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Well, it's that time of year again, to let us all know how good 2014 was to you.  Share with us all what you were lucky to score this year, (If you havnt posted a pic of it here when ya got it... we like pictures!)
Here's hoping that 2015 will bring us more cool stuff!

I must say looking back this year, either I got lucky, or I'm  OCD (my wife will say the latter lol)

(2) 7up Quikold Standards
Grapette Quikold Standard
Nesbitts Quikold Standard
Pepsi Quikold Jr
(2) Pepsi Quikold Standards
Grapette Quikold Jr
Double Cola Quikold Master
7up Quikold Jr.
Rc 110
7up VMC 33

48" French Coke button
(2) 4 x 8 porcelain coke signs

Damn! That's a ton of quikolds for one year! I've seen the pics of the one pepsi standard with the swirl design, can u post pics of the other one?

It's the yellow one with the Pepsi inserts (I sent to the site).

oh yeah, duh, quite the haul this year, nice job

My favorite finds of 2014 has to be these. My local flea market had a little chicago in it that day.

         13 nearly complete Ideal 55 sliders....... but all were in pieces. Came from one of the Gunna' brothers. :biggrin:
     
         That Ideal 300 in the picture was not part of the purchase, but is there for comparison. It's a monster.

Glen and I found the toughest thing to find,  a good quality painter!

Glen your living the Dream!

2014 was the best year I've had in 15 years of messing with this great hobby.


Soda Machines was one of my best years

RC 81
Pepsi 81
Coke 81A
Coke 81D X 4
Transitional 81 X 3
Ideal 35 RC
Ideal 35 generic
Ideal 55 Pepsi
Ideal 55 RC
Ideal 55 Generic
Quikold Standard RC
Cavalier 51
Vendo 39 X2
VMC 44
VMC 110 7up
Vendo 110 small door
Cavalier 64 X3
VMC 33 coke

Gas Pumps: I bought over 25 pumps this year Here are a few of the better ones.

Erie Clockface
Sharmeter Clockface
Bennett Twin
MS 80 script top mobil X2

I bought over 300 signs in 2014 everything from a $25 AC Spark Plug Sign all the way up to Rare Cities Service Kite Signs. Several candy machines, U select It, Gumball type etc.

Wow !!!!!
Looks like some did really Great !!



My only great finds were some new friends on SMC  :tounge:

Damn all that's left to find for you is a Vendo Decapper!!

No vendo decapper! But I do have a few other great finds in the works.

I forgot the single door true bar that I found as well.

     Joey, Rod, Ed, Jim and others have had some incredible finds this year... they deserve an entire thread of their own! :happydrinkers:

     We look forward to this time  here at SMC when ALL members, new and old, share their best finds of the year.

     Hoping everyone will look through their recent picture files, pull up your favorite 2014 find, and share?       :hopefull:



    

My 20 14 find was a true single door cooler that I restored

OK Moondawg here ya go. 2014 Favorite find is my Baby Mills 45.

Both great machines, thanks for sharing!

Beautiful machine Seth. More pictures

Wow!!! Really really sweeet machines~

Didn't add anything to the collection this year.  I'm only a couple hours from Joey so now I know why there wasn't much that popped up around me - Joey got it all!!  Great looking stuff, hope 2015 is just as good.

       I heard Joey has been travelling the country with a dog named Freon.  :biggrin:

I picked this up last week. Plan to use it with my home Drive-in setup

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2014 was an ok year for me, I spent a lot more time on projects in my new home, so coin-ops took a back-seat, but still picked up a few good ones.

Got my 1948 Hotpoint Fridge finished up, very happy with that one, just need to find a place in the house for it now.

Picked up a load of NOS candy vending machines, which are now all around the place with members here

Found a 'non-working' 60's Bally slot machine for $150, one small adjustment to the slug rejector and it works great

A few random coin-ops:

30's Dime-A-Wake Motel Alarm Clock
2 coin-op hotel appliance timers
2 postage stamp vendors (one converted to a candy vendor)

But by far the best find was the random auction box I picked up for $17 thinking it was leather working tools...turned out to be jewelry making tools and had several hundred $ worth of gold stock that I have turned into a bunch of rings for my wife and family.

Hope everyone had a great year and here's to a great 2015!  :happydrinkers: :happydrinkers: :drinking: :drinking:

I haven't really picked up anything for myself as have been busy restoring stuff for others...
but have picked up about 4 Vendo 81's over the year when they came up.
Bought a Stoner Jr, that I'm restoring for myself now. Photos coming of that soon).
but northing else for myself..

No more room anyways...  :down: