My lucky squaretop find!

O.k., so you know that every single day I read all of your posts and wish I were you guys finding all those fun machines for dirt cheap. I just knew that it would never happen to me.

Well, I just stumbled onto a little luck.

Now granted, I am jumping the gun here because I haven't even seen it yet, but I am still happy.

A guy that does odd jobs for me from time to time came by my house today and when he saw my V-216MD in the house, he said, "Hey look at that. My roomate has a pop machine that we had in our kitchen for awhile but it has that ugly woodgrain sticker look on it, so I finally talked him into getting it out of the house into storage."

Figuring it was just an ugly early 1980s can machine with big buttons, I pried further.

I said, "Huh, about that machine, do cans drop down or does it have a glass door that you open and pull out a bottle?"

He said, "Oh it has the glass door and we kept beer bottles in it. It works well, it's in good shape and is nice, for a machine, I just didn't like having one in the house."

He said that he couldn't remember if it was Coke or Pepsi.

Knowing that the machine annoyed him, I asked him if they ever wanted to get rid of it. His eyes lit up with glee and he immediately whipped out his cell phone and called his roomate. I walked away to give him some privacy.

When I came back a minute later, he said, "Yup, he's willing to sell it. Just make an offer."

That is when I about gave up. I figured they'd use it as a chance to try to make big bucks (which I do not have). I said that I haven't seen it yet and have no idea what they are hoping for. He then cut me off mid-sentence and said, "How about $50?" He'd go for that and then I can finally have space to park my car in the garage again!"

Well I just about fell over. I pretended to be somewhat interested and arranged to come see it in a few days.

Now, granted it's not a fancy roundtop or even an all red square corner, (being that it has the ugly woodgain decal), but to get a glass door machine in good condition for $50! Heck, I spend $50 on socks at Target! Besides, someday I'll remove the woodgrain and paint it red or blue.

I can't wait to see it. If it is Pepsi I'll fix it up and sell it. If it's Coke, I'll just have to wait and see if I want to keep it or sell it.

I know it's not the greatest find here, but I thought I'd never stumble across a working machine for $50 that is less than a mile from me (so no shipping).

I'm smiling all day today. '<img

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