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There was a post discussing a Pepsi 44 on e-bay. When my buddy had his collection he had 3 fantasy 44's. 2 were VMC's and 1 was a Vendo.  Wanted to share the photo as I thought they looked pretty cool. I included the links, just click on them to view the photos.

He also had a couple of fantasy 39's done, Orange Crush and Nesbitts.

Needless to say all 5 machines were fantasy but were embossed. Not sure where embossing came from, I would have to assume some type of chest or picnic coolers.
 

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those are definitely cool, I think an orange crush embossed 33 would be killer

I hope that nesbitts embossing didn't come off a quikold jr or standard, what do you think Eric?  looks like it could have...

I love the way the 44's look as a Pepsi and RC..... I would have to put the RC as the best looking fantasy.  It just looks so right!

Another View....

 :down: Yeah as cool as these look and are... I hate to think a Quikold had to be put down...
hopefully it was too far gone to restore.

Also looks to be maybe a Squirt 39 in the background... there was a nice fantasy Squirt 39 at Chicago a couple years back... looked great
 I just love all the colors of the machines here... not overdone... these do look nice and if you're a RC or Nesbitt's fan there isn't much out there
.. though I like original stuff, I think a RT 56 all done in blue with Pepsi 33 embossing would be awesome... Its neat to see what can be done with
the talents of a welder, a good autobody man and some paint...  Guess these are the lowered, tubbed, streamlined custom hotrods of the soda world.
It just becomes a different story when down the road these can be passed off as rare, original prototypes or barn finds.

And... I wonder what the embossing “Orange Crush” came off of.. that “g” in orange is different than anything I've ever seen embossed,

Fantasy or not, those are beautiful. That blue looks really good on a 44.

The 44's do look nice all lined up in different colors. I only wish they came originally that way.

        Not embossed, but here is a  33 Ray did for him.

        Also some generic repro picnic coolers that were uniquely embossed.
 

awesome collection does he still have it

Collection was sold about 3 years ago.

Was that Mike's collection on the central coast?

Yes.