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Title: VMC 139 7up Post by: ajf5577 on February 23, 2016, 09:34:09 pm This showed up today. It has a great story behind it. In storage since the 50's, the guy opened it in December '15.
He found a bunch of silver dimes in the coin box, a couple hundred old bottle caps in the cap catcher and a bunch of product in the mechanism, around 50 seven up bottles, all never opened. It's a 60 year time capsule. He kept the silver coins and I got the rest. It was a Coca Cola machine first. You can see red everywhere, and the lettering at the top shows through the paint. Its not going to be worked on for a while, but the dilemma is, keep it Seven Up, or turn it back into Coca Cola? Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Troy S on February 23, 2016, 09:47:37 pm Thought I saw that machine on ebay. Wanted to buy the full bottles.
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Eric on February 23, 2016, 09:58:18 pm Wow... cool story.. did you get the bottles too? I like the 7up theme.... was there a 7up in this model?.... With so much Coke stuff I would lean towards the
7up or another brand if there were such options. Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Slapshot42 on February 23, 2016, 10:07:22 pm Wow... cool story.. did you get the bottles too? I like the 7up theme.... was there a 7up in this model?.... With so much Coke stuff I would lean towards the 7up or another brand if there were such options. A few years ago Brian7up81 had a VMC 139 Embossed 7up. Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Slapshot42 on February 23, 2016, 10:08:04 pm Great find usually the "vending carousel" is missing!!
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: ld26 on February 23, 2016, 10:25:20 pm The mechanics on that are so cool, I vote to keep it 7up, congrats
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: ajf5577 on February 23, 2016, 10:27:29 pm A few years ago Brian7up81 had a VMC 139 Embossed 7up. I remember that Jared. I recall that his was a VMC 149. Not much difference and the same outside dimensions. the bottles came with it. I removed them from the front columns but you can see them in the far right column. The stack is jammed in the back so I have to slide it out to get them all. Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Ross on February 23, 2016, 10:45:43 pm Great find. I would say keep it 7up.
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: HowDueYouDue on February 23, 2016, 11:27:03 pm Personally I would keep it 7up. Given the story behind it, I would just wipe it down and keep as is. Congrats on the new addition
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: coke_and_stuff on February 23, 2016, 11:38:38 pm Clean it up and leave as found, neat machine!
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: SodaShopNick on February 24, 2016, 09:26:53 am Great machine, great story....keep as a 7UP....in my opinion
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: MoonDawg on February 24, 2016, 10:49:48 am Just my opinion
Since it's not embossed, it's not really a 7up machine so you would not want to redo it as 7up. Nor would you want to redo it in Coke because nothing you do to it from now on, other than a good cleaning would increase the value. It's a great piece of history, I say keep it just the way it came in. Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Slapshot42 on February 24, 2016, 05:48:57 pm I remember that Jared. I recall that his was a VMC 149. Not much difference and the same outside dimensions. the bottles came with it. I removed them from the front columns but you can see them in the far right column. The stack is jammed in the back so I have to slide it out to get them all. How to you tell the difference just at a glance? Without a the vending carousel they look the the same?? Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: ajf5577 on February 24, 2016, 06:49:35 pm How to you tell the difference just at a glance? Without a the vending carousel they look the the same?? I believe that he said it was a 149. Also, I have seen them with that raised "plug" above the crank. Sometimes the slot is there, but not raised, with a flat filler piece installed. Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: BeaYoung on February 25, 2016, 06:13:24 am Great find!
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: jbrumett on February 25, 2016, 09:37:53 am thought I might chime in and share.....
I actually purchased this embossed VMC 149 from Brian (Seven181) in hopes of one day returning it to its original glory. I realize that there this is not a huge 139/149 market but when I heard that an embossed 7up version existed I had to see it for myself and eventually buy it. The machine is in storage now but here are some pics of what it looks like. I also attached a pic from colamachines.com showing one restored. A special shout out to Leonard (ltransam) for helping me land this thing.....and lifting it...... Jeff Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: ld26 on February 25, 2016, 12:27:17 pm pretty machine when its all done up, good luck
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: Troy S on February 25, 2016, 08:31:31 pm Leave it 7 up
Title: Re: VMC 139 7up Post by: coke_and_stuff on February 26, 2016, 09:44:15 pm Great machine Jeff, Yes big but also very very rare!
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