Latest Buy--RC Embossed Ideal 55

[mznb1u]

It has been almost one year since I picked up my first machine.  Last year on 3/15/08 I picked up my USS-8-64 and I have been hooked ever since!

Picked up a pretty good deal today--machine number 13 in keeping with my one machine per month rule.  An RC embossed Ideal 55. 

This is the second non-Coke machine to cross the threshold of our home since I got into this crazy hobby.  My wife's family bottled Coke for four generations so I was taking a big risk.  It is not pretty but the cabinet is straight and the interior is rust free.  It also cools--according to the seller but the deal was good whether it did or not.

Need a rack, coin mech, key for the side door and lid braces to complete it.  Will an allen wrench open that side door?  What is the trick.

The guy threw in some spare parts from another Ideal machine.  It turns out that I am now the proud owner of some very nice parts for an Ideal 85T if by chance anyone out there happens to be working on one.  I have a perfect top painted 7up green complete with the hinges, two of the side service panels and much of the coin mech in pieces including the coin box.  The bonus box o' parts also contained the coin return and bottle opener bezels in great shape.

Here are some photos!

  Tim

[mznb1u]

And one more plus a picture of the 85T bezels.

  Tim

[Ltransam]

 Good Job !!
 May they keep coming  I started with 1 Now I have 18 no 20 ??   It Never ends

                                            leonard

[Pat Pixley]

Tim looks great for $50 its going to look great restored Coca Cola Red
 
   Hey it was good talking to you today I'll send off the info when I find it on my Desk and as far as those bezels look like LaCrosse to me.

[David D]

That is a great deal, the bezels look like Vendolator to me, they are very similar to what I have on a Vendolator 56.

[coke_and_stuff]

Those bezels are indeed Vendorlator, They were on the early squaretop V56 and V81s and a few others.

Joey

[Seven181]

Tim, nice score!!!!!  The embossed RC is a cool machine.


Brian

[SIGNGUY]

WOW, Great score ... I am in the same dilema with the NON Coke stuff.. my family (Grandfather, Father and me for a short time when I was younger) owned operated and worked a Coca-Cola Bottling plant... so even there there are several cool branded machines out there.. I don't dare put on in the collection, granted I do own a few "P" machines, but I have to tell them, (the family) they are just for resale!
Nice RC!

[GreginNM]

Nice score, Tim!  Man, I wish I had the room to collect at the rate you are!  I think for starters, my wife would kill me!  I don't have the brand preference problem...she doesn't see the need for more than one of a certain brand (except DP, of course!     ).  Way to go!

[loman4ec]

Great find. I love the RC Machines when done in the original yellow. If I were you I would buy and empty coin mech housing and restore the machine without a rack. I think these machines are so much better without the rack. It makes it a second refrigerator. With a rack its just another bottle machine but without it you can use it for anything that needs to stay cold.