Orange and Black Speckled Weber Bros 18 (pic heavy)

[Hogsy]

I just spent the last half hour perving on that Kettle....and I still can't get over it's beauty
Brilliant job on getting her back up and running. Have you got grates for it yet?

[demosthenes9]

I can give you a little info on that Kettle.....










It's the most amazingly  bad assed farking  Kettle that I have ever seen!     If I had a wife, I'd offer to trade her for it.

Congrats dude!   Awesome job on the restore too!

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[harris92]

Cool grill Art!  Very nice.  I own the kettle with the cooper porcelain undercoating.  Im glad you choose that color.

[WNC]

Just wow...


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[WNC]

Cool grill Art!  Very nice.  I own the kettle with the cooper porcelain undercoating.  Im glad you choose that color.

Have we seen that one?


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[Cellar2ful]

That is one bad ass orange peel finish! 

[harris92]

I bought my first Wood Dale several years ago from a retired fellow by the name of Don. Don was an accountant and one of his clients in the 1950s and early 1960s was Weber Brothers Metal Works. Don spent quite a bit of time at the facility.

Don told me in the early years of kettle producing there was a lot of experimenting (porcelain coated legs, ash pans,  utility pans, triangles, unique custom lids and bowls, multi color combos to the "splatter grills").  At the time this info was passed to me, many people discounted it as a "foggy memory". However, over the past few years everything he told me has been proven true.

You mentioned you only bought a lid and a bowl. I do know that Weber made a very limited number of "splatter grill" Travelers. I think its at least a 75% chance this was originally THE ELUSIVE CUSTOM
TRAVELER...


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[randy]

Two things
1) that kettle is unbelievable
2) Harris posted twice


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[Bob BQ]

Ho.ly.Shit.  Mother of Dragons.

[Schaefd2]

I can give you a little info on that kettle
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Dont hold out on us!


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[addicted-to-smoke]

... I'm glad you choose that color.

He had a CHOICE?

[brewtownbeatdown]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is an awesome piece of kettle history.  Grate find. 


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[demosthenes9]

I can give you a little info on that kettle
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Dont hold out on us!


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That was an attempt at humor.  Obviously, I'm not very adept at it.

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[cumminfourya]

Holy shit, that thing is BEAUTIFUL!!!


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[Shoestringshop]

+1 what everyone said! Holy sh~t that is awesome! If you need a place to store it... EVER I can help. Lol great job.