So not so long ago I had one heck of a week. Looking back on it I am still kind of amazed at how lucky I was in such a short period of time. It started with a kettle that wasn't so amazing, but was a good deal. I don't even have photos of it, but I picked up a Red LE for $75 and with gas it probably cost me around $90. A good find yes, but not amazing. The fact that I took about a half day away from the wife had her mildly annoyed, but things were still civil.
Then Monday night things started to get a bit wild. I am doing my usual search on Marketplace and I see my first Yellow in the wild...a Yachtsman... I message them and by some miracle they say it is mine and mark the post as SOLD minutes after to stop the messages from coming in. This was without even paying with PayPal up front. SUPER lucky, but then there is the fallout with the wife. I have to tell her I need to make a 6+ hour round trip Tuesday night to get this bad boy because I can't get someone else to grab it quickly. I tell her "Babe, the yellows are super rare...I might never see one in the wild again and if I do it will be years. I gotta get it." She rolls her eyes and tells me to get it. I jokingly tell a few other WKC members "Knowing my luck I will find another Yellow in a week and she will call me a liar" Here is a bit of an update on this one as it currently is. If you are interested in this story and restore you can find it here:
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/first-vintage-find-is-a-yachtsman!/msg424218/#msg424218So I spend the next several days essentially kissing up to the wife to make up for the fact that I have been away from home two days out of the week already. Friday afternoon rolls around and I am scrolling through marketplace (like an addict after the Yachtsman) and I find a speckled offset SJ. Again this one is far away and I am freaking out because Tuesday didn't exactly go over well. I quickly ask the seller if they would ship and send them funds via PayPal before the bidding war begins. They agree and for $26 and a long wait I now have a beautiful speckled offset SJ. No story or post on this one yet, but soon.
After three grills in less than a week I am really trying to keep the wife happy. I take her kayaking on Saturday, give her a nice lunch date, and have a relaxing mid afternoon at home. We head to the parents house and are just relaxing when I find another bombshell and this one is listed as FREE. Another yellow...THE GOURMET. I message the seller within minutes of posting it and they marked it as SOLD right away. I freak out (as is my wife cause I am panicking over a grill multiple times this week) and start trying to work out pick up with a relative. I paid them $35 bucks to make it a priority and the next day they happily reported that it had been secured. I will post more about this beauty later as well.
Lastly, while this wasn't my pick up, during this SAME WEEK I am cruising on Marketplace late at night and find what looked to be like a cheap parts kettle. I click on it and flip through the pictures and can just barely at the top you can see "DEMO". I message
@PotsieWeber immediately and tell him to go for it and he bravely went after it. You can read more here:http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/how-i-acquired-the-pimply-assed-old-grill-who-thinks-she-is-a-star/
Well that wraps it up for me. I hope I have another streak to report back with sooner rather than later.