Fast and fun classic EM with a very satisfying spinner shot. The head is removable for easy transport. If this is your first EM, be careful but firm when removing the jones plug in the backbox. They can break if your impatient.
Alex

I have one and it is one of the faster EM pins I have played. Plenty of skill shots with the four drop targets, two spinners and two knokout holes that collect the bonus during play. Set the pitch higher for better gameplay. IMO

And I'll second Alex's comment on the backbox plug.

BTW, I just watched your video shopping out that World Cup polishing the ramps with the blowtorch. Never knew that trick!

Looks nice, congrats! I like the theme, looks like a fun game.

Wow that's a nice one....I own one and enjoy it as my only EM....gotta have at least one!! It can be a very fast moving pin. I sometimes load mine with a powerball to kick it up a few notches

Looking forward to the video.

I always give away the good stuff lol....

Now I'm jealous of that backglass! Mine's a bit flaked, but my playfield and cabinet still look good. I've yet to own a machine where the backglass, playfield and cabinet are all in good shape.

I'm a big fan of cabinet art on the 70s games. Grand Prix is no exception!

One thing I did need to adjust on mine was the angle of the kick-out holes. If they're not set right, they'll send the ball right down the center drain.

Congrats on the purchase, BR!!!

Nice game BR

My right kick out hole was doing the same thing to me RTB......it was sending the ball SDTM everytime it kicked it out. A slight adjustment to kicker and it sends it to left flipper 100%.....sweetness.

Nice EM B_R! So i'm going to ask the million dollar question............

Is this machine going to get the B_R Cointaker LED treatment and make the EM purest piss there pants or stay pure?

I kid! I kid!

Fun game the spinner shots are awesome but you will loose the ball a lot if you try to trap it on the flips! Looks to be in really nice shape except for the faded red on the Grand Prix in the bg but they all have that to some extent.

That's a Very nice looking EM pin!

I have a Grand Prix and love it. It is fast playing and fun. I love the clunky chimes that Williams used. I assume they were copying Gott. My chimes are real loud! Good to see an EM getting some love.

Hey B.R.

Fun Game with lots to do. Williams made a lot of fun 2-4 player games in the mid 70's IMHO, not so much single players.

Played it a few times as a kid in different spots. You could find them everywhere back in the day.

Very popular machine with 10,554 units made back in 1976 so that tells you something.

I think it will be a fun competition game for you and the family.

Enjoy!

Ken

I just picked up two Faces, the Spanish take on Grand Prix. My girlfriend loved GP, but wasn't so into race cars. We went to PAPA in August and she laid her hands upon Faces and that was it, she had to have it. One popped up on CL here & then I nabbed another one for "parts" while visiting my folks in Detroit. The two together should make for a nice copy. I'm excited to have this layout in my collection. Such a fast EM!

Faces photo from IPDB (Mark Steinman)

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Grand Prix pic from IPDB (Ron Tyler)

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Faces has a 3rd flipper, Grand Prix doesn't, other than that very similar, and great games!!

Personally, I'd still love to grab a Grand Prix. I'd love to get my hands on one of the few SS versions made and sit it next to Faces.

IPDB Photo (Dave Vnuk)

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3rd flipper and that neat relay controlled left gate that allows to you to hit the spinner loop repeatedly. Very cool.

What city do you think they had in mind for the BG?
Tokyo ?

I believe the city depicted is supposed to be Monaco? The Monaco Grand Prix.
Alex

Was there a ss version of Grand Prix? That backglass is different and has electronic displays.

There was apparently a few solid state prototypes produced.
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=grand+prix&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#5647

Alex

You dont see many EMs LEDed

You should experiment when you have time and see what it looks like.

Looks nice. Im sure it looks alot different in person and the pics dont do i t justice.

Never owned or heard of Go-Pro. Have you used their products before?

I had the first generation GoPro years ago & didn't like it... but I'm sure they've come a long way since then.
B_R, if your primary purpose for buying a helmet camera is for filming "hands free" pinball videos you might want to consider the ContourHD instead. They have a headband mount (like I used at your garage when I bought Big Guns) and you can switch your vid to a vertical orientation with a twist of the lense housing. Nice features imo.
http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home

Nice! Great theme. Backglass art obviously inspired by the Monaco Grand Prix. Adding this one to my "wish" list.

I want to find camera glasses
like in a pair of sunglasses - spy store stuff

B_R I have a GoPro Hero 2 and it for sure looks awesome outdoors! I have some cool vids from jetski rides and such, but....... Indoors it is not much of a camera. Especially in low light conditions. I'll take a video tonight of my DM with LEDs and put it up on Youtube. I haven't filmed any pins, but I filmed my MAME cab one time and I wasn't to happy. We might be in for a surprise though! I'll flim Stargate and Dr Dude also since they don't have LED's and see if that makes a difference.

The videos are uploading now. I'll post the links when there ready! I took the raw video off the camera and uploaded it directly to youtube. I think your current camera does a better job than the go pro. Watch the vids and see what you think.

Shooting a pinball machine with video is tough because of the intensity and strobe of some of the lights. Probably more than the camera body, it would be lens selection and filters that might help, in addition to a camera body that has some manual control adjustments available. Having not tried to shoot a pin before, I can't talk from direct experience, but working in video for a living, I would assume that some carefully dialed shutter settings in conjunction with a manual exposure and focus, with an older, softer lens might be pretty decent for capturing a pinball in at least most of its visual glory.

For Go Pro, however, what I thought would be cool is if you could rig one inside the p/f above the flippers for a ground level view as a B cam. Cutting between that and an A cam like Lumix Gh2 or 5D/7D could produce quite a nice effect.

I might try to experiment some with my gear at the house and see what I can come up with. None of my pins are blinged out, but I'd be interested in testing with LEDs too since they're a brighter source. If you ever want to do some video experiments on one of the LEDed pins, let me know B_R -- would be an interesting camera test.