I have a friend that tears down buildings for a living and he called with news of a pin inside one of his jobs. I went to check it out and found a Gottlieb Rollercoaster EM setting on the second story of a three story building in total darkness. The roof had been leaking for 25 years or so and the ceiling had fallen on it and was stacked with debris and leavings of the local homeless. The backglass was nice but with the amount of work needed to get to it I left without it. A couple of week later I bought a Rollercoaster that was complete with a badly peeling backglass. I called my friend and told him i needed in there again and he had lost the job because the building had been sold. That machine haunted me and I figured it was lost. Flash forward two months and my friend called with news that the new owner had contracted him to tear down that building. I jumped and went to save the back glass. With a five gallon bucket of tools i began working my way through a building that had giant holes in the floor in order to retrieve what I could. The body of the machine was soft and falling apart because it had no legs and was setting on the floor. Luckily the backdoor was unlocked and I got the glass out without any issues. I found the playfield and head were both in decent condition so I worked them out also. After an hour of carrying stuff out I got it into the truck and brought it home. Here are some pics.
