Kimble restores Coca-Cola machines for Coke 600 winners

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This is kinda awesome. I never knew they did this for the winner of the 600. I think I want one of these.

Drenched in Coca-Cola, sweat and confetti after winning the Coca-Cola 600 on May 29, 2016, Martin Truex Jr. noticed a large, red-and-white Coca-Cola vending machine entering Charlotte Motor Speedway's winner's circle. Truex initially thought it made for a nice photo-op, but he could barely contain his excitement when he learned that the decades-old vending machine was his to keep.

"That's nice to hear," Terry Kimble said from his office in Grayson, Georgia, nearly a year later. "I never know what the drivers think of them. I don't really get to meet them. I know that we work hard, though."

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Read the rest here http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2017/story/_/id/19351999/kimble-restores-coca-cola-machines-coke-600-winners.

Apologies to the jayski Challenged.
 
So Mt. Dew sponsored Kasey has 3 or these
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
This is kinda awesome. I never knew they did this for the winner of the 600. I think I want one of these.

Drenched in Coca-Cola, sweat and confetti after winning the Coca-Cola 600 on May 29, 2016, Martin Truex Jr. noticed a large, red-and-white Coca-Cola vending machine entering Charlotte Motor Speedway's winner's circle. Truex initially thought it made for a nice photo-op, but he could barely contain his excitement when he learned that the decades-old vending machine was his to keep.

"That's nice to hear," Terry Kimble said from his office in Grayson, Georgia, nearly a year later. "I never know what the drivers think of them. I don't really get to meet them. I know that we work hard, though."

i


Read the rest here http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2017/story/_/id/19351999/kimble-restores-coca-cola-machines-coke-600-winners.

Apologies to the jayski Challenged.
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I have put many a dime in one just like that years ago, way cool item to win! :punkrocke
 
TexasRaceLady said:
When I was a whole lot younger, a machine just like that one stood in the basement of my church.
Cost --- one whole nickel.
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There was another old Coke machine at the barbershop in Bowling Green Fla when I was little, it was flat topped with a big aluminum three eared knob you twisted and then opened a small spring loaded door and pulled the coke out through the top, this one was a Nickel price machine. The other unique thing was the wood crate for the empty bottle was in the machine. You would grab the handle on front of the machine and it opened to allow access to the crate that was nestled in the door, good memories for sure.
Times were a lot less complicated then, or, so it seems.
 
Awesome in deed, wouldnt mind having one myself .
 
The coke machine at my school was mechanical, had a slot for Credit/Debit cards, and a panel for Apple Pay


This thing is ancient
 
I gotta get a seat with a Cup team, cause hot dog I want one of those machines! Very cool.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
When I was a whole lot younger, a machine just like that one stood in the basement of my church.
Cost --- one whole nickel.
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I can remember riding my bicycle out in the country (which I did a lot in those days) on REALLY hot summer afternoons and finding gas stations in the middle of nowhere with one of those machines (just like this one) that gave you an ice cold (and I mean ICE COLD) Coke for a nickle. Just stick the bottle neck into the opener on the front of the machine and pop the top. There was absolutely nothing like it and there still isn't to this day. Plastic bottles and cans just don't cut it. Some of the stores near me still sell Coke in glass bottles and I get some whenever I can.

I also remember a summer trip I made through Mexico with an uncle when I was a teen. We came upon a gas station in the middle of nowhere and it had one of those machines. It must have been at least 100 degrees and there was an old guy in a chair in front of the station who walked over and got a Coke from it. Instead of using the opener on the machine, he stuck the neck of the bottle in his mouth and pulled the top off with his teeth.
 
sdj said:
There was another old Coke machine at the barbershop in Bowling Green Fla when I was little, it was flat topped with a big aluminum three eared knob you twisted and then opened a small spring loaded door and pulled the coke out through the top, this one was a Nickel price machine. The other unique thing was the wood crate for the empty bottle was in the machine. You would grab the handle on front of the machine and it opened to allow access to the crate that was nestled in the door, good memories for sure.
Times were a lot less complicated then, or, so it seems.
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kymartin6 said:
I can remember all of 'em....... except what sdj said about the wood crate..........
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If any of these machines happened to still be in use, I can imagine a younger person coming away from one empty handed upon realizing that there isn't an app available that will allow them to pay for the stuff with their phone. o_O
 
pjmolo said:
If any of these machines happened to still be in use, I can imagine a younger person coming away from one empty handed upon realizing that there isn't an app available that will allow them to pay for the stuff with their phone. o_O
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Or it's too labor intensive. :cool:
 
R Clarence said:
The Esso station on the corner had Lance snacks.

Dump a bag of peanuts into a bottle of Coke 'n you were good to go.
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I still do this from time to time. I get the Cokes in glass bottles in the Mexican food isle at the grocery store, because it is sweetened with cane sugar not high fructose corn syrup like canned drinks are, and drink a little and pour the peanuts in, good stuff on occasion.
 
R Clarence said:
The Esso station on the corner had Lance snacks.

Dump a bag of peanuts into a bottle of Coke 'n you were good to go.
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Lance vs Planters was a big rivalry with the kids down here. Sorta like the cowboy wars. Roy Rogers vs Gene Autry vs Hopalong Cassidy vs Lash Larue etc etc
 
Johali said:
Lance vs Planters was a big rivalry with the kids down here. Sorta like the cowboy wars. Roy Rogers vs Gene Autry vs Hopalong Cassidy vs Lash Larue etc etc
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Heh, heh.........

'N me drivin' thru Suffolk 'n Wakefield to get ta Waverly ta do cowboy stuff..
 
pjmolo said:
If any of these machines happened to still be in use, I can imagine a younger person coming away from one empty handed upon realizing that there isn't an app available that will allow them to pay for the stuff with their phone. o_O
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I realize that bashing young people is in vogue here but the vast majority of vending machines still require you to insert a dollar or change.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
KB says 'No!'
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That's a damn shame what he did to that guitar. Being a guitar player, that wouldn't be played but once or twice and then kept stored. I'm lucky if I can afford a nice guitar every ten years, and even then I don't have the luxury of storing it. Mine get wear and tear, beat and banged, but I can't play on a piece of junk.
 
The Nature Boy said:
I realize that bashing young people is in vogue here but the vast majority of vending machines still require you to insert a dollar or change.
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What the heck do modern kids know? Sodas were just BETTER back in the day. You bought 'em in real stores owned by REAL MEN who pumped your gas and cleaned your windshield too! You opened 'em with tools... none of this pop top stuff kids today pass off as the real thing.

A proper soda bottle back in the day was a beautiful thing, heavy in your hand, and they were all different from each other! The slab-sided abominations we have today... jeez they all look alike without the logos on the can.

Lay a real coke bottle down and roll it. What do you see? REAL STAGGER! These slab sided abominations we have today ain't got no stagger! Sodas were better back then, before all the changes, they just were better... :sarcasm:
 
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