[Richard Kimball]

This is from before my time, although I've seen a couple of working models. There was a hand pump, and you pumped the gas into the clear container at the top. You calculated how much gas you were purchasing by looking at the gallon markers on the side, then it used a gravity feed to drain into the car's gas tank.

I know a lot of older Freepers know how it works, but some of the younger ones may never have seen one, except one that's been repurposed as a gum-ball machine or aquarium.

[chickadee]

That pump is just gorgeous. I’ve never seen one before. Was it a regional thing (I’ve never heard of Mohawk gas)?

[Eaker]

When I worked at a station many years ago an old OLD man would come in and request four gallons of gas, not dollars worth.

That was a hold out from back in the days of those pumps.