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David K
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The pleasure was mine! Call me ahaed of your arrival so I can be there for you!
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DENNIS
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Wow....This is really getting gooey.
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Barry A.
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I believe the original "pump" at BOLA run by Antero Diaz right (east) of the "runway" in front of the Diaz Motel was that type------------but my
memory is not the best. That was back when the airplanes tied down right in front of the Motel-------in the "fun" days of BOLA. 
Barry
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BajaVida
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the Pemex in Catavina
in 1978 had a modern pump, the metal sides were removed showing a fan belt attached to a pulley with a crank on it, the attendant turned the crank to
pump fuel
later on that same trip I remember going to the Pemex in BOLA and the attendant (Patricio?) playing a guitar for us--the back was made out of metal
from an airplane gas tank
on the way back, the bridges to the north and south of the BOLA turn off had washed out, no Pemex trucks could get through so there was no gas in
BOLA, we filled up with about 5 gallons of av gas at Santa Inez
the good old days
No se apure y dure.
Don\'t hurry and you\'ll last longer.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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If that picture was 1967 or close to it I probably operated that very pump for Mama when I lived with her.
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pappy
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hey warrior- i remember that pump as well.used it on a few occassions. they still have them in parts of australia ...
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David K
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Good story Vida!!
My avgas story dates to about 1978 when San Felipe ran out of gas Memorial Day Weekend, Monday (O.T.L. championship games, the town was packed)...
What to do...
We were in my 4WD Subaru and were camping on Shell Island... Got to town, needed gas... both stations (then) were out...
Thought we would make Crucero Trinidad (30 miles north), but ran out near El Paraiso! A southbound motorist gave us a some to get back to San Felipe.
Long lines at both stations waiting for the fuel truck from Mexicali to arrive...
THEN, I rememberd what my dad did in 1966 on our trip to Cabo by Jeep... Went to the San Lucas airstrip, south of Santa Rosalia and got avgas...
worked great... better than Pemex... the Wagoneer wanted to fly!:
I drove the Subaru to the old dirt runway in San Felipe and found out were the avgas was stored... near Augie's Rviera Hotel... Went to the fuel
storage lot where an attendent said he would sell us some avgas. I asked if any other motorist were there to get fuel. He said one other, who was
wearing a SCORE hat, like mine!
We took off for Calexico,... the station at the Valle Trinidad jcn. was also out... and we passed the fuel trucks heading south, as we smiled heading
north! My Subaru was flying on that good aviation fuel!
The border inspectors couldn't figure out were the crowds of Americans heading home were, they had been expecting... I told them in a couple hours,
you will be quite busy!
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Tomas Tierra
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Do you remember when there was no crank in Baja???
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Skip_Mac
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Surfer Jim... YEAH... what an experience it was in El Rosario 1974 to pump the gas up to the glass jug with liters markings, then let it gravity drain
down to the tank. It was decades before I saw another, and that was in someone's collection in a warehouse. Excellent, off-grid, simple and nearly
foolproof "technology". We can use a bit of that inspiration these days.
Of course, by the time I got back there in the 1990's things were totally different. No more two hole outhouses with one door. Cozy.
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surfer jim
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the guys who used to crank the handles lost their jobs to the "new" attendents who could "rig" the pumps to put 6 gallons in a five gallon
container
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juanroberts
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Bradley's Rancho Grande
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The station 1/2 mile north of Colonet was Bradley's Rancho Grande (it was a Chevron station from the pre-Pemex days)... I think I last got gas there
was in 1976... driving out from the coast at San Antonio del Mar. |
Pre-Pemex, pre March 18th 1938?
I pulled an old family 8mm film and found the pic below. From the other footage I could tell it was South of Santo Tomas and North of San Pedro
Martir, along the Coast 'highway', so this post was great because it confims the location.
Thanks.
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DENNIS
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PALOMAR gas station, Santo Tomas, had them in the early sixties.
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monoloco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
the guys who used to crank the handles lost their jobs to the "new" attendents who could "rig" the pumps to put 6 gallons in a five gallon
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I went to the local
Pemex a couple of days ago and they managed to put 24.3 liters in my 19 liter container. I said to the attendant," what a miracle, 24 liters in a 19
liter container". He just shrugged and said the owner was "muy bandito".
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wessongroup
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Good one, when I went over to the Pemex in Primo Tapia, I got out of my car, the attendant ... started telling me he would do it... I told him with my
hands raised above my head, I was just making it easy for his boss to rob me... he laughed so hard I thought he was going to choke to death... I
tipped him three dollars and to this day... he waves at me when I drive by.. with a big smile on his face.. made him happy and me too.... the gas
worked just fine in my old ford... not a miss...
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ncampion
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Here's one in Calif. It's near Bass Lake in the Sequoia National Forest. We filled up there on an off-road ride just last fall.
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juanroberts
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Very cool. Did they use nail polish on the gallon marks? That was how they did it 25 years ago at Three Poles near the millitary checkpoint heading
to San Felipe. I remember that place had about 100 hanging lamps, and when they lit them all, it made quite a night sight for the drivers going by.
How about the semi truck on the Pacific side that use to get decked out with lights over the Holidays, even seemed to have moving wheels?
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MrBillM
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Colonet
I last bought gas from that Hand-Cranked pump in Colonet in 1982.
The Glass-Topped pumps were in use after that at El Chinero on Highway 5, but they might have been converted to Electric by then. Or not. After they
went to more modern pumps, the Glass-Topped were off to one side as a momento. Probably sold to someone for a lot of money.
When I was a kid in the early 50s in South L.A., the Mobil station at the corner of 112th and Main still had the Glass-Topped pumps as did the
Richfield station across the street, but an electric-pump was used to replace the hand-crank.
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Bajahowodd
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Maybe some enterprising person can locate a couple of those pumps and apply for the PEMEX franchise in Catavina! I always figured that they closed the
station down because no one could make a profit having to burn diesel just to power the pumps.
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Keri
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Dennis that's the one Mike and I remember. Palomar. We called it chocolate gas. That's what it looked like , we were skeptical about putting it in our
tank but had no choice. It worked though so we were happy.k
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MrBillM
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Enterprising Pumping
Having seen what a restored 50s-60s Gas Pump went for on "Pawn Stars", any enterprising person who could come up with the Glass-Tops would be better
served selling them.
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