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I notice several have a list of what they have under their name... thought it would be kinda fun
Post picture(s) of your machine(s) or cooler(s)... We love pictures... I will tonight... (as I'm at work...ON BREAK)

Here is  a picture of Christine.
1967 Vendorlator VF-165
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Here is couple of my machines

Here are some of mine...most of the rest can be seen in the Photo Gallery.

just a couple of past machines.

Just a few ,  got to work on the other's   , you can go to customsodaworks face book page or customsodaworks and see more  :smile:

Here are mine!

one machine -not quite finished - but proud

       Sold to a collector in N.J

Great idea for a topic, I love seeing what everyone has!

Here's my collection in a nutshell,

1: USS-8-64, rocking a Capitals sign for the playoffs!  The workhorse.

2: VF90, my perpetual restoration machine...first one, and I know its not worth much, but one of these days it'll be finished.

3: V-44, bought off Craigslist, all original.  Rewired and buffed the paint and double my $$

Not pictured: 3 USS-8-64, 2 CSS-8-64, 1 CSS-12-96, Westinghouse Standard

Okay trying this again...  Here is my 7UP transitional and Vendo 63.  Also the C-51s in my profile pic.

Hey Red Sparks can you tell me what the differance in the regular 7up,and the transitional machine is? I found a dr pepper machine that looks like yours.I like it ..Thanks

Here is three of mine...

To my understanding these are from when they went from the round top 7UP 81 to the square top style in the 60's.  They were only made for a short time in 1959, and you will notice it still has the coin door and mech on the outside.  Mine is embossed with a different older 7UP emblem under the red logo sticker you see.  As for a Dr. Pepper transitional I don't know...  Maybe someone else can tell you more.  There were possibly some generic transitionals that were made.  So if its a decent machine and its not embossed than you can make it whatever you want.  Personally I feel the pure cane sugar Dr. Pepper is the nectar of the Gods and would love to have a Dr. Pepper machine.  Again I am just going with what I have learned from here so there is probably more to know.  A pic of the one your looking at would help the others tell you more...    

It does look different,i like it and want to got get it..I just dont know what it is..http://abilene.craigslist.org/clt/2327932865.html

Looks like a Selectivend but taller than a Selectivend 48...

Its a selectivend 96 conversion. It is a VERY tall and heavy machine. Due to its size they are not very popular. It was originally a single vend small bottle only that was later converted to a multi vend machine. They are not very common but still not very sought after as with other big machines. I have not had the 96 but have had the 48 model and they are even much heavier than the Vendo machines.

Really,i learn a few things on here everyday..The heavy part scares me..Thanks guys

My 1st and hopefully more to come.

Hopefully a Vendo 81 will be next

My oddball collection of old machines that plug in and light up.  Soda machines in progress.

Here are a few things in one of my offices.  :drinking:

Rod what type of tune's is the funtronic's juke jamming?  I really like that thing...  Not that the rest of the show case isn't outstanding but that juke has outstanding color.

Yes that juke is awesome. When I was a kid we had a Seeburg G that was done just like that. It sat in our kitchen with a Vendo 39. My friends thought we were crazy, but it got me into the hobby and I love it. Just think now some of your sons will carry on the hobby like I did. I really thank my dad for sharing this with me and it really gives us something to talk about to this day. So all of you Dads that take your kids along on finds and let them help build machines it will pay off down the road.

Rod - I am aghast!....Someone put a PEPSI clock on your wall!  :oh:

one of them

Mostly 50's tunes. I also have some Coke records in it (Buy the World a Coke Etc. Etc.)

Rod....I like the "Shop Refreshed" Coke cardboard....Is that Janets'? :biggrin:
   TFJ

Here's my machines, all projects. Vendo 39 complete, Vendo 44 shell, VMC 81 7up currently a daily driver soon to be restored, Cavalier 72 complete and Ideal 55 keeps the beer cold. Hopefully Wurlitzer 1015 in the future.

Motoman pretty cool room  :drinking:

Here are two of mine: a complete Vendo 56 and the first of two of my current projects: AN Orange Crush VMC 3D-33. The other is going  to be a VMC 110 Orange Crush.

Hey thanks Ciawarrior, it's a work in progress. Everyone tells me I have too many machine's but I don't think I have a enough. I'm dying for a Wurlitzer 1015 down there and a gas pump. Gas pump is more likely to be next, 1015 is just too pricey right now, but someday.

upi can find a complete, unrestored 1015 around 3500. Keep in mind they only play 78's , perosnally, I love big band and old blues.

I love classic rock, can you find alot of classic rock on 78's? I know nothing about vinyl but would be something I'd like to get into.

I don't think you'll find much classic rock on 78. 78rpm started to die out from the mid fifties onwards.

What you do get is some stonking R & B... A Wurly 1100 is very high on the wants list. 

Some pictures of my little room.. There's a 39 and a Jacobs 50 hidden amongst
all the other tat...

Dave is correct, motoman,  there are 1015 rero's, the Wurlitzer One more time that play 45's or Cd's, 

Dave  great pictures  :tounge:

back in the late 80's when the one more time 1015 first came out my father was a dealer for them. They are very well built for reproductions and are nice boxes. I agree that I love the look of the original 1015 but since it only plays 78's just makes it not very practical. I would get a seeburd c, g or R instead or even a Rockola from the late 50's. They are great boxes. If you on a budget you can get an AMI F cheap and although they are somewhat ugly its still a 50's just and you cant beet the sound from an AMI.

I'd second that as well, yes I'd love a 1015, but it's too old to go with my era of stuff.. my 50's era Seeburg G fits in nicely with the chrome and colors of the 50's.. when I do get my 1015 or 1100 Wurly, it will most likely go upstairs with the other Antiques. (yes my wife already said so)!!! wooo hooo!

Yes I've seen the one more time jukeboxes but theres nothing like having an original. But in the 1950's Wurlitzer created 45 conversion kits for the 1015. Now if I could find one that was converted with one of those kits thatd be sweet. But I'm sure those go for alot more $. I honestly look at the 1015 as piece of art, and in my opinion its the Mona Lisa of jukeboxes. And Dave that is an amazing collection you got there!

Everybody's stuff is nice.  I like Moondawgs racial machine.  Very cool.  Rod and Janet, cool display case.  Nice 81's, 33, 39's, sliders, 44, 80, jukes, all kinds of stuff that I would like to have.  Dave nice collection of smaller vending machines.  I like the gum, candy, and nut machines you have.  Pretty cool to have a British vendor.  I even noticed a Perfumatic hanging in the background.  Nice.  Maybe I'll take a few shots of my stuff.

You can definately convert the 1015 to play 45s.  My Rockola has essentially the same play and record handling mechanism as the 1015.  There is a plate that you mount to the 45 and it sits in the holder that the 78 originally sat in.  Basically makes the 45 the same diameter as the 78.  I've been playing 45's in mine for almost 20 years.

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Thanks Larry

I have more than fourty vendors on the wall. Mostly British but my favourites are the American bits
I have bought back on my travels or sourced over here.

I think that if I were to buy a 1015 I would want it on 78... There is some great music
out there waiting to be discovered. The orignal Shake Rattle & Roll by Big Joe Turner,
Fats Domino, Chck Berry Ruth Brown... Try some of it on youtube and you'll be hooked.
Without those guys they'd have been no Elvis...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Feq_Nt3nM

I have that exact video in my Youtube favorites too.  Plenty of great 78's out there.

I've had the RC 110 for over twenty years now. I picked up the Pepsi machine three years ago.

Dave your stop and go pulver machine looks mint !

The Pulver machine is in excellent condition. I picked it up whilst in Florida last year
had it shipped to me and bought it home in my luggage. The guy I got it from is a big time collector.
He had a Cop & Robber too but just couldn't stretch to that. 

All I need now is a Zeno....

Completed Projects - Vendo 39, Seeburg HF100G ( Grill being repainted) and WE Telephone booth


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And Projects I wantto get to:
1948 Seeburg 148
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5643820127_2e4751f7f8_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44029043@N00/5643820127/)


Wurly 1015
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Sliders, and the edge of a Wurlitzer OMT, 45 RPM of course =)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4624917883_a7bbe1495e_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44029043@N00/4624917883/)
 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44029043@N00/4624917883/)

Oh man that 1015 you got is gorgeous!

Thanks. I gave up on thinking I'd own one, then made a deal for this one. It's solid, including the often missing coin gear. And I have enough 78's to fill it and then some =)

I am with you Dave!
I bought a seven volume CD set many years ago called Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974.
It has all those guys and more...Ray Charles, The Clovers, The Drifters, Esther Phillips...not all may have made the 78 era, but a lot of great music!