Vintage gas pumps are not scrap materials, rather these are valuable collection items and you would love to have it in your collection if you would know its true worth, antique gas pumps are worth a lot of money, depending on a few different factors which decide its worth when you start with buying an old gas pump work on fixing it and then sell it to a collector it could simply become your new hobby, restoring antique gas pumps would require delicate as well as labor intensive work but once you get it up and running you will realize that it is worth more than you think and it has more buyers than you can imagine, the process of restoring old visible, electric and manual gas pumps is rigorous but a lot of work is repetitive and not difficult at all.
If you look at the gas pumps today you don’t see it as something out of the ordinary but back in the day having a well-designed gas pump was a marketing tool itself for companies, names like Skychief and Texaco are known among the gas pump enthusiasts and if you are one search for antique gas pumps you should first look for such brands and then settle on other options if these aren’t available and the color you should be after is red because this was significant when old gas pumps were common.
When you have finally found vintage gas pumps, you should spend no more than 60 to 80 hours repairing it, basic tools and work experience is required to repair it and if it comes back into running condition then it will be worth a lot, you can auction it or sell online to make top dollar and this will surely become your new hobby then.