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Just thought I would share with everyone what I found last night! I know it's not much but it was free! I got a call from a friend yesterday about a man that was cleaning out a building and had an "old" coke machine that he was going to haul off. All I thought was "old coke machine" and hurried down town to get it. It was kind of disappointing when I found it, but at the same time kind of exciting to get it for free. I will probably strip it down and throw the rest away. I has a really good coin mech, cooling system and the inside is virtually rust free. If anyone needs anything from it, just let me know!

Why not paint it red and get rid of the brown. You can polish that turd into something nice.

Joey

I agree with joey, especially if it works, and the innards are rust free. Not everyone wants, or can afford a roundtop machine

I agree - repaint or simply clean up and get it working properly, then sell it or donate it to a tax deductible place and get a write-off for $300 or so.

Sure!  Peel off the woodgrain contact paper and paint the rest red or white.  It's too good a machine to scrap out, and those are pretty popular with the non-collector general public, as well as the collectors that might not have a few thousand to spend on a machine.  You could easily make a few dollars (or more) on that one if you just make it look nice.  Heck, you could probably just give it a bath, make sure the lights and all work, and sell it as is for a couple hundred!

I'd say keep it and restore it as well, you got nothing into it.. put some nice paint, on it, some decals, maybe make or get a new (older) sign for the front and you'd have a nice little machine to sell or keep..
see example found on the web... I think Curtiss has used this machine to make some killer fantasy machines too... options are endless..

Looks like a can vendor ( if I view the rack correctly)

I've just listed my V63 on Ebay and now I'm looking at the picture above and thinking I must hold onto it...

Dave

Thats a great find... I wouldn't part that out. Is there a model # on it? I thought it was a USS-64, but the stack looks a bit different.

Disappointed? No way! Those are nice machines! So it's brown, it doesn't have to stay that way. Mine use to have woodgrain (see my profile pic)

Not a USS 64 but still a nice old Cav.  That machine is a great garage machine if you decide to keep it.  If you want to make a buck or two just clean it up and sell it.  If you are careful when you remove the woodgrain, you may find that the machine has a nice paint-job underneath!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

Your stack has been robbed of the gates to make it free vend. Other than that they are nice. You machine is  CS-64G. I have had dozens of them. Here is a before and after of the same machine.

Wow, it looks like it is really great shape and you certainly can't beat the price. I know that vinyl wood grain is passé to most, BUT you can always get a red machine somewhere else and leave it just as it is. I doubt you can ever get new vinyl to replace it if it was ever damaged/removed. The wood grain machines in excellent shape are going to be harder and harder to find in the future and yours was for a special market. I feel that yours is one of those machines that could become more valuable because of it's low production and peoples quickness to trash them. It would be harder to restore it in the future to it's current configuration than to acquire another machine that is all red. Just look back through history and see all of the things (Mod Top Plymouth cars come to mind) that were altered because the prevailing wisdom was it was "garish, ugly, dated", etc. were destroyed or altered from OEM standards and lost their value. Where as if it hadn't it would fetch a premium. SO, if you don't like it, sell it to someone who does and get  a machine you do like or hang on to and enjoy it for what it is. Don't be hasty to alter it just because people tell you to. The money it would take to alter it could be spent easily to fetch a machine you prefer.

I have personally had two brown CS-64's that once torn down I found that the bottler had painted it brown to put in an office. It had originally been red and white. Look on the bottom or the machine and see what color it is.

I doubt it is a repaint. Look at the door it's brown inside. Most repaints won't even bother painting things unseen when in service.

Oh yeah, and the screw heads are not painted either.