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Title: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: sodaman on July 11, 2010, 12:26:48 pm There were over 80 soda machines and a ton of parts, bottles, bottle racks and other items sold at auction in Tipton Indiana Saturday in 4 hours or less. Some examples: Complete Vendo 80 $175, complete Vendo 110 $175, V110 no shelves $115, V39 coin door and mech, no drum $60, Cavalier 96 complete $125 Westinghouse BV-56 $75, Vendo 83 complete (rough) $10 Westinghouse 44 $150, Cavalier 51 several of them without belt or coin door but with coin mech $25 each, several Vendo 39 cabinets only $10, Vendo 81B complete $700. Several small square tops, V63, C64 for $10-35, several large machines for $10, 20 picnic coolers embossed Coke $10-75. What I bought: Cavalier 72A complete except for shelves, $225, Ideal 35 embossed Royal crown $85, Ideal 55 embossed Royal Crown $70 (makes the third one of those), 2 coin doors for C51 $10 each, coin door for V81 small door with nice cast coin entry $75, box of parts with 2 small door coin mechs and an incomplete large mech and 5 slug rejectors $100, box of parts that included cast doors for VMC 27 or 27A $30, box of parts that included a drawer type cap catcher for a Westinghouse cooler $12.50, 3 cap catchers for bowed out coolers $10 each, by that time I had the S-10's bed loaded, the back of the seat and the passenger seat loaded with parts!!
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: photogman on July 11, 2010, 12:30:33 pm What's the old saying....."read and weep". I'm jealous, but obviously happy for you sodaman! That auction kind of sounds like those unreal morel spots you run across only a couple times in your life.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: RC kid on July 11, 2010, 12:37:35 pm Wow! congrats
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: collecture on July 11, 2010, 01:03:34 pm Sounds like a surreal time! Lots of fun I'm sure!
Looking for a nice unbroken dial selector for a Westinghouse Select-O-Matic WB-60 (same as 78 & 102) and always interested in LD mech parts. If you have anything like that in the parts boxes and feel like parting with them, I'd be interested. Tom Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Seven181 on July 11, 2010, 03:07:34 pm Wow! Some great deals! Any cup machines????? Nice score on the emossed RC 35 and for the low price you got it for!!!
Brian Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: BrianB on July 11, 2010, 03:34:31 pm Was that the parts and machines left from the Byal Bros.?
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Eric on July 11, 2010, 04:03:18 pm Ha! Awesome! Congrats on the score!... And THAT is how you post a auction! :happydrinkers:
Let see some pics! Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: GreginNM on July 11, 2010, 04:35:11 pm CONGRATS on some fantastic scores!! I'm completely jealous over the Ideal 35 and 55 RCs!
Any chance there was a mech cover for an Ideal 35? Greg Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: collecture on July 11, 2010, 07:01:07 pm Was that the parts and machines left from the Byal Bros.? I was wondering the same thing...I dealt with Randy Byal several times. What happened to them? Last time I tried to call...nothing. I did not see Randy listed on the Tipton Pork Festival website either and he was involved with it too. As I recall, the Byals did a lot with Jabobs machines (Indiana Co.). Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: MCarter on July 11, 2010, 07:58:05 pm Yes that is Randy's stuff. He past away late last year if i remember right. Great Guy he will be missed. He had a bunch of stuff besides soda machines.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: collecture on July 11, 2010, 08:02:20 pm Yes that is Randy's stuff. He past away late last year if i remember right. Great Guy he will be missed. He had a bunch of stuff besides soda machines. Sorry to hear that! :down: Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Funtronics on July 12, 2010, 05:38:53 am Yes Randy past away. He will be missed. I met up with his brother about 8 months ago and bought a lot of machines and parts from him. He called and asked if I was coming to the auction last Sat. but it was my daughters 8th birthday. So I didn't make it to the sale. Most of what was left was pretty rough. He still has a lot of the nicer stuff left at his house. Sounds like there was some real bargins at the sale.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: sodaman on July 12, 2010, 01:37:55 pm There was a mech cover for a Ideal 35, it sold for $75 by itself.........One Mills cup machine incomplete, $50 There was a restored standard cooler that was nice that went for $250. I missed a nice original one for $35, the auctioneer was going so fast it was hard to keep up.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Seven181 on July 12, 2010, 10:43:17 pm OH! I would have loved the Mills cup machine!!!! Dang, wish I had known about the auction! Randy was a great guy. When to their location a few times. In fact, got the old 7up Quikold off him that Eric loves! They had a ton of machines in an old fire truck plant. This place was falling in, but very cool. Great guy! His brother was kinda quiet, but Randy was awesome. A very nice guy! Had some RC 81's, I wonder what happened to them?? Rod, do you know?
Brian Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Funtronics on July 13, 2010, 06:55:09 am I bought both the RC 81's.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Seven181 on July 13, 2010, 07:36:07 am Very nice Rod! They were nice machines. I remember them showing me all their stuff!
Brian Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Funtronics on July 13, 2010, 08:46:54 am I was just kidding about buying the RC 81's. :laugh: Just wanted to get everyones heart rate up for a minute or two. I don't think he has the RC machines anymore. Anyway I didn't see them and he didn't say anything about them.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: mznb1u on July 13, 2010, 11:57:05 am I have been quite GREEN with envy for the past couple of hours! :blush:
I know what really happened. You got the two RC's and are having them converted to Orange Crush! :biggrin: 8) :laugh: Oh well, would have been a great score! Someday . . . . . :drinking: Tim :drinking: Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Larry on July 13, 2010, 02:54:07 pm Anyone know who got the Mills? I need a machine to compare to mine. It would be benificial to both of us. Let me know if someone knows whos got the Mills cup machine.
Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Seven181 on July 13, 2010, 06:45:43 pm Anyone know who the auctioneer was? I would like to look at their website to see some of the pics from the event.
Thanks! Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: BronzeGiant on July 14, 2010, 10:50:35 pm I was at this auction as well. I managed to buy two machines. A Selictivend Model 1-A for $25.00 and a gutless Vendorlator VF-81M for $15.00. I don't know if either work yet because they're still in Tipton. My buddy lives there and actually worked at the auction site when it was FMC Fire apparatus. We moved the machines to his garage and they're still there and I live in Indianapolis, about 45 mins away and I haven't had a chance to get back yet. The Selectivend is also still locked with no key, of course, so we have to drill the lock if we can't find numbers. Plus the cord's VERY cracked so I'll replace that before I plug it in. The Vendorlator is missing the bottle stack and all of the shelves, (anybody got any?), and again the cord was bad so we didn't try it. It needs a coin changer as well but he bought about 15 of them at the auction so maybe one of them will work. I don't know if the changer is still in the Selectivend as, like I said, it's still locked.
My buddy bought a Dixie Narco 5 selection can machine for $35.00 (I think) and it kicked right on and started to cool but needs charged as it didn't cool much.....but did run. I hope mine do as well. The Selectivend is painted up for Nehi Beverages on the sides but has a Pepsi sticker on the front, it's my avatar. I plan to change the branding. I have a Coca-Cola themed kitchen but I'm thinking about something different just to add some variety. The Selectivend is small enough to go in the corner of the kitchen so I'm thinking about doing that. I've been going back and forth between the yellow one branded for RC Cola that came up when I entered Selectivend 1-a into Google and the green one for Dr. Pepper pictured on this site under 1-A. I'm kind of committed to Pepsi for the Vendorlator cause it has a molded Pepsi as glass, and that's fine. This was a fun auction with a lot of machines being saved from scrappers and that's a very good thing. Steve Prange Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: BrianB on July 15, 2010, 05:48:52 am Steve,
Welcome aboard SMC! It's great to have you. I live about an 1 hour and 20 minutes south of you down in Bedford. Are these your first machines? If they are, it sounds like you are off to a good start. The parts you need for your 81 will turn up pretty quick. Title: Re: 80 soda machines sold in 4 hours!! Post by: Creighton on July 15, 2010, 11:27:42 am Welcome to the board Steve!!
I have a SV 1-A. Any questions just ask. Creighton |