I actually started this "thing" almost 2 years ago. I bought an old 1945 gas pump (The kind with a glass "fish bowl" on top, with a logo on it) for $50
As you can tell it was worth every penny...
At the time I just liked the streamlined look of the thing, and wasn't sure what I was going to do to it. I finally decided I was going to build a media center out of the old pump. But I decided that I was going to to turn the pump into a retro 50's sci-fi computer. When done I hope it will look like a super computer form black and white sci-fi movies. Hence the reason I will be calling it the fallout server, it will look like a computer out of the video game.
I started to take things apart: