4 new in my Family

[new in town]

Top Gun, Yellow Cab and Rambo arived at my home over the past 5 days.

Top Gun will go near my Tom Cat Pachislo from Arby. Plays very well and you get to shoot at STUFF with the chance button.

Rambo is one NOISY shoot Em Up Machine with allot of interaction with the Chance button and a Very Deep ball tray which serves as both upper and lower. Lots of lights on this machine along with a large video inventory.

Yellow Cab? What can I say But WOW ! ! !.

The girls are beautiful and their smiles absorb you.

My last new family member weighs in at 300 pounds. A 1993 Williams Indiana Jones Pin Ball Machine about to be in route to me from upstate New York.

I won it last night on E-BAY and spoke to the gentleman tonight who I purchased it from. His name is Ron Keno. Does the last name sound familiar?

If any of you ever watch the Antique Road Show there are two Twin brothers on it. The Keno Brothers Leslie and Leigh. Leslie, works for Sotheby's in New York as a senior specialist and director of business development for the American furniture department. Leigh is the owner of American Antiques on Madison Avenue. Ron is their father.

We chatted on the phone for almost an hour. Myself being a former New Yorker, we had a very present conversations.

The front bed room is now empty of it's bed room Stuff and many Pachinkos, Pachislo's and one Pinball is going to be squeezed in.

This is a write up on the Keno Brothers and the life of antiquing. :

http://www.smartmoney.com/mymoney/in...story=20010518

[Erniesan]

Wow congrats on the Indy pin! I just got my on E-bay last month! It's truly one of the best pinballs ever. Did you get one of the ones that went for $2800 recently? I'd really like to hear what condition you get it in. I ended up getting mine from Allen Shoppe and it cost a lot, but the machine is in perfect condition and his service has been oustanding. I'm now on a quest to get one of the apron decals signed by Harrison Ford and/or Spielberg/Lucas to hopefully boost the machines value to offset the premium price I paid for it

[new in town]

Yes it was from an auction last night :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0%3D%26fvi%3D1

Ron had a Pinball Tech go through the machine before it was put up for auction. There is some sun fading on the left hand side of the cabinet. but the playing field is in excellent shape as is the top cabinet panel and dot matrix. It also does have the coin box installed but the famous "Lost Plastic" is not installed. My sister just found one for hers and we are both looking for one to put into mine. It goes cross table at the back of the playing field behind the ball ramp the leads to the tilting table.

I am contacting North American Van Lines tomorrow to set up shipping it down here. They have a "Blanket Wrap" service. Ron sent another machine out west and was told that they took very good care of it and the purchaser had no issues with it when it arrived.

I'll check to see if it has the updated CPU chips and am looking into the propeller mod for the white Plane and the Super Sub Woofer mod to make it Rock and Roll.

I only have room for one Pin and after Playing my sisters out in Arizona last year I was hooked on this one. My Indy Pachinko Is going to go right next to it and the Indy wall display above them.

I'm looking right now for a Pin Ball Forum for these to join. If I find one I hope it will be at least 1/2 the quality that PachiTalk is. It would be hard to beat this world

[Chris]

Some very nice additions you have here

I hope the pinball arrives safely.

[gottac]

Awesome!!

[Erniesan]

The one mod you will probably really NEED for the Indy is the mode start bounce out reducer. Pinball Heaven in the UK sell a custom made one, but you can also do it yourself.

I probably would have had 3 or 4 games goto the Wizard multi-ball mode by now if it weren't for the constant bounce outs =(

[new in town]

Got an E-mail from Ron Today. :

Hi Brian, Sat am
Very much enjoyed pics of your Game Room !
Pachinkos have really evolved ..Thanks !
North American has called and we are planning a pickup on about Tues or Wed. Care and preparation is more important than hurry. I'm able now to have my pinball friend Ray,(Professional) here to package it tomorrow. (Sun.)
We will do all that you and I discussed and have it completely Packaged,Legs, Head folded ,protected, Balls out etc and ready for pickup. ..North Amer. has a lift on their trucks and as far as I've seen, handle things with care.
I'm sure you'll be comfortable with this.
Good talking with you the other day.
Best! Ron



If anyone is thinking about purchasing an Indy Pin here is the Williams Video on it and a link to other videos.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mT-WrbpW5Js

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