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I want to restore a Vendo 23 to put in my house.  I have six machine total right now, none of which have been restored.  I like the standard 23 which is all red but I like the deluxe because it has embossed lettering.  What is your opinion one taking a deluxe and painting it completely red including the top.  Would this kill the value of the machine?  I just hate the silver top.....

Thanks, Ryan

It depends on what you want to do with it. If you are building it for yourself I would do it how you like. If you are building it to sell I would say go origional. Even if this restoration is for your own collection and you might sell it later on it will be easy to paint the top later down the road. I say go with what you like.

Hey Ryan,

As loman4ec has stated, it is your call and repainting a lid is much easier than a portion of a machine!
My personal opinion for what it's worth is restoring machines/coolers to orignal paint schemes...

      The silver was never Coca Cola's color to start with, so it looks lke an odd part of their lineup!

      Secondly the silver never seems to throw as nice a gloss as the red.

      I would paint it all red and still refer to it as a deluxe.

Ryan , welcome to the board glad your here.
As far as your 23 Like Glen was saying  Paint it red
It will look better plus you will feel better about it in
the long run.

 Pat

Welcome aboard Ryan! I restored one a while back and painted it solid red. Looked great

As far as the paint scheme, I'd like it with the silver. I have seen them with a later red/white cabinet look and I think they look pretty good also.
BUT, with that said, my original V23 manual does not designate a certain paint scheme for the V23, yet the only difference between the Standard and Deluxe models was features.
The Standard top was actuated by the spintop rotating and had a coin mech with 1 cog and a basic bottle door handle on top.
The Deluxe top was actuated by the 'star' knob and had an actuator with 3 cogs with a little fancier chrome bottle door handle.
The Standard cabinet had the embossed CC plate and 'ICE COLD' embossed just underneath and did not have bexels around the coin return, bottle opener or storage cabinet handle; whereas the Deluxe cabinet had the embossed CC plate with 'ICE COLD' embossed on the storage door and had bezels everywhere (BO, CR, lid handle & cabinet handle).
The Standard cabinet had decals for the BO, CR and Storage and none on the sides.
The Deluxe cabinet had BO, CR decals and 'Have a Coke' on the sides.

It is my opinion that you could order the V23 with whatever features you wanted. I have seen a lot of them on Ebay (most incomplete) and most seem to be a mixmatch of features.