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Well guess it was meant to be... This was at Chicago in the fall and I wanted it but not $750 wanted it.
Well it came up at auction near Springfield, IL... So I drove up Saturday and won the bid....
It's 32 inches wide... not the 47 inches like the book says... I think the book is in error...
Anyway good and solid... will need to trace all the decals so I can paint and put back just as it was.
ok.. gonna try and post.... if this fails I might need someone to post a better pic...

WOW !!   Great score Eric  so if you don't mind what did you have togive for it ??
 are you going to do a match like in the book ?
 And by the way it looks like your over do for takeing the bottles back :biggrin:.

Wow... thats awesome.. I like it..

Eric,

Nice acquisition ! ! !
I wouldn't mind acquiring a good photo or two pictured slightly off to one side at just the same height as the current photo.
Does it have an ID tag...?

Ha!.. Can't take the bottles back took too long to find those.... all are mint to near bottles from shows and road trips.
Gonna stay original when I restore it.. I'm one of those. Though I might use a off white so it's not so
generic looking... Paid less than the $750 though not by much - stupid buyers premium and IL tax :glare:

They had a Cav 51 and a nice Orange Crush ceramic dispenser... though I didn't stay for those... no money left... also had a pair of those Hula Girl lamps that “dance” from the early '40s I would have loved to have had too... but again funds were gone so my brother and I hit every junk and antique store on the way home...
good road trip.

 A Cav 51 & Orange Crush  You choose right  , but the Hula Girl Lamps   :oh:   Darn  IL  Tax.  :biggrin:
Well it is really  cool.

Nice find!!! Are they embossed as well?

The cooler or the Hula Lamps! Ha
The cooler has the Double-Dot embossing on the front only... the rest is decals(?)
or screened painted on... it has the logo on the top, inside lid, sides and back. Sides also have
a “BIGGER and BETTER with a 5 cent in a large circle. Nice unique little cooler...

I like the white Eric. I did my gullwing blue and that was 15 yrs ago or so. Might restore back to original white.
Even a cream would look good.

What's inside? wire shelves or open?

Again. Great find!! Congrats

WOW Great find,,I remember you drooling over that one in Chicago last year.. now is it the Exact same machine or one just like it? I'll have to flip through my photos and compare...

Great score buddy!.. way to go!

Edit, just looked through my photos and realized it's the same machine!.. very cool Congrats

Sweet find, looks like an Eagle cooler? so what manufacture is it?

In the book they say it's a Heintz.. it doesn't any tags... just a Pepsi Cola tag with a serial number from New York.
Yeah I did the same thing when I saw it online... I checked it against the picture I took... same one.
got lucky... now I need a Quikold junior in Pepsi! :hopefull:

Hi Eric
  Can you post a picture of the top of the chest? It looks like one I sold to a friend in IL a couple of years ago. Hope to see you and Tonya at the show.
  Tom

I love pieces like this, they are neat and unique.

Congrats!!!

Nice looking machine, congrats...

Thanks... I really wanted this cooler when I saw it in Chicago... got lucky that it came around again...
Tom I'll take a picture of the top and post later... Where did you get the one you had? This has a New York tag on it....trying to learn how to post these images bigger so you can actually see them...
Here is the Pepsi 33 I bought and haven't posted....got it in November from Sedalia, MO... before the show in Chicago so once again I walked around with the guys to help them spend their money since I had already spent mine.... good clean machine

Now lets see if this Pepsi 33 image loads....

Nice clean looking 33 Eric.

Very nice 33.  That and the VMC72 are my favorite looking machines.  I saw a Pepsi 33 in a store window for sale back in 1984 and one at the Chicagoland show a year or two ago, both were cheap but my wallet was cheaper.  One day!!  Both an 81 and a Pepsi 33, will be mine. :smile:

Looks Great Eric, and I think you get the image sizing down.. it's nice and big...

John

VERY nice 33 compared to the last couple I bought.

Pepsi 33 looks great Eric.