OXFORD – For now, it’s a mix of things like antique oil filters, vintage giveaway matches and a restored 1939 gas pump, circa 41 cents a gallon, stashed in and around Jim Lamb’s garage.

Someday, maybe, it’ll be an authentic-down-to-the-cash-register recreation of his grandfather’s old West Paris Shell station.

For now, he and wife, Chris, have fun assembling parts.

“Once you turn into a nut on this kind of stuff you can’t stop,” he said grinning, giving a quick tour of the red-and-yellow Shell-brand discoveries they’ve tracked down on eBay, Uncle Henry’s and in farmers’ fields.

A standing metal case for wiper blade arms. A slightly rusted trash bucket. An old oil can rack. A “mechanic on duty” sign.

An artfully rehabbed 1926 Tokheim hand-crank gas pump.

Their collection spans decades.

Lamb held up a 1920s and ’30s era cap worn by gas attendants and said, “This is real old. My wife almost killed me when I bought it.” He doesn’t have the uniform to match. Yet.

The Shell garage in the making, just outside their Route 26 business, Parts & Pieces, has been mistaken for an antique shop and a real gas station. (People have asked to use its bathroom.)

He keeps plenty of odds and ends outside during the day and brings anything that could be carted off inside at night.

An old air meter from the ’20s still works. “It’s bolted to the building real hard. Somebody would love to own it,” Lamb said.

About eight years ago, the man who bought his grandfather’s old truck stopped by and gave Lamb the key chain from the key ring: a yellow plastic Shell fob with Conrad W. Lamb printed on the back. His grandfather had the station in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. The younger Lamb worked there some as a kid.

“He took it off the ignition and brought it to me. I guess you’d say that really put a fire under me,” Lamb said.

He has tucked away in his office two vintage water bath Coca Cola machines for the museum-to-be, one from 1942 that started up the minute he switched it on and a 1943 that needs work.

“That one’s got a couple issues,” Lamb said. “Like smoke came out of it when I plugged it in.”