Post #118295 by tiki1963 on Tue, Oct 5, 2004 11:26 PM

great topic!

man, i have way TOO many!! this one ended well though. i was going to school at USC in the late 80s. i used to hit the local thrift stores practically every day (tiki was plentiful back then!). one day, i was at St. Vincent De Paul's and in the 'appliance room', there was a beautiful BUCKAROO pinball machine. its the one you see in the Who's Tommy, during Pinball Wizard. its a western theme where there's really cool, dimensional animation in the backglass. every 100 points, the bucking bronco kicks the cowboy in the ass@! i couldn't believe it! to see that anywhere was cool, but at a thrift store?! it's basically one of your orgazmatron thrift store fantasies..

anyhow, as a college student, i didn't have the 300 clams they wanted for it but i was desperate! i went to a couple of friends and was able to secure the dough within an hour. of course, by the time i got back, some hipster had already bought it! bastard from hell! for years, that haunted my existence!

about six years ago, i ran across a dealer at swap meet who had a beat up pinball machine for sale. i wasn't interested, but when i told him about the Buckaroo i had missed years before, he told me about a friend who had one fully restored for sale. turns out, that the one he was selling was purchased from a thrift store at one point! man, i was gonna have that even if i had to sell my cat and turn out my mom for tricks.

well...

needless to say, i have a new cat and my mom is still workin it!! :wink:

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