On 9/4 I bought a black "open box" patent pending MBH.
No box, so in the back of my mind I was like "riiiiiight".
But, nobody would clean it so well for what I paid for it. Plus, after cleaning it, they basically would have had to age it to the dust & dirt on it to make it look as if its been sitting somewhere out of the box for quite a long time (like in a garage/shed/warehouse/basement). When I looked, none of the dust, dirt or discoloration seems to be any ash or anything from a cook. I'll have to double check for sure, but the cooking grate even seemed a bit heavier duty. (I'm going to weigh it & try measuring the diameter if I can figure out what I did with my calipers). Lastly, the pictures on the ad were just so bad & the price was so cheap, it was apparent the seller had no idea.
I went to get it because of the bit of the back of a wheel I saw in one of the pics. When I removed the legs & the triangle, they seemed so light I assumed the wheels were transitional plastic ones. I then flicked my fingernail against it because I thought they looked like pics of the steel wheels, but I decided it must be plastic (but I was still happy because oh, the new shiny shape they were in under the dust anyway).
Later, I started looking at pics on WKC to see if I could find any transitional plastic wheels that were molded to look like the steel wheels from 62 on. I could not find any pics of any such thing, which made me wonder.
So, today, I took a magnet to the back of my Avalanche (where it's been sitting since I bought it). They are steel. WOOT!
So, in addition to my happy score, my confession is that I kind of stupidly thought a pair of basically old stock steel wheels MUST be plastic AND that I've had this basically new old stock patent pending black MBH w/steel wheels in the back of my Chevy Avalanche for 11 days & counting.
