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« on: July 28, 2004, 07:21:40 pm » |
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Just thought I'd have a little show-n-tell
This 1960's Vendo VF90 started out it's life a Coke machine, with Coka Cola in Detroit, MI. at one time they shared a large warehouse back to back in the 60's with Faygo (a local hometown bottler here in the Detroit area) come the 1970's Coke was to relocate to a larger building, Faygo bought the other half of the warehouse & moved in , also purchasing several of these machines VF63's & VF90's ( it was cheaper for Coke to sell them as opposed to moving them), so come the year 2001, when lil' ol me stops by to do some service work on there phone system, ( my real job is working for SBC/ASI doing DSL internet access, naturally with my hobby of soda machines, it didn't take long for the subject of the history of soda machinesto come up, So you know I had to ask... (at the time jokingly) about if they had any old machines they'd like to sell me, so upstairs we went to the service dept. deep into the back of the parts room, peeking out from a pile of compressor decks, two VF63's & this VF90
( although in multiple locations, ie: a door here , a cabinet there, compressor deck over here. etc.) the one smaller VF63 was complete & filthy, but it fired right up!
The other VF63 had its door removed & the harnesses cut, but all component where located, Now the VF90 picture below was also in a disassemble state , & the lightup was cracked into pieces, & the bottle door glass smashed out, so a deal was struck, ( I had to sign an agreement to purchase them as "Scrap") & home they came ( No the wife wasn't mad, as she said they reminded her of the machine at her Grandfathers gas station when she was little)
The one original VF63 sits in my garage now, serving up cold ones, the other is just back form the metal strippers, & now, as you see, The VF90 is back to it glory, with a new set of (expensive!  ) vinyl decals & a fully reproduced lightup logo )
I've converted the sign's lamp and the bottle door's lamp to an instant start circut instead of the old pre-heat style F2 starter circut, very nice!
now to get the other VF63 back together & painted...
remember, you can never have to many projects, or Red Pop on hand!  :'>
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001...  Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan. |
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johnieG
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2004, 07:27:53 pm » |
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a close up of the lightup's detail...check out the lemon & orange's overlay onto the bottle....it wasn't cheap, but it was worth the effort! ( ignore the "speckles" in the picture, it's a trick of the digital camera. when I transfered the file onto my hardrive)
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan. |
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johnieG
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2004, 07:34:16 pm » |
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And one of the side logo...
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2004, 07:35:43 pm » |
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And one of the side logo...
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan. |
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johnieG
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2004, 10:05:59 pm » |
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And here's it's little brother, the VF56.
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« Last Edit: June 10, 2016, 04:42:38 pm by johnieG »
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan. |
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glassbottlesrule
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2004, 11:18:53 pm » |
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those pics are awesome. I've been looking for some faygo pics because I'm considering painting my slider like that to be different and do the home-town thing. Those machines are super sharp.
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