Dr. Pepper Jacob's 26

[Dave]

I bought this Jacob's 26 in Chicago about 6 years ago. I  loved the old school water fountain and the Dr. Pepper paint scheme.
I found a receipt inside the machine dated 1961 for a case of Dr. Pepper.
As most of us know, Jacob's were non- embossed and made for Coke only.
I like the fact that after finding the receipt from 1961, it is apparent that this machine vended Dr. Pepper most of it's life.
I just pulled it out of the mothballs last week. I have almost 30 hours in resurfacing the paint and detailing it. I had 4.5 hours in hand polishing the water fountain. Everything works great.

[scalebowler]

That's awesome! It looks like a brand new machine

[Pat Pixley]

Very nice

[mack65az]

Awesome!!!!!

[Funtronics]

Amazing what a little elbow grease can do. That looks great. 

[Jim]

Very nice machine & great work on polishing things up ! ! !

[Eric]

Love the Dr Pepper look.. what a great survivor! don't change a thing!

[ld26]

that is one sweet machine

[bcharlton]

Dave,

Can you list the process of cleaning it up?  Did you wet sand with 1200?  Did you buff with an abrasive?  I may just clean up my Jacobs 56 Pepsi due to its very good original condition.  Someone else on the board did a step by step "clean up " process that made the original machine look great.  Any help?

[Seven181]

That is so cool! I love the look of it!


Brian