A trip for a free machine and questions for vintage soda machine folks

[Angry_Radish]

If you look closely near the top you can make out 10c at the top, the mech is a nickel mech. It's funny seeing such a small "bucket" for the money taken in after being used to dumping buckets from pool tables, etc.. with like $400 in quarters in them

I was able to get home last night and rechecked the price on that vending machine. 15 cents a can! I bet yours was set up for a nickel a Pepsi.

 

[kjeffery]

Back when I was younger me and my buddy was in the woods exploring and came across a coke machine, looked to be from the 70's and we busted it open there was 60$ worth of nickels scattered inside of it

 

[cadillacman]

Yeah, I'm still fielding some emails from collectors on a couple soda machine forums I posted to in order to figure out just what I can get for this thing, crazy!

It DOES look sexy restored that's for sure!

man, now youre hitting below the belt lol DAMN that thing is frickin cool!!

 

[Angry_Radish]

Just got the door open!
Also wired in a new power cord (the old had been crushed/shorted below the unit when it was moved to the carriage house I guess). Runs and cools QUIET! I could see some modern splices where the power cord went so it had to have been worked on at some point before 1990 (when it was moved from the boathouse to the carriage house). Hell the one surviving lightbulb by on of the upper lenses even works (goes out while vending too!)

 

[cadillacman]

WOW!!!!!! still freaking works!! i cant believe how nuce that thing is inside!!

dude, you just stumbled onto a frickin pot of gold man.. dammit i want that thing..

 

[ifkz]

Wow, I suggest to just hang onto it and restore it. As you can tell, a lot of people like them and it will be a hit in your gameroom. My 2 cents.

 

[cadillacman]

i was just gonna say resto that thing, that was my plan untill my hopes were smashed to bits

 

[Angry_Radish]

Heh, no restoring for me, I know for a fact that my bodywork/painting skills are no where near good enough to do this thing justice. That, and the fact I have no room in my game-room for it

 

[cadillacman]

Heh, no restoring for me, I know for a fact that my bodywork/painting skills are no where near good enough to do this thing justice. That, and the fact I have no room in my game-room for it

all the more reason to donate it to the charity of cadillacman lol

looking for any arcade related trades?

 

[Angry_Radish]

Fraid not, the wife's car needs work and now mine does too, dropped $140 on a fuel pump trying to fix it, turned out I didn't need, GRRR.....

 

[avidgeek]

WOW!!!!!! still freaking works!! i cant believe how nuce that thing is inside!!

I agree...it's super nuce!

 

[ifkz]

Let me say, if this were available locally in this shape (working!), I would totally take it on, get it painted at an auto body shop. Very cool, I really want one now; dang it! I don't need another expensive hobby with hard to find parts ;-) Thanks for the post, you might have started a hunt with me....

 

[back2the80s]

Heh, no restoring for me, I know for a fact that my bodywork/painting skills are no where near good enough to do this thing justice. That, and the fact I have no room in my game-room for it

This sounds like a job for American restorations love watching that show and I think Rick would turn that pepsi machine into a beauty

 

[cadillacman]

Fraid not, the wife's car needs work and now mine does too, dropped $140 on a fuel pump trying to fix it, turned out I didn't need, GRRR.....

not even for a tron? bummer..

 

[cadillacman]

I agree...it's super nuce!

from wikipedia: "in nuce" definition: in a nut

so apparently, its super nut

 

[Angry_Radish]

A Tron pin?

Well I suppose I could do that

not even for a tron? bummer..

 

[cadillacman]

frickin jackass lol.. if you decide to make a fellow collector happy, you know how to gt in touch with me..

 

[EVB]

Beautiful!
You got that for free you should keep it, use it, and eventually get it cosmetically restored. You will probably never find another one.
Selling it to get a car fixed would be a serious sin that you will eventually regret imo.

 

[marxtoys]

Beautiful!
You got that for free you should keep it, use it, and eventually get it cosmetically restored. You will probably never find another one.
Selling it to get a car fixed would be a serious sin that you will eventually regret imo.

Agreed, except for the probably part.

Sell the car and put the $$$ toward fixing the Pepsi machine.

 

[Angry_Radish]

I never had any intention of restoring it, soda machines just don't do it for me unfortunately. All I see when I look at it (other than the fact that it looks neat) is that I could store another pin in the footprint it is taking up

I brought it home knowing it was worth something to those who DO value this type of thing, so if I can sell it to someone who appreciates it and I pocket some cash out of the deal I'm a happy camper.