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Wally Kill - Owner - Classic Service Station and Collection
Clip: 5/19/2022 | 5mVideo has Closed Captions
A Classic Service Station built to display a collection of automotive memorabilia.
Wally Kill built a special classic service station to display over 30 years of collections including classic gas pumps, cars and memorabilia.
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WHEELS
Wally Kill - Owner - Classic Service Station and Collection
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Wally Kill built a special classic service station to display over 30 years of collections including classic gas pumps, cars and memorabilia.
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And I'm a collector.
Started out as just a fun project, but it kind of ballooned into more than that after people started stopping in to look at it, I guess.
I didn't build it for a museum or anything.
It was just for my own enjoyment.
I had all these signs and stuff, scattered around and stacked in the corner in my pole shed and I thought, wow, I'm gonna put this model gas station up so I can display 'em nicely in there.
And so I that's what I did.
On gas and oil products, I started about 30 years ago.
A friend of mine had two gas pumps that were given to him and he offered if I would restore both of 'em and he'd keep one and let me have the other one so that kind of started the gas pump collecting.
And then after that, I looked around and hey, this one's way different than the one I've got now.
And one led to probably 60 or 70 that I have now.
I purchased this old wrecker truck that originally came from Benson, Minnesota.
And I decided that was a 1955 Chevy wrecker.
So I just started searching for a '55 Chevy to hook up behind it.
And I now have it situated so it looks like the wrecker's towing the car in.
The other old pickup by the tree actually is a '48 Chevy that I had acquired when my brother passed away, something he'd collected.
Well, I lean towards the Chevys, I guess.
I really am not into the Ford restoration business.
I love Chevys, I guess.
That's kinda ironic because majority of my tractor collection is Ford tractors and I've got probably 25 different Ford models of Ford tractors that I've collected over the years.
But no cars.
I've had quite a few car clubs make this their cruising destination.
They just stop in, you know, for an hour or so and check things out on like a Sunday afternoon or something.
And that's kind of fun.
You get to see a lot of old cars.
There's a few younger kids that come and they are just in awe of how these gas pumps all look different.
And each one is so unique and different.
And I like to restore 'em and keep it alive for history.
It must be a passion.
You just get started on it and one thing leads to another, I guess.
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