Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on November 28, 2005, 06:59:24 pm
Some of you may remember the basket case Vendo 56 I bought a few months ago on ebay. Heres a few pics of it before the cutting and welding took place.
It was rough but what I feel a hard enough machine to locate worth saving
Joey
It was rough but what I feel a hard enough machine to locate worth saving
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on November 28, 2005, 07:02:00 pm
Heres a few pictures of it taken tonight. I had a friend of mine do the welding, it turned out fairly nice from what it once was. It still doesnt look pretty but coming along.
More than likely the machine will have a new home on Saturday
Joey
More than likely the machine will have a new home on Saturday
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: loman4ec on November 28, 2005, 07:43:51 pm
Joey that looks great!! What a good idea. I wish I had the $$$ to make its new home mine.
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: Creighton on November 28, 2005, 07:58:22 pm
Joey,
Great start! You get the save of the week award!!
Creighton
Great start! You get the save of the week award!!
Creighton
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: Eric on November 28, 2005, 08:57:41 pm
Way to go Joey! You gonna sell it?... Man put those picture in the gallery.... A neat way to
show how a basket case can come back around...
Looks great! (Great welding job!)
Eric
show how a basket case can come back around...
Looks great! (Great welding job!)
Eric
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: Lulu on November 29, 2005, 06:12:35 am
Nice job!! What donor machine did you use?
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on November 29, 2005, 06:16:14 pm
the cabinet was used from a Vendorlator 56
Joey
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: audiobeer on November 30, 2005, 03:51:25 pm
Nice! I wouldn't have thought that would have ever been of any use! Great job! Nice stitching....Looks like you may have clipped a car or two! 
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on November 30, 2005, 06:30:25 pm
The only cars Ive ever stiched were the ones I cut up for scrap. I part out Camaros, and Firebirds for another hobby. It helps offset costs of soda machines, and my Camaro. The way I look at things is its never to rough to be rebuilt and fixed. Somethings just take more time and love than others. Sometimes its just not worth fixing things as they arent as valuable or scarce as others.
Joey
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: audiobeer on November 30, 2005, 06:55:05 pm
It's a #### of a lot of satisfaction when you can turn one around as God Awful as that one was. Fantastic job! I'd love to see this one when its all said and done!
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on November 30, 2005, 06:57:32 pm
It will be going to its new home Saturday, I wont be the one doing the finishing work
Joey
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: Eric on December 01, 2005, 08:52:03 am
Is it heading to Ozark?..... Love to see it the rest of the way through it's restoration.
And the finished product... You selling or wheel'n and deal'n on something else?...
How's the 81 coming?.....
Eric
And the finished product... You selling or wheel'n and deal'n on something else?...
How's the 81 coming?.....
Eric
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on December 01, 2005, 08:58:14 am
Yep going to Randy in Ozark, 81 is coming along smoothly I just installed the coin mech, door liner, linkage, lightbar, insulation etc. starting to work on the bottle stack. I figure another 2 months and it will be done. Randy is fixing me up with a cooling unit for the 81 and probably other goodies.
Joey
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: Eric on December 01, 2005, 11:52:38 am
Cool! Yeah he's the man.... Get pictures when he gets it done and post that baby in the gallery! Well I'll be buggin' you when I take my 81 stack apart..... that may be a good winter project for me.
Eric
And Hey! Where's the pictures of the 81!? (You know the rules Joey!
) I would like to see the progress so I can get an idea of how to put mine back together!.....
Eric
And Hey! Where's the pictures of the 81!? (You know the rules Joey!
) I would like to see the progress so I can get an idea of how to put mine back together!..... Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: coke_and_stuff on December 04, 2005, 05:43:52 am
Well the 56 is now gone, I traded it to Randy in Ozark yesterday. I ended up getting rebuilt cooling units with warrantys for my 81, and a friends 39, a large door coin door bezel for a VMC, and the bottle door cut out on my vendo 56 im keeping. The 56 wasnt all I traded but I feel I did pretty well.
Joey
Joey
Title: Vendo 56 update
Post by: johnieG on December 04, 2005, 09:28:42 am
Excelent Job dude! it shows you what can be achived with a little determination, another classic saved from the scrap heap.