Ringo
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I recently met someone who is an avid collector of “old stuff”, eccentric and quite well off. His collections are separately housed and themed and one theme is a mock 50s style fuel station/workshop filled with signs, cans, tools and all manner of related things.
Could the OP have stumbled on something like this rather than a real fuel station? This would assume that he was wrong about the location in some way.
I drive a lot of miles in Sweden with my job. I see these sort of places all the time here. I pass one really nice example regularily in a small town called Vittsjö. His front garden is a replica "forecourt" with two sparkling white, red and blue Gulf petrol pumps, various signs dotted about the place and even a bright red reconditioned pick-up truck with white walled tyres and chrome hubcaps. It looks great (but I wouldn't want to have it as my front garden). Strangely though, looking at Google Maps now and Streetview, I can find the place but no photos actually show what is usually on display. It's just pictures of it being built/converted from 2014-2019. Yet I have passed it several times since then (at least 4 times a year) and always look forward to seeing it (and of course, it obviously reminds me of this thread).
EDIT: Texaco pumps, not Gulf - sorry.
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