Actually one thing this guy doesn't realize about Us "young'ins" and "tools" is that we come from a more technologically advanced generation, where with a small batch of simple accesses yields untold fortunes in the way of publicly available data. Such as phone numbers, addresses, hell even old school pictures . All available if you know how to search the interwebz...

If the OP really is Shelby Haynes then his house has an assessed value of 95k. So if a pin cost 8% of the total cost of your home? Yeah i'd say that makes it difficult to own one

LOL, I can change an engine without schmuckipedia

Dan he said this "I have played pinball regularly since 1978. Whether it was at the local amusement park, after the junior bowling league, or after school at the arcade. I started collecting pinball machines in 1998 after graduating college and getting settled."

If that's the case that means he was playing pinball in the womb. I'm 33 and wasn't alive in 78