Alright, Mongo . . . Now you've got me hooked.
Trying to figure out how this truck was originally used? 4 tanks would seem to correspond to 3 grades of gasoline, plus diesel. But then, when this truck was made, did we even HAVE unleaded gasoline? Much less, three grades? Or maybe we had three grades of leaded gas, and the lead doesn't figure into it . . .
And, it just SEEMS too small to service a gas station - 150 gallons ain't much to a filling station. Or maybe they just filled all the tanks with one grade? But then, why four separate tanks?
So then I think, fleet fuel truck? The hose reel makes sense for that, just stick a nozzle on the end. BUT, it still has the larger hook-ups on the rear . . . why? And would a fleet vehicle need 4 different types of fuel?
It's not marked as an airport truck, though I could see that maybe. . . Or home heating fuel? Hose reel isn't long enough . . .
OK, then we move to: What was stored on the two shelves? The clasps seem to indicate something that was pulled on and off regularly. But it doesn't seem like that's where the larger hoses would have mounted . . . Boxes of motor oil? I'm grasping at straws here . . .
Somebody, PLEASE school me . . . otherwise, I'll have to track down the original owner in Colorado!
-Michael
