, and pump valets and replacing them with all new stuff. In the process of tearing the old stuff down, most of it is destroyed. But when I went to take some trash out two weeks ago, I looked down into my dumpster and saw the two lighted logos that had just come off the old canopy. They looked pretty undamaged so I fished them out of the trash, took them home, and cleaned them up. A little investigation revealed that they ran off standard 110 V current. So I mounted the two signs on opposite ends of my garage and wired them so that they would light up whenever I turned the garage lights on. In a couple years this old logo that has graced America's roadways for most of the last half-century will have disappeared from the American landscape. But not from my garage! :banana:biggrin:banana I think it looks cool, what do you think? If you like it and you're willing to do a little electrical work, keep an eye on the Chevron stations near you. When they start to tear it apart to equip it with Chevron's new image, ask the owner or contractor if they would give you the canopy logos (they are called "bugs") instead of throwing them out. Every Chevron station normally has two of these, one on each side of the canopy . I wish I had a vintage "Atlantic Richfield", "Phillips 66", or "Standard Oil" canopy logo. Keep your eyes open and you may be able to snag a free, soon-to-be vintage, lighted "Chevron" sign.
Chip
About once every quarter+ century the major oil companies change their logos. The Chevron Oil Company is in the process of doing this right now starting on the West Coast and moving region by region until all Chevron stations have been refreshed with the company's new image signs. I'm a Chevron dealer in Phoenix, Arizona and three weeks ago I completed this project on my seven-year-old station. The top photo below shows Chevron's new logo mounted on my stations gas canopy. The process involves tearing down the existing canopy, signs, spanners, and pump valets and replacing them with all new stuff. In the process of tearing the old stuff down, most of it is destroyed. But when I went to take some trash out two weeks ago, I looked down into my dumpster and saw the two lighted logos that had just come off the old canopy. They looked pretty undamaged so I fished them out of the trash, took them home, and cleaned them up. A little investigation revealed that they ran off standard 110 V current. So I mounted the two signs on opposite ends of my garage and wired them so that they would light up whenever I turned the garage lights on. In a couple years this old logo that has graced America's roadways for most of the last half-century will have disappeared from the American landscape. But not from my garage! :banana:biggrin:banana I think it looks cool, what do you think? If you like it and you're willing to do a little electrical work, keep an eye on the Chevron stations near you. When they start to tear it apart to equip it with Chevron's new image, ask the owner or contractor if they would give you the canopy logos (they are called "bugs") instead of throwing them out. Every Chevron station normally has two of these, one on each side of the canopy . I wish I had a vintage "Atlantic Richfield", "Phillips 66", or "Standard Oil" canopy logo. Keep your eyes open and you may be able to snag a free, soon-to-be vintage, lighted "Chevron" sign.
Chip
