pmichelsen
Well-known member
Well today was full of random events, all of which seemed to take longer than they were supposed to, but they all happened for a reason. After being delayed by almost everything today my lady and I were on our way to grab some lunch. In keeping with the delays, we were in some hellish traffic, but I saw the far left hand lane was picking up so I moved over and we were finally making some headway.
As I was driving I noticed a house on the right hand side and in front of this house there was a pinball machine. The garage was open so I checked to see if it was possibly a garage sale. It was not, but my lady said we should turn around and go check it out anyways. Well I cut across three lanes of traffic and maneuvered back to the house, fortunately there was a spot right in front (for those of you familiar with SF, this was on 19th avenue). We got out and went up to the machine, and to my surprise there it sat with a sign "free" on it. I couldn't believe it, but now, how were we going to get it home.
We stood there talking about options, we we decided that my lady would drive to my shop and get my tools so that we could take the legs off and get it into the truck. Right when she was getting ready to leave the door opened and the owner walked out. He said he has had it for 20+ years, it works, though the left flipper sometimes doesn't work, and he just wanted it gone. Said he thought about trying to sell it but didn't want to hassle with that. I told him I would get it out of there and asked him he had a wrench so that I could take the legs off. His response was I moved it just like this 20 years ago and it was fine, and he said he would help me load it. I figured, my shop is only one or two miles away, I will strap it down and drive slow.
Well I made it home and got a friend to help me unload it. I haven't had a chance to go through it but it looks decent, the back glass is flaking slightly but the play-field has very little wear. All in all I am happy and can't wait until I get some time to actually check it out. It even came with all the manuals and the product registration cards. And of course pics or it didn't happen...
As it sat in front of the house:
Safe and sound at my shop:
As I was driving I noticed a house on the right hand side and in front of this house there was a pinball machine. The garage was open so I checked to see if it was possibly a garage sale. It was not, but my lady said we should turn around and go check it out anyways. Well I cut across three lanes of traffic and maneuvered back to the house, fortunately there was a spot right in front (for those of you familiar with SF, this was on 19th avenue). We got out and went up to the machine, and to my surprise there it sat with a sign "free" on it. I couldn't believe it, but now, how were we going to get it home.
We stood there talking about options, we we decided that my lady would drive to my shop and get my tools so that we could take the legs off and get it into the truck. Right when she was getting ready to leave the door opened and the owner walked out. He said he has had it for 20+ years, it works, though the left flipper sometimes doesn't work, and he just wanted it gone. Said he thought about trying to sell it but didn't want to hassle with that. I told him I would get it out of there and asked him he had a wrench so that I could take the legs off. His response was I moved it just like this 20 years ago and it was fine, and he said he would help me load it. I figured, my shop is only one or two miles away, I will strap it down and drive slow.
Well I made it home and got a friend to help me unload it. I haven't had a chance to go through it but it looks decent, the back glass is flaking slightly but the play-field has very little wear. All in all I am happy and can't wait until I get some time to actually check it out. It even came with all the manuals and the product registration cards. And of course pics or it didn't happen...
As it sat in front of the house:
Safe and sound at my shop:
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