First, some back story.
Man, this really is a disease or mental condition. I'm a long time gasser and I've just recently come over to the charcoal world. In the last year or so, I've accumulated a 22 OTS, a Performer, a SJS, and just recently, 2 JJs. All are black save for the Performer, which is a darkish green. My gassers are either black or SS. With that, and seeing the WKC banner image on every page, I decided I needed some color in my family. Also, all of my kettles are less than 10 years old, so I wanted to bring some maturity in as well.
Anyways, was cruising CL and saw this:
Don't know why, but I immediately fell for this one. It had some rough spots, I thought the price was a bit steep and it was a little bit outside how far I'd normally travel for CL deals (just over 2 hours away).
I was torn and almost passed on it but then I saw this:
and this:
I then read the actual ad and saw this:
I also have a charcoal chimney, corn n tater ring in box and a Shish kabob rack in box
Being a complete N00b to the Kettle scene, bells and whistles didn't go off, rather, I thought "Hmmm, that might change things a bit. Perhaps it is worth the drive after all". So, I did a bit of research here, found some amazing threads (of which there are plenty of here) and quickly fired off an email to the seller.
Since it was 5am in the morning, I didn't expect an immediate reply. I also kind of figured that I was probably the 400th person to email about this listing. They day drug on and I still hadn't received any reply. Finally, around 4:30 I finally got an email from the guy asking what time I would like to come over that evening. I did the quick math and told him that I had some things to wrap up and that the earliest I could be there was 7:30. I didn't want to let on that I was getting into my car and driving 140 miles to make this purchase.
Anyways, long story short, 5 1/2 hours later (bad traffic), here's what I made it back with.
The Corn'n Tator ring and the Shish Kebab set should both clean up nicely as I rubbed some spots on both and whatever it is that's on there came right off. Not so sure about the charcoal fences and the tool holder.
As for the grill itself, I have no idea what it's called (model?). After finding and looking over
@MartyG's vent code photos on Flickr, it looks like it was made between '71-'75?
Anyways, time to go back through and read up on restoring Kettles as this one needs some loving.
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