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“Outsiders” gas station renovation underway

TULSA — At the beginning of the film “The Outsiders,” the gang briefly visits a gas station where the character Sodapop and his buddy Steve work.

The scene was shot in Sperry, just north of Tulsa.

The D-X station's only onscreen briefly, but it's become the focus of a restoration project tied to the Outsiders House Museum.

[CLICK HERE to hear KRMG's In-Depth Report on the restoration project, or use the audio player below]

Danny Boy O'Connor, the man behind the museum (which opens August 9th), convinced Sperry resident Gary Coulson to take on the gas station restoration.

Coulson calls O'Connor “very motivational,” and their plan is rather ambitious.

It includes obtaining DX signs, a phone booth, a windshield wiper box, and even an old car which was used in the film.

He's put up a Go Fund Me page to help pay for the project.

And that's not all.

Coulson's also part of "Upward Sperry," a non-profit which has recently erected a new gazebo and has other projects designed to spruce up the small town.

“We plan on opening a little shop with t-shirts, mugs, you know, all the memorabilia from DX,” he told KRMG Wednesday.

And the station “will look just like it was in the movie, and all the 'outsiderheads' or whatever you want to call'em will be able to come here and take their selfies.”

He says people are already visiting the station to take those selfies anyway, so he believes it'll get some traffic.

The plan is to have the building restored and ready to unveil by October.

Here's a clip from the film featuring the DX station:

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