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So I get a call last week  from an old friend of mine about a machine he had for me. Never knowing what he had I really did not get my hopes up too much . The oldtimer friend of mine used to repair/restore Jukes and really did not have many soda machines. I have purchased soda machines and a few jukes from him over the 20 years I have known him. The soda machines he would take in trade from time to time and he would call me. So over the years we have built a good friendship.

 I guess he has been doing this since the early 70s and I know he had quite a few jukes in his storage area, now that he is in his 80s he pretty much does not do this work or have anything left.

 So I go over today and we visit for sometime before he takes me out back to show me the machine he has set aside for me since he knows I like off brand machines. Well my eyes just about popped out of their sockets. I look it over and it is all complete with eveything. I asked him about the history and from what he could remenber, was that he got this early on in the 70s and packed it away and pretty much forgot about. Until now after cleaing  out his storage. So I loaded it up in he van and we talked for awhile longer and I thanked him for the machine and off I went.

 See picture below

Have him check deeper, maybe there's a decapper back in that shed.

Wow, what a nice find.

         OMG  :jawdrop:......Great story

Everyone needs a friend like that! Awesome find...Awesome friend! Congrats!

You don't need that rusty old thing... Just box it up and send it over here. I'll take it off your hands..

HOLY RC COLA, BATMAN!  Sweet score!  It really pays to build relationships with people.  Please, please, please post some more photos!!!!!

 SWEET !!!! Out Standing !!!  There Still out there  :Oo:


                                                                    Leonard

Nice!

Woof! (in a good way!)

amazing find, congratulations

WOOF!

sweet find, congrat's

Some people have all the luck!

outstanding,,I need to get some friends like that..
Looks like that chrome is super shiney or new? Maybe it's a repop machine?  :laugh: :biggrin:

Just kiddin VMC, Nice find there!

lol , to some it might be

Awesome find!!  That will look killer next to your Pepsi 81!  What a great friend!  Nothin' better than making good, lasting connections with folks.

What a great score.  :drinking:

Nice, nice!! :biggrin:

that would be my 81 find for 2010......





2011,2012,2013,2015,2016...................

2201,2202,......


congratulations and an outstanding find, woof woof!

and i think that old boy deserves a beer or more.....



GP

Come on VMC - tell us more!
Did your friend know what an RC Cola VMC-81 is worth? Did he simply give it to you?
Inquiring minds want to know!

Nice, Did you leave skid marks out his driveway getting that machine out of there?

Wow!

It's great to see these machines are still coming out of the wood work.

Congrats and good luck on the restoration.

So no burn out tire marks as I was leaving, did he understand the value? I think to some degree as he said his grandkids wanted to put it on ebay If I did  not want it. I knew that wasn't gonna happen. Remenber he most likley took it on in trade way back when and at that time it would have been $100 or so. Besides this was his gift to me for being friends over the years and not about money.

We spent alot of time together and whenever he needed a hand dropping off a Juke he would call me. When he got in a new machine I would be over there helping cleaning up or whatever was needed.

We always had a good time as he would tell me storys of his days growing up and the things he used to do. In those days people got along with a whole lot less than they do these days. So much simplier

So you see this was a gift from a friend to a friend and he was happy to see that I appricated it.

That is an amazing friendship gesture ! ! !
Even though, he is no longer restoring, please be sure to take time and visit him from time to time.
And hopefully, he'll get to see the machine restored before his age gives way...

That is what friends are all about! Not about haves or have nots! Congrats again!

You don't find to many friends like that to much anymore. Congrats in more than one way!

So many more people of your friend's generation are like that than those of us today.  A handshake was all that was needed and a man's word was his bond. 

Thanks for a great story and thank your friend for us, too.

What an awesome story.. It's great having a buddy like that. I have a couple of friends like that as well and there's never an issue of giving each other stuff.

VMC 81.. just to continue this warm fuzzy vibe with the Friendship conversation.. I'll be your friend and you can give it to me me, and in turn I'll someday give it to someone else and we'll just keep it going...?? :biggrin:

sorry Signguy but you  will have to wait for sometime for that to happen