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It's winter time and not a lot going on here on the forum.  I was looking back through my pictures and found some grills I'd acquired over the past couple of years.  I got the idea to share acquisition pictures and stories even though they're been shared here before.  I figure there's probably new members here that would like to see and hear about past acquisitions without having to search for old threads.  I'll start....

Nothing fancy, but a couple of favorites in a two for one deal.  1973 Weathered Warrior and a DO code Smokey Joe, both for $25.  My son picked these up for me in Birmingham, AL in 2020.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220112/714ba2c76c825baa46c6072e4ee1f759.jpg)
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It is fun to look back at old finds and restores, I will have to post a few !

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Patent pending steel wheel cado.   I was going to pick up a beat up easterner only to find out the seller had this one, too.  I made an offer and came home with both!   Has great green overspray in the bowl.   Found in Cincinnati, OH, summer 2018.  Fun road trip with my daughter.   The seller had recently picked it up at an estate sale, which was the original owner. 


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Summer 2019.   It was Thursday afternoon and I was checking out Craigslist.  I found this gem!  The problem was it was in Holland, Michigan, which is 4 hours north.  It had been listed for 5 days, which was astonishing.  To my great fortune, I had already taken Friday off and contacted the seller successfully.   I remember getting on the road at 5 am.  A birth year Fairway was good motivation to get up early.   It was caddywampus and the owner had been using it with the ash pan inside the kettle.  Part of the ash pan is melted into a glob of aluminum.  I got a free, partially used bag of matchlite.   This is one of my favorite finds and worth the 8 hour round trip.   Not my longest kettle trip but close. 


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Kettle Karma (Aug 2018):  I reached out to Troy to give his sequoia a ride to it's new home. I did my best to keep this mission, of the Norcal Weber Express, a secret from Chef ( @inkaddictedchef1). 6 1/2 hours later I dropped it off.  At the time I wished that he was home when I delivered.  Now, I think it all worked out just fine.   In the end, I think Chef does an excellent job telling the story.  Just search "surprise delivery".  Fast forward about a month to Sept 2018.  4 four round trip for an Ambassador.

Awesome stories, thanks for playing along......

2019 attic find.....1975 Statesman.  It had been used maybe once or twice, I did no cleanup on it and it was my first MBH and first vintage kettle.  Hooked me into this hobby but good.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220113/e0d5b213bd744abce00af2fbbd1847f0.jpg)
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August 2021.  $20 fb marketplace find locally.  73-74 Warrior.  Didn't need it but could not pass the price and resto opportunity.  Quite rough and very well used when found.  Needed new bottom vents,  so I swapped off a black donor kettle.  Refinished the handle and repainted the wheels.   Worst ash pan I've ever cleaned up!   It was restored in October and I gave it to my father in law as an early Christmas present.   He lives in southern Indiana and is a widow.   We have been visiting him once a month to have dinner and I usually cook on my Jumbo Joe.   Now he has his first Weber ever and I have a cool cooker when we visit!


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Six days after the 2018 WKC Chicago meet-up, 8/17/18, shortly after 10pm: a FB Marketplace ad for a black 18 MBH (and umbrella and lawn chairs) caught my eye, but it was missing the triangle, so I flipped by it. Went back a few minutes later, and looked again... hmmm... that is a VERY black grill for an MBH... no "weathered warrior" grey... what the hell, I'll message the seller. He got back to me a few minutes later... yes, he'd hold it, but only if I could be there by 930am the next day. I was the first to message him, but he'd already gotten a couple more inquiries about it.  It was only $25, so why the hell not.  When he pulled the cover off of it the next day, I couldn't believe it.  3 1/2 years later, I still can't believe it! 

Got the umbrella, too 8)

**first two pics are from the FB MP ad**

Score of a lifetime!


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Great thread Greg!  There's some really nice photos and reminders of kettles past. Plus  a few finds I don't remember much about. Lol. I guess I'm getting old.
I'll have to dig up some old stories and pics of a few of my grills.


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Quote from: bladz on January 14, 2022, 09:06:15 AM
Great thread Greg!  There's some really nice photos and reminders of kettles past. Plus  a few finds I don't remember much about. Lol. I guess I'm getting old.
I'll have to dig up some old stories and pics of a few of my grills.


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Thanks!  My hopes are to bring back some veteran members and see some of their awesome finds from the past.  It's fun to share here where most appreciate an old kettle grill.

@bamakettles totally agree

Weber Fireplace - who knows what year these are.  Facebook Marketplace find for a reasonable amount just south of Birmingham, AL about a 4 hour round trip drive for me.  Well used and a bit rusty on the hardware, it cleaned up nicely though.  Some love with a wire wheel and drill on the legs and riser, all nuts bolts and washers replaced with stainless and stainless steel handles from Eric and Dennis with new Zavod wood.  It sits proudly in the Weber room, heck I may even fire it up after my fence project is complete.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220114/39bd814339b32927575fe8fe44d6110b.jpg)
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Here's a cool grill with a great grillfella behind it.

September 1, 2019 I get a text from a friend who owns a lake home in Northern WI.  It's a pic of a PP Gourmet and he wanted to know if I was interested in it.  Hell yeah I am!

He said the grill is at a Lions Club ball diamond and park in the village his place is at in northern Wisconsin
They brought his granddaughter to the park to play on the outdoor play sets and she spied it on the backside of a pavilion.  There is no one at the park, and he tells me he will have to talk to one of the Lion members to see if it's available.  Fast forward a few days and he goes to the Lions Club building and asks  about the grill. The secretary says it's been sitting there all summer and she has no idea who's it is.  She said she will ask around and find out who the owner is.  I'm figuring this thing is long gone before I hear anything more about it.
September 28 2019,  I'm at home and get a text from my friend that he's going to stop over.  He swings in my driveway with the Gourmet in his truck. 
The Lions secretary said no one claimed it, so my friend asked if he could make a donation to the Lions Club, they agreed and the next thing you know the grill was his. 
We worked out a deal, and this great Gourmet is now part of my collection. 
Great friends and family are responsible for many of the grills and neat stories that make up my collection.




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FBM find about two years ago.  Lady was using it in her back yard as a planter and garden tool cart.  Definitely Woodard, and I think the bowl is Weber from research I've done.  Bowl has one hole in the bottom center and there was no lid.  I had the cart, bowl, rectangular tray and wheels sandblasted and powder coated locally.  Added a cutting board and use it as a drink station.  My Jumbo Joe also fits in it and I've used it for a few cooks in this setup.  I got the Jumbo Joe on the same trip over to look at this one for $20.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220118/ed964bb863481cc1903f5a0ee878ce4b.jpg)
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L code one touch.   This one was a Craigslist find in January 2019 in Cicero, Illinois.   A bit of road trip.  Not an mbh, but a vintage green, which isn't easy to find.   Took my kids on this kettle trip and visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (our favorite in the city).   Ate Lou Malnatis for dinner, picked up the kettle, and headed home to Indy.  Wonderful day with my kids!   I think of it every time I use it. 

It's in very good condition.  The handles are not original but period correct originals.  Gave it new wheels to brighten it and new one touch to make it fully functional again. 


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'69 Pat Pending Statesman and '73 Easterner two for one eBay find from Minnesota, just south of the Canadian border.  They cleaned up nicely and I upgraded the cooking and charcoal grates with Killa Grilla SS flip up SNS style.  Repainted the white walls on the 18" and only had to clean the metal wheels on the 22".  The Statesman is my oldest in my collection.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220127/91d5862543665512f1d9e79f95c0af14.jpg)
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Marketplace find N Code Red Head an hour south of me.  Seller said it belonged to an elderly lady that kept it in her dusty garage and had recently passed.  I guess it was an estate find for the seller.  She was totally interested in cookware, not so much grills.  She said she couldn't believe how many inquiries she had, but I was luckily first in line.  It was dirty for sure, but maybe some of the dust and dirt protected it over the years.  I gave it a good cleaning and put some fun wheels on it.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220216/0a8a9e2d9610c2b1fd8cd8038dc7b570.jpg)
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That is a super nice looking grill.

Quote from: BigEasy on February 18, 2022, 05:31:20 AM
That is a super nice looking grill.

Thank you sir, one of my favorites.


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So back in 2020, (when my addiction began) I would constantly scan marketplace looking for deals.
The main goal was to find something cool. But I also kept an eye out for deals on easy flips.

I found this DD code OTP for $20. I was the first to message the seller, so she said it was mine.
She said they's leave it front of the garage and I could leave the cash in the mailbox. This was on a Friday, and I said I would come the next day.

Saturday morning she messaged me and asked if forgot to leave the cash. It took a bit of convincing before she finally believed that I did not pick it up!
So she blasts out a post in her neighborhood FB page condemning the thief, saying how she saved this grill for a young Marine.
Where she got this, I have no idea. I'm in my mid-50's and was in the Army.

A couple of hours pass and she calls and excitedly tells me the grill has been returned.
When I picked it up her husband was out working in the garage.
I told him that in case any of the neighbors were watching, tell them the young Marine's father picked it up.

I did clean it up really well, but can't sell it with a story like that.

'84 Brownie Ebay find from California in 2020.  Cleaned up nicely, replaced the triangle, sweeps, ash pan and customized the wheels.  I've since replaced the handles since I was pretty new to this then and stained the originals too dark.  They're now on a CGA that looks pretty good with them.  Hope these pics don't go sideways, this was before I learned to orient my phone properly for pictures.  Last pic includes my '78 which was also an Ebay find from Arizona in the same timeframe.

One of my best "In the Wild" CL finds (2018).

62 Ambassador

Link to the thread how I found and restored it:  http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/index.php?topic=35113.0

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One of my best "In the Wild" CL finds (2018).

62 Ambassador

Link to the thread how I found and restored it:  http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/index.php?topic=35113.0

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Wow. Just beautiful


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Quote from: Cellar2ful on April 07, 2022, 12:24:18 PM
One of my best "In the Wild" CL finds (2018).

62 Ambassador

Link to the thread how I found and restored it:  http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/index.php?topic=35113.0

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Exactly the type of stories I was hoping to find.  Inspirational!

Gorgeous kettle.....

Here is one that I found in 2012 or so at a garage sale.  I have not seen one like it before, except for the legs which are obviously DIY.

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Here is one that I found in 2012 or so at a garage sale.  I have not seen one like it before, except for the legs which are obviously DIY.

That's pretty interesting

Not vintage but still a pretty good weekend haul. 


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The story of Diablo,  26" Flattop saved from the scrap yard.

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Quote from: Cellar2ful on May 22, 2022, 06:30:44 AM
The story of Diablo,  26" Flattop saved from the scrap yard.

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/index.php?topic=34980.0

I really love rereading these old posts.  Belated congratulations on this old Fleetwood Jim, and thank you for sharing again!