PEPSI VMC 88 Machine Restoration
This Pepsi VMC 88 was repainted, but customer would like a total restoration, the insides are complete but are original and need restoration. The Machine will be completely torn down, stripped, insides redone with some plating, powder coating and polishing, the coin mech restored, compressor restored and body will be worked on , then repainted in a two tone pepsi color scheme of blue, with white top and red letters.
10/29/09: Machine arrived and initial photos taken.. I haven't started taking it apart yet, figured I'd get the other machines apart first. will probably get into this one this next week or so..
11/23/09: This is the last of the 4 that I'm working on , have had some time to take the door off and send in parts for chrome is all, going to start removing all parts in next few days.. one photo shows door off and had to get at the bottle bezel to send in for chrome.. so this is as far as this one has gotten ... total tear down by this weekend for sure. I've included some photos of the door tear down so far ... cabinet is this weekend.
11/28/09: Tore down the rest of the machine this weekend, vending rack and tub removed as well as all old insulation. machine was in fairly good condition on the inside, with little rust... no holes which is good. Cabinet and door sent off for sandblasting and other parts are being prepped, cleaned and set to go for reinstallation.
12/4/09: Body and door was at Sandblaster,body guy and prepped for paint.. body had been repainted 2 times before as well as quite a bit of body work, we had to rework the body to straighten out old body work as was done poorley. New body work was professionall done and looks great. Pictures show it in primer , ready for paint..
12/9/09: Picked up the Door and Body from paint today and they look great, Note that customer wanted to do in the Two toned pepsi color theme , which is a different color blue than the early solid color light blue they used, we color matched to the correct Two tone Blue paint used by the company and painted it the correct color for a two toned machine. Blue bottom and white top... letters will be handpainted Red.
12/21/09: Lettering was hand painted by a professional sign painter, Turned out great! ,, final assembly has begun on machine as we where waiting on some parts to be completed.... once this one is done ,they will all be ready to go..
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