Victor 4-Door Chest Cooler

[SelVend 7 up]

That is an awesome find though......with a great country store story.

[BONOVOX]

Congrats on the cooler!  I too am having a 3door restored (by Pat) to be turned into my bar.
Although with mine, I took out the motor, and the doors etc... and will be getiing a stainless counter and counter top made up for it.
The 3 door is heavy, I cant even think about a 4 door.

Every day I look at my staircase to the basement and think how am I going to get it down lol...... I think I might let gravity just work it's magic 

[SodaShopNick]

bonovox, yep I believe mine is just under 800 lbs, but feels like about 2000 when you try and lift it.   I with you on the gravity theory of getting it down stairs!!!!

[sc1101]

Looks like its in great shape. Nice find!

[HowDueYouDue]

Great find. Congrats and enjoy

[cola62]

Looks great, good pick-up

[vintage-air]

Nothing like the victor coolers for sure. I too found mine on Craigslist in a small town just east of Indy. It spent its whole life in the same spot from new. The building, currently slated to be torn down due to new construction, was functioning as a small town bar but closed a few years back. In its hay day, the building was actually a schoolhouse where the cooler was used in the cafeteria. Pretty neat story and pretty neat price at $500. I enjoy mine everyday so good luck with yours.

[SodaShopNick]

Vintage-Air,

I love your story.  I only wish in my case I would have stopped by the country store my victor was at and took a picture with it in it.  Do you do any restoring of yours at all?  For me I have to at minimum replace the evap fan motor, but I am thinking about doing something with the removable grates and bottom of the inside of the cooler.  I don't want to spend alot of money as this is just going to be for me, but would love to know your thoughts if you did anything like this.  You can PM me directly if you would like.

Thanks,
Nick

[SodaShopNick]

Well, it has a been a little over a year and I am finally finished working on this Victor 4-door cooler.      Besides a repaint and replacement compressor, which looked to me to be done when it was in service and a long time ago, it was complete.  It worked before I started working on it, but had to hand crank the evaporator fan to get it going.  A year later, one new evaporator fan, new wiring, one new thermostat, one new 3 in 1, some POR15 putty and paint on the tub floor, some hammer-tone paint on the tub walls and many hours of hand cleaning and polishing it is finally done.   Oh and lets not forget the moving company I had to use to get it from my garage to my basement.    It now works perfectly, but will probably only be turned on when we have parties.   Next I will be getting a counter top for it.  I was lucky enough to find original counter-top brackets on eBay.   I did want to thank everyone on this forum for all your help.   A special thanks to Ken (kbareit) and the people at soda works jerks for going above and beyond in their assistance.   Here is a link to some before and after pictures:

http://s40.photobucket.com/user/ndercole/slideshow/Victor%20Cooler

[GreenMo]

That looks amazing!  Outstanding job!