V23 on American Rustoration

[ss540]

One of the two dufords taking a V23 apart on American Rustoration said that the honeycomb spins and the top stays stationary.  They must have a very rare model! 

The unit they were working on was so trashed that I wonder if they really restored it or just pulled a decent one out of their scrap heap and painted it.

[90grad]

I noticed when it was completed, there was no trim around the bottle opener and coin return.  I thought 23's had this trim.  Also, Rick Dale said it was a "Vendorlator" 23 at one point.

[Eric]

It reminded me of 2 I was delivering to a friend a few years back.. I was on my way to his shop (a 3 hour drive) and ran into a snow/ice storm.. I lost control of my truck (black ice on a exit ramp, when turning around to go home) and one of the 23s went air born cleared my truck and exploded
onto the highway... I scraped it up, put it back into the truck continued onto his shop.. he just kinda laughed took the pair and by the summer
he had restored both of them.... beautiful job... he had to place a support bar on the inside of the flying one to straighten the body... but they both turned out like day one from the factory... sold both...

I think they did a pretty good job on the one last night though it still had some waves on either side of the door but wow.. I think I would have
just used a doner also.. would have saved time and $$$.
I've been watching more lately... enjoy seeing what comes in... but wow the prices, quotes and the quality are just all over the map... sad.

[TomFromJersey]

Spending $4800 on a restoration of a 23 is quite ridiculous!
  TFJ

[Kilroy]

But Tom you're assuming it is a "actual" customer.  I don't believe anything  that is shown or said on that show.

[collecture]

I noticed when it was completed, there was no trim around the bottle opener and coin return.  I thought 23's had this trim.  Also, Rick Dale said it was a "Vendorlator" 23 at one point.

The V-23 Deluxe cabinet had trim, but the V-23 Standard cabinet did not.

The VMC-23 had nothing!

[MoonDawg]

Spending $4800 on a restoration of a 23 is quite ridiculous!
  TFJ

      But when restored it's worth $6-7,000 

[Slapshot42]

But Tom you're assuming it is a "actual" customer.  I don't believe anything  that is shown or said on that show.

When I visited the shop all the items that were customer pieces were all for sale in the show room.  Interesting....

[briandr1]

Was the ten thousand dollar coffee machine on the show room floor too?

[Slapshot42]

It was in the back room.  I had asked to see it.  It was okay looking, I don't know a lot about them it did look like it was something you could just drop a coin in and get a fresh cup of joe.