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kos71

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The last road trip
« on: July 02, 2015, 11:48:20 AM »
This road trip is the last road trip that make an end to a story of almost 1 year .

We went back with the guys from the association to the warehouses and bad news :twisted: someone broke into it and stole only the dedicated cab .

We were as pissed as the operator as they broke also the wooden door and his warehouse will need a serious repair .

I was really disapointed and shocked to see that some collectors can be like this .

So we had to improvised as we already have made 500 km with a 20m3 truck .

So we decided to take the space tactics that was in the basement of the house .



it was really difficult to extract it since it is heavy and the basement as a step of about 70 cm .
The other problem was the fact that the hole in the wall was smaller than the cab width except on the upper area .
So we had to lift the cab horizontally and above our head to make it passed trhough the wall .



As they were here nothing interessant we left for an other warehouse . It start to be hot as it is 14:00.

We will have to go through this to extract the cab yeah !!


sorry if I do not took as much pictures as I wanted but moving in this place is a pain in the ass as you may understand .

there we loaded some generic cocktail tables and 2 valadon automation  cabinet .

For the one that may ask themself what is Valadon automation ; they made this game .



We also loaded an enduro racer in bad shape and an Atari championship  


We took also for the end a Taito Crown periscope . This one is damm Heavy .



Yesterday I started to clean the cabs as they were really dirty .













this cab look really cool but I did not found much about it on the internet .

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/cperiscope.htm

a nice video of it  working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQbUY9AXh8&feature=player_embedded

that's all folks


« Last Edit: July 02, 2015, 05:35:39 PM by kos71 »

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Re: The last road trip
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 12:14:03 PM »
Periscope is looking damn cool  8)  :spaceace:


What games have been stolen in the first warehouse? We could keep eyes open if they show up for sale :)

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Re: The last road trip
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 12:45:18 PM »
Wow, those cleaned up really well!!
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Re: The last road trip
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2015, 12:52:42 PM »
well from what I remember .

-A sega secret base
- A missile X
- A space tactics as they were 2 cabs there 1 in  the warehouse and the one we took in the basement .
- some old pinball .
- a uniwars cabinet
a few jukebox .

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Re: The last road trip
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2015, 07:50:23 PM »


It is unbelievable how similar the place looks to the place I clear for the last year now.
I did not waste a second to clear dedicated stuff so not a single one was taken from me. The operator was a bit pissed that I worked hours around and rearranged everything in there but I needed to get sure that I get all the important stuff first.

Meanwhile other collectors found the place but they only found what I had left.....there are some DLX-cabinets left but they are paid already, so they stay for me...Operation accomplished.
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