New A Code!!

[RottiGuy]

When I first joined WKC 4 years ago or so I like everyone else, starting looking for kettles online all over North America! Being in Canada vintage kettles are very hard to find! One of the first kettles I ever found was a NOS Red A code in Winnipeg Manitoba sitting in a shed for 38 yrs disasmbled. Being new to the club, I asked Mike aka MR.HOSS and MacEggs how to go about getting this kettle!! Both said that it's always a nice gesture to offer it up first to a member if he or she is local.So they gave me his name and I contacted him to see if he would like to have it which he did and went and picked it up and told me it was never assembled and in new condition with no blemishes on it, he also told me if he ever got rid of it, I had first dibs on it, which I thought was a nice gesture!! So last fall, Jean-Clude contacts me and says look, I can't bring myself to cook on this new kettle and if I wanted it he would trade me for something that he wanted. So I began looking for what he wanted, which I thought would be easy to find and in the shape he wanted it in, and it turned out to more difficult than I thought!! So after looking for months I just said to him I had one he would really like and we made the deal!! The kettle arrived last week in pristine condition and I was just ecstatic about the condition it is for being 42 years old!! I won't say what I traded,  I will let Jean-Clude decide that, but both of us are really happy about it!! Here are a few pics, it's not assembled yet, the original front leg was missing when Jean-Clude picked it up!!

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[Lilyankee]

Beautiful grill and great story!


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[Mr.CPHo]

Oh wow that is a really really nice looking kettle!  Congratulations

[michaelmilitello]

Weber kettle time machine!   Awesome story.


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[JEBIV]

Love the story, and the grill !! congrats

[bamakettles]

Very nice, your patience paid off!  Congrats to you on that beauty.


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[smokeyjoe]

Grate story and awesome kettle


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[bladz]

Glad it made its way to you Mike. That's one beautiful grill!  Congrats!


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[Thundermtn]

Oh man, that's grate looking!

[Raindog]

Wow! Sweet. I don't know if I could cook on it either.

[Fat Tony]

Grate story! Grate score!
I sold a never been cooked on, A code Texan that would've paired nice with your beautiful kettle.

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[Vwbuggin64]

Holy crap! What a nice museum piece! 


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[Bertl]

Sh... this is a dreamkettle, good it made it to you Mike!

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[SixZeroFour]

What a great find congrats!

[cigarman20]

Great story and kettle!


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