Every restoration has a story, but some are special. We love doing quailty restorations on items that have a story, i.e. "it was at my Dad's service station when I was a kid", " it's been in our family for years" etc. Here's a couple from the last few years.
Happy Motoring
This one is special to me because it was an old friend that trusted us to do the restoration right. The pedal car is a 1950's Murray Comet. My friend still had picture of him about 5 yrs old with the Comet and his Dad on their West Texas farm around 1960. He somehow hung on to it for 50 + years and asked us to restore it for his granddaughters Christmas. Fun to do.
Big Hoss
This is a rather common ice machine from the late 30's and 40's. It's a Westinghouse Standard. We have probable restored several dozens of them over the years. This one however has a bit of history.
The client was a life long resident of O'Donnell Tx. where he obtained the unit. This unit was the original machine in the 40's and 50's in the general grocery store in little O'Donnell, Texas that was owned and operated by O'Donnell's favorite son Dan Blockers parents. (for you young whippersnappers that was Hoss on Bonanza). Can imagine little Dan ( well probably not that little) getting an ice cold Coke out of it as a kid. Couple other Hoss facts - Koren War vet, played football at HSU and Sul Ross, earned a Masters Degree and taught high school English in Sonora. Forgot to get a "before" pic but it was rough. .
Toy Time
Don't do alot of "smalls" but fun to do. Both of these items were owned by the clients sons as children and wanted them restored to give them to their children.
70/80's Tonka Dump Truck Turbo Diesil XMB-975
