Quoted from ryanbrooks:

I hate to poopoo on someone, but MoparJoe has dug himself a deep hole. His Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan story has made this game nearly valueless. I truly believe if the OP had told the true story, it would’ve actually added value to this game. Provenance, when it can be proven, is amazing. Though the pics could be conceiving, this game doesn’t appear to have ever been on route. There’s probably no such thing as a HUO High Speed. This example is probably the closest thing to HUO/non routed as we’ll ever see. I think it sat in the warehouse of one of my contemporaries for the past 35 years. While I do think it’s been played, the plays are minimal. Certainly 10,000 (if not thousands more) less then the next lowest total plays HS.
Here’s something to think about when the OP said Willy shipped the original owner a replacement and told them to keep this damaged example:
In 1986, HS was a commodity. It earned. It REALLY earned! Williams couldn’t build them fast enough. It was one of the pieces of coin-op equipment where operators paid distributors not to sell it to their competitors, or paid a premium on top of the sale price to get it first. This practice was most common with arcades such as MsPac, STF2, MK etc, but it sometimes happened with pins. HS was on the short list of the pins (along with T2 and TAF.) So Williams wouldn’t have just given the guy a new game and said keep the old one. The old one would’ve gone back to the distributor and sold at a slight (~$250) discount, or just had the invoice adjusted to reflect the cost of the damage. No operator in 1986 would’ve cared about the cabinet damage. They would’ve bought the HS that’s $250 less all day long. We’re tight and greedy and all about the initial cash grab and continued cash flow rather than resale value. Perfect example of this is Atari Star Wars. I can remember taking them to the dump when I was a kid because dad couldn’t keep them running and they made nothing. He couldn’t sell them for anywhere close to what they cost (I want to say they were like $3900, where as a HS was probably around $1600), so they got destroyed.
In hindsight, now we should watch ebay for either the same story from the OP, or for something closer to the real truth as I’ve suggested and speculated to.
I love HS. I always have. It was probably more important to Williams than any other game outside of Addams or Space Shuttle, because of the cash flow that kept the line moving and cash flow positive. I would have so much more enjoyed a post of the real story of this game and how Joe got it rather than his MacBeth-like vaulting ambition and the subsequent Terrell Owens Shit Show which has ensured. And for what it’s worth, I love the shit shows. They help take the edge off the daily grind as much as any controlled substance.

Quoted from PinRob:

I bought this machine from a dying old man, that had no reason to lie to me about any of the stuff he had, and EVERY single thing he said matched up perfectly with what I saw/found, with no discrepancies.” MoparJoe