A Great Way to Preserve The Vintage Look As an option to a partial restoration, many customers choose to have us clean the exterior of the machine and add 2 -3 coats of automotive clear. I wanted to explain this process a bit more today for those who may […]
Partial Restorations
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We had a customer give us a Cavalier 55 in order to get working again. We put in a new cooling system and fixed a few things on it, like the wiring and the coin mech. But over all the machine was not in bad condition. He decided not […]
Somestimes the memory is most important. That was the case with this Vendo H56 Pepsi machine. My customers grandfather had it for years. My customer remembered it well worn, lots of patina. When he got it, he wanted to get it working, but leave the patina as it was, just […]
Our customer from SC came across this old 1950s Vendo 216. I believe he told me someone was discarding it, and he jumped in an made an offer to keep it alive. Well, when we got the machine, it was apparent that over the years someone has tried rig the […]
I wanted to highlight a project we did last year for a customer on a Glasco slider 50 cooler box. These boxes are common and this is a solution for getting them up and running again. This cooler was missing the slider insert completely, and the customer wanted to use […]
Partial Restoration & Repair Costs Many of our customers only need repairs or a partial restoration. They usually like the old patina, or the machine is in good shape. After all, “they are only original once”. A partial restoration can include anything from a new cooling system, repairs to the […]
This was a fun one! The customer inherited a 1940s Vendo 83. It was dirty, but yet very cool. He said they were going to leave by the road when he stepped in to rescue it for his office. Step one, get in the machine. He did not have a […]