2007 I had got a little extra cash happen upon me for the first time ever. I always told myself in he early 90s that when I got older I'd get a TZ "when I was rich" I had hung out/worked in arcades for a long time so I was sort of familiar with pins but never buying them and had no idea what a price would even be. So I started searching for what a fair price would be, which let me to pinside and I got a good plan.
So I hit the criagslist the kids were using at the time and looked for a TZ, and eventually found one some 30 minutes away from me. Went and checked it out, hadn't been around pins in a few+ years, guy selling it was a QUITE weirdo (those were the days , didn't really help me much so my friend and I sort of winged it as best we could to get it home. I think it was $3500 then, which was probably over priced but I didn't care, once in a lifetime purchase.

It was probably the most uneventful sale for years to come to be honest. So then I did all the standardish things that a n00b does these days. I took it apart for no reason, had trouble putting it back together of course, plenty of confused days looking at notes I wrote myself the night before when drunk, spent a bunch of mods dressing it up like a French whore because it was fun and it's the only one I have. Then I realized if I dind't spend stupid monies, I could get another machine. Then another, then save up more, then out of room, then buy a bigger house to get more pins...and that's were we are today.

Being in a small garage scared thinking I was going to die, heading into the mansion of a magician to buy a PM, being in a total burned down squatters shithole in Detroit looking at a Sinbad that you had to open the head with a stick....all that shit came later.

EDIT: Ah yes...It's still the TZ I have today and I wouldn't even trade it with a better one...first in, last out.

Did he add least throw in some rear legs on the next purchase?