This lovely High Speed came from the historic Starbase Arcade http://www.starbasearcade.com/ in San Rafael, CA. Unfortunately SBA's doors closed last summer. My friend knows the owner well, and lined me up with first shot at owning this historic High Speed when it came up. It was originally bought 2 weeks after it hit the market in 1986.
With a CPR playfield in my "shop", when I initially went to review it, I just took one look at the cabinet and backglass, and said, "Yes."
I picked it up last night. 'Silver Ball' in Novato is rebuilding the MPU and I'll get a chance to turn it on next week.
Hopefully, I'll have a few parts cleaned and polished before it gets powered on.
Once again, I'm very grateful to have good friends, good luck, and the good fortune to live in an area where nice machines pop every now and then...
This time around, I'm going to take off running without a plan. I'll take nightly notes on progress, including what hour I'm on, and I'll keep a set of open questions that I have in the following post, along with my shopping list, and total expenses beyond the base cost of the pin. I'm hoping to keep my upgrade shopping list to <$1700.
Enjoy the story and pics that follow...
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playfield swap begin: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/high-speed-restoration/page/5#post-2132083
-mof