In 1963, a Sinclair gas station opened on old Route 66 on 200 E. Baltimore in Wilmington, Ill., featuring the brand’s green brontosaurus that overlooked the station and highway.
Gary Geiss bought the station in 2001 and sought to put a dinosaur back on the building (there’s no word on what happened to the old one). The Kankakee Daily Journal reports that he negotiated with an eBay seller and bought an 80-pound, fiberglass Sinclair dinosaur that’s at least 45 years old and originally was displayed at a station in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Sinclair dino can be seen here.
Wilmington is now the home of two fiberglass giants — Geiss’ Sinclair dino and the Launching Pad Drive-In‘s giant astronaut.
do know why it had the dinosur?