Some 8 years ago I bought a 1955 GTB SOUTHERN BELLE body.. no head, just the body. I shipped it over from US with a couple of other games I bought. Since then, its been sitting on its back awaiting a head for it. Ive often wondered why I bought the bloody thing but in all honesty, the condition of this 1955 beauty was so nice that it was hard to turn down.
Roll on 8 years and a casual conversation with a pal in US reveals that he had just donated a SB head to Michael Schiess at the Pacific pinball Museum for spares. A bit of negotiation on our parts and Michael was happy to let the head go if it was to complete a game. I had the whole thing wrapped and sent UPS by Wade Kraus for US$70.. the head went into Tony ( ANT68) container and ended up here in Brisbane. The head remained boxed as I really have no room to start a project until the shed gets extended, but Dan ( whos head it was originally) emailed me to ask how the marrying of two machines went. Doesn't take much to get me enthused about doing something, so I rearranged the shed so I could get this machine on some legs - albeit steel and not timber ( where are those longer bolts?) and attached the head. This is what I really like about EM games.. theres not a lot that can go wrong - you can turn on a machine and failing a locked on coil, there is nothing to blow up so experiments like plugging it in just to see what would happen are always possible!
Heres the body.. lovely condition.
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And heres the head in its box still..
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Head attached to body... im sure you all know where this is going?
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OK.. so all is plugged in, I cant see any issues that maybe life threatening and so I turn on and see what happens?
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I bloody love EMs!!!!