Yep, it's a 1954 vintage "Genco's Moving Target Rifle Gallery". I picked it up off of CraigsList for $100 from a guy in St. Paul, MN. It had been sitting in his garage for 10 years. He said that he had bought it, but then discovered it was too big to get into his basement. Of course, it "used to work". It's complete, and even had the schematics and original paperwork with it.
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/grifran.htm
He said that he had gotten easily 30 replies to his CL ad. Mostly, he said, suburban soccer moms who thought that it would be a fully working game that they could put right into their basement. When he called me, I evidently said the magic words: "It looks like it would be a neat project." He gave me his address, and I was at his door within an hour.
Even not working, this thing is just really, really cool. I've restored a couple EM pinball games in the past, but this will be my first EM gun game. My plan is to fix it up and give it to my father as a 60th birthday gift.
The cabinet's bottom panel will need to be replaced. That looks to be a PITA woodworking project as it interlocks into the sides of the cabinet.
As I get started on this, any suggestions, recommendations, pointers to resources, etc would be appreciated!
Alan
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/grifran.htm
He said that he had gotten easily 30 replies to his CL ad. Mostly, he said, suburban soccer moms who thought that it would be a fully working game that they could put right into their basement. When he called me, I evidently said the magic words: "It looks like it would be a neat project." He gave me his address, and I was at his door within an hour.
Even not working, this thing is just really, really cool. I've restored a couple EM pinball games in the past, but this will be my first EM gun game. My plan is to fix it up and give it to my father as a 60th birthday gift.
The cabinet's bottom panel will need to be replaced. That looks to be a PITA woodworking project as it interlocks into the sides of the cabinet.
As I get started on this, any suggestions, recommendations, pointers to resources, etc would be appreciated!
Alan


