Thanks Loaf, its good to know someone who is a pinball fan. As much fun as I had playing pinball in arcades, I'm nostalgic. When I was a teen, the family would drive 90 minutes to this fishhouse in Niceville Fla, Great food and they had 3 old 60's machines that were just great to play for nickels and dimes.
One time I loaned this machine to a buddy at work, We were going about 40mph with it in the back of the truck. The wind pressure was to much and the back ripped out of the rotten press wood and slammed against the playing table. WAM! then the 7 lb steel back caught lift and went frisbee'in like a cruise missile toward the cars behind us . I about had a heart attack. We stopped , no one died, Drove further and some chickens flew poorly across the road. Oh shiiiii! Wam, Chicken dinner. Another heart attack. I had to use ten 4 inch wood screws to hold the back on the machine now. I left the machine in his basement for like 6 months, Finally, He said get this out of my basement.
So we are taking the machine home, going up hwy 27. I have the pinball back down on the playing table and I've duct taped it real good,. The metal back never fit right after the first near disaster.. The tape gave out, Vrooom. as 7lbs of square metal death metal again went flying. Behind us are 2 dump trucks and a 18 wheeler. The metal back was flattened like road kill.. We scrape it off the road and place the metal back inside the cab behind the seat, laughing all the way back to the triangle/ SC
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