FT: High-end Congo restoration for High-end Paragon restoration

wow! great job. nice looking Congo .

If you change your mind, or if my $ can intervene to get you your Paragon, LMK.

WOW, what a beauty. That looks like the top end for a Congo.
I do not have a Paragon, but...out of curiosity...

Who did all the work on it? Where are you located? If you did have a cash price, what would it be?

I'd trade a very nice Shadow if interested. Mine has wire forms at plating and gun at plating. New ramps etc.., Very nice

This congo is spectacular. One of my favorite pins.

That is great! My rough guess was 5k, which is pretty cool that I was close in my own head.

Good luck in your hunt. I am guessing if you do sell it outright you should not have much issue getting what you have into it , out.

I would pay that for this. Its a one of a kind.

Great looking pin. Wish I had a paragon for you.

Mk

I have seen this Congo, it indeed looks & plays amazing. The art work was custom(as you can tell) and looks great! Snaroff is a good guy to deal with all of his pins are pristine he is very picky I wish he was selling that STTNG Good Luck!

People need to stop with this High end stuff ! The game is different than other congos that is for sure . High end ? Not even close .

Jim

This is usually where the train goes off the tracks on some boards

High end means its better than when it left the factory. Every ounce of the unit is clean and beyond mint. Corners so sharp as to cut your fingers off etc. Dirt not even within 50 feet of the game etc.

Your game while nice is not what i would call high end either. There is coil wrappers that dont match some are faded some are wrinkled. Midway sticker wrinkled lock down latch chipped up etc. I could go on but i am not gonna nit pick it. Its a very nice machine. But when you throw out high end some people go right to Hutchinson quality.

Best of luck with the trade/sale Steve.

Get ready to get beat over the head with his mm/mb/afm resto's. i don't think Jim does high end restores on b listers. That is not a knock on Congo by any means.

There may have been a nicer way to say it.

Like that see!

I do agree tho, unique yes high end...probably not

I know , what can I say? It was not intended as a dig towards the op but more of a educational public service announcement .

Jim

It came off as a dig.

Just being honest... think of it as a MCCune service announcement

Sorry, I will try harder next time .

auto correct on my phone my bad. Nobody said the cab art was not awesome, think you are like taking it the wrong way. OH well GLWS

No worries, now just show us some pretty restoration pictures. Have you restored a Congo> I would love to see more Congo love pictures. (maybe start a new thread so we can stop with the thread jacking> sorry snaroff).

I don't want make this thread about me !

The op ask to see some of what I think a restoration is, here you go,small sample .

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Another restored MM...in the words of Rudy "Big deal!"

I agree!

My Congo is just a stock low play game , Big deal .

Jim

Call it whatever you want. The fact of the matter is that this is an absolutely beautiful Congo. It's easily the nicest one I've seen by far. Good luck with the sale!

You are dead on..... Only a handful of guys can approach what Chris does....Brian has been doing nice work for a long time, but a lot of people don't know who he is.

The reason you see a lot of guys showing the same games over and over is because all the parts are available to swap out. Not that there isn't skill in swapping parts (I am not understimating that in the least), but the incredible skills are with the guys that will fab a part from scratch, airbrush dithered artwork, etc...

Bump for one of the nicer Congos I have seen... Not usually a fan of powdercoating/mods, etc.... but this one is really cool looking....

Oh, quit your bickering, all o' y'all! I've seen Jim's restos--they are on par with Bryan Kelly, Chad Keller and Chris Hutchins. Brian Dendis (Prowlerman) has sold me more thn one of his restorations. Generally, they're good, but he does almost exclusively "B" titles. In my experience, he's excellent with clearcoat--among the best, actually--adequate with touchup (not on par with the expensive guys), and doesn't even touch the inside of the cab or underside of the pf. Very creative with mods.

I will second that this is by far the nicest Congo I have heard of or seen! I also think if you were to sell, that 4.7 would be a steal for a buyer looking for a super sweet congo.

Agreed. It might well be the highest-end Congo in existence, assuming HEP hasn't done one (he's done a few B-titles). And the art on the cab looks amazing. I made an offer to buy this Congo. Yours was higher. I've had two Congos before. Tired of both. Would like one again someday--but that's a lot of money for this title.

I'm interested in this Congo

The thing is, Congo is an awesome Williams title, it just doesn't have the hype or the rabid fans that titles like MM, AFM, TOTAN, TAF or TZ have. I actually think just having the colored art pushes you in the right direction of having a high end Congo. The fact that it works 100%, is 95-99% restored and has some pretty nice powdercoated armor on it make it the most high-end Congo I have ever seen. It seems that if anybody around pin circles tries to give a 'B' title special attention, or actually tries to move a 'B' title into their personal 'A' list, it really causes a lot of waves with the old pin guard. I personally think this A and B list stuff is, if not total nonsense, at least very subjective. The same 20-30 guys have been talking highly about the same 10-15 games for the last 15-20 years. Try to bring up or hype a game not on that list and those people (or their followers) either laugh, get pissed or roll their eyes and try to ignore you. I have played both MM and TZ and have owned TOTAN and I didn't really like any of them. Picked up a Congo and was hooked from day one. I really think Congo was like one of the books that was left out of the bible by mistake. Nice machine, good luck with your trade.

Typical right away someone has to start ripping on a guys machine becouse everyone thinks a high end restoration has to have been done my chris.
There are plenty of restores that do good work as well, friggen people need to quit ripping on everyone elses work unless they can show they can do it better themselves.
Dam a poor guys trys to trade or sell a nice machine and people have to pick apart his description.

It is great to see Congo get this sort of treatment it is such a fun pin. Thanks for posting the link to the pictures and good luck with your trade.

I think it looks wonderful and Id love to own such an example.

That trim looks awesome! I love it!

I wasn't ripping oh him just stating what i think a H.E is. It is the nicest Congo i have ever seen for sure. My honest opinion here man...put this Gem on Ebay and let the people go nuts for it.

Has the Volcano been re worked or show any damage?

Frankly, your terse comment really doesn't provide much info/education. All it really does is give folks the impression you hold the sacred definition of what a high-end restoration is

You are right , I should have provided a little info on why I don't think it is High End, like Scotch tape holding the tags on or a missing flipper opto spring or wrong coil in the gorilla and other reasons that tell me you shouldn't have used the term High End,as it means something else, then the pin for sale in this thread.

High end means near perfect and very very clean no part untouched. You could have stated " Custom Restoration" and no one would have busted your balls !

Sorry for being honest .

Since you requested Congo pictures of my original untouched Congo, here they are . Not perfect but nice unmolested example!

Jim

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now THAT is the nicest congo i've ever seen. we need a drooling smiley face emoticon!

Looks great

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Now, take Jim's Congo, pimp it out like the one Brian did, and i'd be all over it at that price.

I agree, just don't do it publicly on a pinball forum as it might mislead unsuspecting new people !

Jim