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Sold today onsite for $13,000.

Here is the link:

https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=10390&aid=102386&lid=27158739&title=EXTREMELY-RARE-1954-CAVALIER-102-COKE-MACHINE

Had some great items here today.

Jeff

I wonder how many 102's exist? I personally have seen two of them.

I've only seen one in all my travels, rare machine for sure!

Wasn't there a story that one side was for black people, the other side for whites? Or was it just that, a story.

Hi Jeff. I was at Bobs auction too. Lots of nice stuff.

I believe that was a notation in one of Jeffs books. Not sure if was substantiated.

          I sold this one for a friend a few years ago, $12,500.00 fully restored.

Rare yes, but surprised how much they bring in. The Cavalier 51 is not the most sought after machine as it's rather plain and just not every exciting, this is just 2 of them. Haha. It's also a hard machine to display as it takes room because it's a walk around machine, can't really put it against a wall. I buddy of mine had one for years and I tried to sell it for him a couple of times. It was perfectly restored and he wanted around $12,000 for it, no takers. He ended up selling it with his collection.

They are cool, and yes difficult to display. I almost owned one once but it went over 10k in 1999 (unrestored but really decent) when you could pick up an RC 81 for less than that.
Right about the same time all of the rare Orange Crush and Frostie RB 81's started popping up ( wink wink ) and the machine market started turning into a small Peyton Place.

Really interesting machines I have seen 3 in person before. I would like to own one someday. I have a friend with one and have been working on him to sell it to me. Who knows maybe one day.




Don

Yes there was.

Those two double visables brought big money.

I was eyeing up the little Wayne 100. It ended up going for around $2700.

Shackelton had an auction Saturday as well.

BK SuperAuction looked like a much better slection and only an hour further for me.

And now back to the 102. Fuel pumps while they are cool, start a new thread in chit chat please.
I was lucky to see the one Moondawg sold. Great restoration! Think the white/black was based on one photo from the deep south in the 40/50's. My bet they were used in factories for the most part.
Creighton
 

I happened to meet a former Coca Cola executive who has a 102 at his summer home.  He obtained it when they were being pulled from service and he had the maintenance guys in his vending department to a full refurbishment on the machine before he took it home.  Would love to get my hands on that one.

Not to bring up gas pumps.  :laugh: 8) :biggrin: But it was my understanding that this machine was originally designed to sit on the pump island at the gas station so people on either side of the pump could buy a Coke without walking around to the other side of the machine.  Could be wrong  but it makes sense to me.

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

Tim, this is what I understand as well, it was made for service stations to sit on Gas Pump Islands so while people where pumping gas, they could buy a coke right there as well. Great Product placement by Coke at the time..

With all the fantasy machines being "made" it could be a fun project to make a Vendo 162 , Weld To Vendo 81's together...  or how bout a Vendo 78 , 2 Vendo 39's back to back....  :glare: :Oo: :biggrin:

I hadn't heard the gas station explanation until today. It makes perfect sense and a much better one than the black/white thing as far as business sense goes.

I thought they were Irish machines for Protestants and Catholics.  Gas station sounds the best so far.

       I thought they were designed for lunch rooms, vending twice the amount of product in a very short amount of time.

Glen could be used for that as well, or any high volume area as long as you had access to both sides and not up against a wall...