Soda City Restorations - Columbia SC - Soda City Restorations

What do you offer at Soda City Restorations?

We repair or restore vintage coke machines.
We sell restored machines and through our partner offer replacement cooling systems for vintage drink machines from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Read about the process of restoration
We are located near Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia South Carolina is also known as Soda City! The nickname actually started as an abbreviation of the city name Columbia to Cola, and it caught on and stuck.
Customers ship their machines to us from all over the USA or drop them off if they are local.
Read customer reviews. See Before and After images of past projects

What Customers Say about Soda City Restorations

2 Vendo 83 Coke Machines

July 13, 2021

Ray is by far the best in restoration services. He goes above and beyond to get everything working. You can tell he has a passion for his work. He communicates with you throughout the process with updates and pictures. He asks for your feedback and permission if needing to make any modifications. He is very thorough in checking all mechanisms. His prices are so reasonable. He acknowledges the importance of restoring family heirlooms and you can tell the work is meaningful to him. You can trust that he will do an amazing job on your restoration.

Recent Posts

JFK’s Vendo 39 Restoration

September 28, 2021

The story behind the machine We got a email from a customer on Conway SC, who had a Vendo 39 he wanted to get restored.

Tips when sending us images

September 20, 2021

We get sent quite a few images, and I so I thought I would share some tips about sending them, so our future customers will

Cavalier 96 Round Top Restoration

September 7, 2021

We love restoring this machine, we have done several of them now. Here is one we just finished up last month. Use the arrows to

Should I Restore My Machine or Keep it Orginal?

August 24, 2021

Every week our customers are faced with this decisions like this: Should I keep the machine original (and just get it working again), should I restore it, or should I just sell / discard it? Most customers choose to restore, and for most cases that is best decision. But once in a while it may not be.