New artist’s renderings were released Monday of the giant gas pump that will be built outside the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum on Route 66 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
Initial reports more than two weeks ago said the pump was going to be 20 feet tall. It turns out the museum’s organizers underestimated the pump’s size — it actually will be 66 feet tall.
That’s more than three times taller. The museum’s executive director, Lina Holmes, in a email conceded it was “an error on our part.” But if reality is bigger than what you first said, it’s better.
The giant gas pump is designed so that visitors can climb to the stop and gaze out over the Oklahoma countryside. According to a news release:
Little Mountain Productions, which remodeled the concession area for Tulsa’s BOK Center in 2014, created the renderings and has been hired to develop the museum, which will be housed in the former armory along Route 66 in Sapulpa.
“Little Mountain Productions has come up with something that will attract attention not only to our new museum, but to anyone traveling the Mother Road. I can hardly wait to see it,” Holmes said.
The museum recently held a kick-off event in Sapulpa that raised enough money to match a U.S. Department of Interior grant that will fund renovations of the existing armory property at 13 Sahoma Lake Road, including air conditioning, heating and plumbing.
The Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum seeks to open in January.
(Images courtesy of the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum)