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I ran across this website a little while back -

http://www.kccoinop.com/

I like their commitment to originality such as plating with Turn of the Century watts nickel as opposed to current plating techniques. It is a very purist attitude.
Doesn't appear that they do soda machines, but they do a lot of other coin-ops.

Looks like they do a great job. I like their approach.

Did you notice how everything on that web site is about buying and nothing is about selling?  I did so I called the owner (Johnny) about six months ago. I did end up buying a candy machine from him (click on vending machines and it’s picture #10 :biggrin:) but basically he is just a private collector and rarely sells anything as far as I know.  Every picture you see on that web site, and there are hundreds of pictures, is just stuff in his house.  Really.   :jawdrop:

It is incredible. That picture on the home page is just a small portion of one of his garages.

He gave me a tour and it took almost two hours. I still didn’t see everything. Johnny likes rare original turn of the century pieces the most.  He has some of the neatest stuff I’ve ever seen and every item works perfectly.  Those Violanos are amazing to watch and hear play. He even keeps large buckets full of buffalo head nickels through out his house so you can play all the games as you walk along.

Johnny is at the Chicago show every year if you can talk him out of something but he doesn’t really like soda vending stuff. The only soda vending stuff I saw is shown under “collectables” and then picture #3.

awesome collection

That's a very cool three column vendor.  What's the make?  I almost bought a Three Some vendor last year off of Ebay.  I believe it had more chrome on the side and less on the top.  I don't exactly remember it.  But it was cool.