CS-80C
Cavalier Corporation
Year Acquired: 2006
This machine started as a bad e-bay deal. The compressor didn't work, even though the seller claimed it did. It was cheaper for me to have the cooling system replaced than it was to return the machine. I sent the cooling system to Global Compressors and Eric did a wonderful job on it. I decided to go ahead and restore the rest of the machine at the same time. The machine started off with the paint scheme that you see to the left. It them got transformed in to a Pepsi machine and then back to a Coke machine, with a bad 80s' paint and sticker job. I had a local auto body shop transform it back to the original paint job that it had in the 60's. Almost all of the drinks in the machine are in returnable (reused) bottles. Every summer I trade in a :truckload of cases to Twig's and Seymour Beverages in Wisconsin, along with Winona Coca-Cola in Minnesota.
Useful Cavalier CS-80C links:
Soda-Machines.Com page on the CS-80C.
GlassBottleSoda.Org has information on where to find soda in glass bottles.
Soda-Machines.com has
a large database of soda machines and has a useful discussion board.
BevNet
discussion forum. Find out about the latest soda releases
and where to find some hard-to-find brands.
More general links on the Links page. |
