Here in the Twin Cities area (Mpls/St. Paul, MN) we have a GREAT group of WKC members. Right now there are 8 of us, and our main goal is help each other out. Whether it's sharing our pics of our weekend cooks, assisting each other with kettle restos, or scanning local CL ads for anything the group is looking for, it seems like we always have something interesting to discuss.
About a month ago one of the members of our group sent out a text message saying, "if anybody has time, you need to jump on this!" Included was a CL ad for a gasser. Normally I pass up any gasser, but I had the day off so I sent a message to the seller saying I would take the grill not knowing what I was getting into.
Long story short, an hour later I had the trailer hooked up and was on the way for the 40 minute drive to get there.
Here's what I was after:
Keep in mind at this point I had no idea what this thing was. I'd heard about the "Summit" line of grills, but had no market value info in my head, so just before leaving I Google searched it. Turns out a Summit S-650 is a discontinued model that retailed at HD for $2,300! I literally shook like a leaf the entire 40 minute drive to this lady's house, figuring the grill would be snapped up well before I got there.
When I arrived, the grill was still there, and the lady's son was just disconnecting the propane-tank. "That doesn't come with the grill" he says. I think I muttered, "That's fine" as I handed him the money, still tremoring from the reality of this. The lady was moving from her town house and the son was about to ship off to the Marines a couple weeks later. He and I chatted a bit about his future, and then he helped me load it on the trailer. It was all the two of us could do to lift this beast up onto the trailer.
Here it is ready for the ride home:
Once it got home, I didn't have a Marine to help unload it, so we took it apart as it needed a cleaning anyway:
Here she is all cleaned up:
After a good couple hours of cleaning, we fired it up to burn off any remaining cleaning soap or cooking remains:
Then moved it to the normal grilling spot:
We threw a pork tenderloin and some corn on it. Although the tenderloin looks like a hotdog, it's actually 4.5lbs!
Mmmmm....
After that we grilled up some peaches that were soaked in butter and butterscotch schnapps:
Although we're still learning how to do kettle-worthy cooks on a gasser, this thing is incredible. This entire story would not have happened had it not been for the generous assistance of one of our local members.
Yet another reason for all us WKC'ers to meet up with other local collectors/enthusiasts and help each other in our hobby.
GRILL ON!!!!!
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