As I noted in my previous post, Father's Day also happened to be my birthday
so I figured I would get a free pass from the War Department to buy a machine or maybe even two. Well I went out and looked at a couple and only ended up buying one--although I did pick up a nice compressor off of CL the other day to run my recently ordered soda blaster so I guess that counts as two!
In case any of the Michigan guys were watching, I jumped on the Vendorlator VMC-144SA that was posted on E-bay from Ann Arbor last weekend. I contacted the guy to go have a look and he immediately said that if I liked it he would let me buy it and he would end the auction. He wanted $300 but I still had to look at another machine so I told him I would call back after I saw the other machine. Anyway, the other machine turned out to have several problems so I called him back and made a deal. Here is one picture that I grabbed from his E-Bay post. I will post more but I just got it home and it is too dark to take any good pictures. And of course, the machine was in his basement and it was not a walkout.
It took me a while to round up some strong backs as you might imagine so I had to buy a few
! Believe it or not I was able to get it into my wife's Chrysler Town and Country Mini Van!
Neat machine but it is a little heavy. The serial number starts with 1953 so I assume it was made in 53. It is an embossed Coca-Cola and a complete machine which is the main reason that I picked it up.
Anybody know where I can get a manual for this one?
It cools but there is either a problem with the selector switch or the vending motor. This one will have to wait until I get my Vendo V-39 restored. The first batch of parts just arrived from Fun-tronics today!
So what is the consensus, did I get a good deal? Any other information that you all can share would be helpful!
As always, thanks for the input!
Tim
