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Grand Prix

 

This is my first Ebay purchase.  I bought it in May of 2002 from somebody in Chicago.  My friend Kurt (who loves his Bally Playboy more than life itself) picked it up for me.  I was very disappointed when I drove over and picked it up.

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  The cabinet was scratched pretty bad and the backglass had some spots near the bottom that I simply didn't notice when I was looking at the auction.  The wiring was a mess.   I am pretty sure the guy selling it just couldn't get it to work.  The main problem was that some idiot had put a new coil that belonged in an electronic game - it still had the diode soldered in.  Then the playfield GI was blowing fuses.  I just had to find the bad socket.  Finally, all of the stepper units were buggered up thanks to the wrong oil.

I ended up selling it to a friend before I had finished it up with the promise that I would have it working when he picked it up.   The bad news is that once I finished, I wished I had kept it.  It came out much better than I ever thought it would and the play was fast and fun.  Oh well, a deal is a deal and now I will just have to find another one!

 

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