Honey, I'm hoooome !!! Dealing with busted water line on porch right now, but thanks to Schwaggs for resurectting this thread. Have lots to discuss !! Love my I500 !!

Pacer, your modesty amazes me !! Graham Rahal bought your restore ??!! Pm sent !

I was wondering about this too. Mine says 1.0.

Thank you. So it doesnt look like much difference.

From Allen Shope at Treasure Cove. Treasurecove.net, I believe. The man is an artist.

Man yer I500 is sweeeet DavidC. Waiting on something on mine to break before I start restore. So far, so good. Of course, now that I've posted this; I'm sure it won't turn on....

Cue the choir-

HALLELUJAH !!!!!

Thank you PPS !!!!!

Schwaggs, did you do a little dance when you found out ?
I did.

Say Carl,...how bout those lessons ?

Did you ever know you were my hero ?
And everything I would like to be...

Dude. That is so bad ass. You really are my fracking hero.

The LED's in that look absolutely bad ass. Recipe ?

Hey guys....finally decided to make the led switch. As a total noob to led's, was hoping for some advice here. With all the choices ( ghosting, non-ghosting, flicker, no top) ...I've always been a little overwhelmed. Should I color match inserts, or just go all classic white, or frosted white,...jeez...I dont really know where to start.

Hey Tyson, you gonna post some pics of yer Mike Chestnut Indy ? Would love to see what that baby looks like.
No Cliffy here either. I guess I've been super lucky with no common issues that most have.

I like to hit on the young gals when their dudes pass out.
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Added over 8 years ago: Edit : just a joke. Actually have no idea who these girls are....but they were sweethearts !

Good times Mike ! Had a great weekend partying with ya brougham. Come on up for the Brickyard !

Hey gang! Old problem that was fixed for awhile when I replaced the target optos, has started reoccurring. When I hit the right flipper it scores flashing target points, even lights up the opto. Something touching something maybe? Gettin ready to get this ole girl restored but I'd like to track this down 1st. Thank you!

Went away for awhile, now it's back. Hitting the rt flipper scores 1m on stand-ups. Any ideas on where to start?

"He might not even know there's a replacement target board available from Great Lakes Modular Paul!"
--Turbo Bobby

Hey guys, my I500 went down before Expo. Not booting, no lights, no nothing. I took the mpu board to Expo and of course, that board is good. I don't do board work, but I'd like to be able to pinpoint where the failure is. I'm *guessing* it's gotta be the main power driver board. Anybody have time to tell me where to start? I have the manual, a multimeter, and pretty much no clue.
This is the first "major" issue in 6 years of owning, so I'm REALLY new to this. And extremely grateful this sumbitch has been such a damn tank.
I was looking up the power driver board for sale, seems pretty unobtanium. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

I do have a FT, so I guess I could swap boards to narrow down, but FT just got board work done and I'm not too keen on swapping stuff in and out.
Seems like when I start doing shit like that, something else breaks. Am I just being dumb? Should I swap them and see? I REALLY am nervous about that....

Our big Indianapolis Fountain Square Classic tourney is this Sat, so if nothing else, I can take my board up to be repaired.
Just hoping it might be a power supply or something relatively simple on board that I can replace in a few days.

Hey buddy thanks for yer response. ACNC got here yesterday so I've been all up in that. I still have to put mpu back in bb but after I do that I will take some pics of the red leds that are/aren't on. Mpu is good. Had it tested,at Expo.
Thanks again.

Oh hot damn....
SUPERFLY!

9 outta 10 times I would hate this led job but for some reason I like this one. Probably cause it's not orange.

I'm gonna hate these comments in the morning. The sling leds look like shit I get it. Different.

I would be in, but wondering if it would be easily removed? I'm not a mod guy at all, but I def dig both of yours Tantrum.
The checkered flag side art was a mod from Treasure Cove. Not sure of current status with them.

I remember somebody copying them and Allen (RIP) from TC got really pissed and I think he served them with a cease and desist. I could be wrong, this was years ago. But pretty sure that's what happened.

Since he passed, I'm guessing someone has ripped off his design again. When I think of rip off shitheels, Retro Refurbs is the first to come to mind.

Hey. Fuck you and your mods fuckpants.

Well, then I apologize. I thought you were making a condescending joke towards me. It wouldn't be totally untrue, but we don't know each other. I guess I totally took that the wrong way. Sorry man. Looks like I'm Mr. Tantrum tonight.

I just want to know if I have to completely adhere that to the race track. As in, is it permanent? I don't ever plan on selling mine, but we all know how that goes. And how some anal buyers don't want mods of any sort on a machine.
That's all I was wondering.

Haha. Yes.
And again, I apologize.
Fucked up part is I haven't even started drinking yet.

Been listenin to this a lot the last week for some reason. One of my favorite tracks about racing. Pardon my ot but I've never lived through a month of May with no Indy 500.

Racing In the Street

Wow. 15 years here. That might be....
A
NEW
TRACK
RECORD

Seriously, that's impressive. Bet you've seen a lot of shit here in the last 15 years. I really don't think I've seen a member with that many years under his/her belt.
I tip my hat to you sir.

For the record, I'm interested in both mods. Wondering if maybe free shipping for buyers of both?

Race day with no race. Strange times, strange times.
One of my favorite parts of the race was the beginning when Jim Nabors sang "Back Home Again in Indiana".
In memoriam

One of my good pinball buddies from LA has been to a couple 500's with me. We had a freakin blast. Pinball-is-great remember this?
YOUNGGG GIRL....GET OUTTA MY MIND...
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I've got Cliffys on everything but I500. Read too many stories like that, so I'm good.

DAMN Tantrum you really went above and beyond for this man! Will DEF be ordering and THANK YOU for all your hard work man wow!

Apologies Mr. Tantrum I kinda forgot about this thread until today. If you can pm your PayPal info I'll be buying. I'm totally not a mod guy but these look effin GREAT!
Thanks for all your hard work dude.