Picked up this barn find gottlieb hot shot today with I think german coin door.Just curious if anyone knows how common was it for these pre 76 em machines to"cross the pond" versus more recent times?Stumbled across an odd one today!
Picked up this barn find gottlieb hot shot today with I think german coin door.Just curious if anyone knows how common was it for these pre 76 em machines to"cross the pond" versus more recent times?Stumbled across an odd one today!
There was a point where 80% of Gottlieb sales were export. And, due to the coin op laws of Germany, many came back by the container full in the late 70's and early 80's to restoration companies that resold them to the public.
Mainly Multiplayers to France and Germany
Single players to Italy
Spain had laws protecting their own pinball mfrs from imports.
All the old USA EM pins exported to UK were destroyed in the movie "Tommy"
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