Beautiful.

The Rally games are great, especially Play Boy & Comics. I know of only 2 out here in Australia, one Play Boy & one Comics.

I would love to own either one.

Can I ask, is the backglass actually "glass" or a plexi on both Playboy & Comics?

That's what I was thinking with that question as plexi takes the risk out of shipping.

Great to see Rally Fliptronic represented on the forum.

Sadly, I haven't got one at the moment, but would love to have! (If anyone's got one for sale, particularly West Club, I'd be interested)
In the late 1960's and early 1970's I used to have several Rally machines, including Playboy, West Club, Schuss and Flower's Child.

They weren't well liked by operators as they found them tricky and expensive to maintain. I devised several mods to make them more reliable, including relay circuitry to prevent problems with the tracks on the nixie tube boards burning-out.

I've attached copies of the only two photographs I took at the time.

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I've no longer got the details, but the main mod was to use the narrow pad (used when that particular tube went from 9 to 0) on the Nixie score mini-selector board to pull-in a relay, which then incremented the next decade. Originally, that pad drove the next decade directly, taking much more current and eventually burning-out.

Some other mods centred around the micro-switches on the pops, which had a habit of sticking and locking-on the coil; can't remember what I did, though.

On Flower's Child, the star rollovers in the right-hand channel powered powerful magnets to propel the ball up the field. I used those rollovers to drive power transistors instead, which made the thing more reliable.

These Rally machines were extremely unreliable on site and operators hated them. Many machines were unceremoniously thrown away, which was my gain as I collected them for zero cost. Unfortunately, I had limited space and was able to take only about a dozen, leaving many behind! More unfortunately, I got rid of the lot in the 1970's!!!

Many years ago, when I lived in England, I owned both a Playboy and West Club.

I marveled at how 'before their time' they were. Not only the Nixie tubes but the electronic sounds, whenever a target or bumper was hit.

It is cool to see that Stern has simulated the Nixie tubes on the match sequence, on Batman 66.

Ah. Fond memories!

So happy to find this club as I recently took the plunge, and waiting for my Rally machines to ship in from France. The style and beauty of these Rally machines is incredible, and I can't wait to have them here to enjoy and share.

I am getting a Playboy, a Rally Girl, and a Happy Papeete. Very excited!

I also would be interested as well as to where you got it & the shipping cost/logistics?

I would love a Play Boy

Shipping is expensive and a little bit complicated. I mitigated that by buying a total of 7 machines. Shipping worked out to be about $500 per machine, with crating an additional $200 or so per machine. Worth it if the machines arrive here safely. I did it before about 5 years ago when I shipped in a Spooky and Zankor from France, so I had a little experience with the process.