I’m sorry but I am not taking any restoration work, nor offering advice etc. Effective Feb 2024 The only work I am taking is installing new cooling systems in your machine. Email me if you need this at [email protected]. Here is a list of service providers related to vintage soda […]
Ray Hewitt
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Unfortunately there is not one paint color that was universally used for all vintage Coke Machines. Different brand brands made for Coke may have used slightly different reds. If you go a local PPG or Sherwin William Automotive Paint Store and ask for Coke Red, they will have about 10 […]
We get asked a lot about loading this model, mostly because of the weighed drum can be confusing to use at first. There are a few different methods to load it with bottles, but this is our favorite way to explain it. https://youtu.be/BrilCF-WMJY
Before Images We recently finished this Cavalier 51 machine. These are a beautiful 1950s machine that uses a mechanical coin mechansim and vending advance system. Inside the bottles are loaded into an ammo belt like chain. Each crank of the handle advances the belt to to the next bottle, lining […]
There are some differences between the Canadian Vendo 44 and the USA version of the 44 machines. I have not figured them all out yet, but I thought I would pass some information along today, and show a recent restoration of one we did for a nice customer in Quebec. […]
We just finished this Vendo 56 Full restoration. Here are some before and after images. Before Images After the Restoration
A highlight video of a Vendo 44 full restoration, as a featured on the refurbished series of INSIDER
We recently completed the restoration of this Westinhouse Jr Coke Cooler. This was a full restoration, we brought it down to the bare metal and then restored it back inside and out. This is truely a piece of Americana. Before Images After the restoration Images
Our customer from Alabama shipped this Vendo 110 to us to restore. The story was this was his father's machine, and at some point, his dad removed all the interior parts, bottle stack, shelves, etc, and used the machine to cool meat.
We are starting a full restore on a Vendo 39 for a customer. We just got the machine in, and I thought we would share what we found inside. Somewhere in the past, someone had rigged it up to vend cans, which can normally be tricky on this model. We will be putting it all back to original during the restoration, but this idea was simple and rather clever.