My Delf Has Landed !!

[GreginNM]

Leonard, your machine looks awesome!  Great rare addition to the collection.

Pat, awesome job, as always!  Bet it will be a GOOD while before you do another one of those!

[mznb1u]

Hauled many machines in our Escape. Cut a tennis ball to cover the lower center rear door latch post.
6" cardboard tube to roll machines over and in to the cargo space.

Creighton--the tennis ball is a great idea.  I hauled many machines in my wife's mini-van and my old Dodge Magnum and hope to haul a few more in my new Dodge Journey.  I usually just pad the latch post with a stadium blanket folder over a few times.  The Magnum and Journey have a storage area below the rear floor.  I keep a 3 foot long piece of 2.5" PVC, work gloves and a couple stadium blankets in there so I am always ready to pick up a machine.  That PVC makes single handed loading a breeze!

You do have to be careful though because of the no tie down issue.  A few years back after I picked up my Canada Dry VMC 110 (sold to bonovox), some idiot cut me off and I had to jam on the brakes.  That machine almost visited me in the front seat.

That would have been an interesting news story:  Killed by a vintage vending machine while driving down the road!  "We'll miss Tim", said members of the Michigan SMC Mafia, "but thank God that machine came through the wreck in one piece.  Restored that thing is worth $5 maybe $6 thousand!" 
 
You guys wouldn't do that would you?

Tim

[BONOVOX]

Wow Tim, I never knew the 110 almost embossed ya!  Im off to Vegas for my 40th, and I hope to break the bank there and get the 110 moving with the restoration.  Looking more and more like it's gonna be a Orange Crush 110. 

And yeah, the tubing idea that Tim just mentioned above, works GREAT, he had that machine loaded in my trailer with EASE!!!
I usually lay blankets down and give a good push on the machine, but my back pays for that move the next day!

 

[Kilroy]

You do have to be careful though because of the no tie down issue.  A few years back after I picked up my Canada Dry VMC 110 (sold to bonovox), some idiot cut me off and I had to jam on the brakes.  That machine almost visited me in the front seat.

That would have been an interesting news story:  Killed by a vintage vending machine while driving down the road!  "We'll miss Tim", said members of the Michigan SMC Mafia, "but thank God that machine came through the wreck in one piece.  Restored that thing is worth $5 maybe $6 thousand!"  
 
You guys wouldn't do that would you?

Tim

No Tim we wouldn't say that. We would mention a restored V110 goes for $2000

[johnieG]

Tim,

"That would have been an interesting news story:  Killed by a vintage vending machine while driving down the road!  "We'll miss Tim", said members of the Michigan SMC Mafia, "but thank God that machine came through the wreck in one piece.  Restored that thing is worth $5 maybe $6 thousand!"  biggrin Cool laugh"

Hey... it could have been a V83..how embarrassing would have that been?