I have bought a lot worse stuff & some of it was fixed up. It is getting harder & harder to find stuff like this these days! If the seller is reasonable with prices he could have a decent amount of cash out of a bunch of stuff he doesn't seem to care too much about! After you get yours someone should just go in and buy the balance of the stuff and try to save what they can.

I would have run down for that Flight 2000 if I wasn't so busy the past couple weeks. 5 years ago I would have just bought all of it.

A friend of mine contacted the seller about the "dirty stuff in the outbuildings". Talk about crazy high prices $600 for the OXO? $500 each for a couple of the other EM machines? The people who purchased those cleaner SS machines from inside got great deals. Guess the guy is truly "old school" and loves those EM's.

Anyway - I am still getting over the "sticker shock" for dirty EM's in an open building! I think he is going to have those for a long time! Glad we didn't make a two hour drive trying to make a deal on a load of machines!

Contact is possibility the worst playing pinball ever built. It is basically the same layout as Space Mission but it plays super slow because it is the super wide body playfield. I have owned two of them and they both looked like new (likely because once people played one game on it they never played it again!) I was excited when we bought our first one but once I played it I couldn't wait to get rid of it. Space Mission is a fun game but making that playfield layout bigger killed Contact.

As far as those Skee Ball Machines - 10 years ago I would have been all over them. At my age I no longer have an interest in dealing with anything that big & heavy but Skee Ball machines always sold well for us.

As far as the Space Shuttle machine - that is worth putting some time & effort into it if it isn't totally trashed. And like you said "if it is too far gone there is still a ton of great parts on it".