He was right with 9.8.

9.9 is NOS (they were rarely perfect out of the box)
Perfect 10 is fully restored and clearcoated

Well, you have now had your fun with it. Tear it down and get it shopped and CC now.

I'm finishing shopping my FT right now, and I'm replacing the standard flippers that are on it with lightnings, just for the challenge of it (at least for a while). FT is plenty brutal equipped with regular flippers, so who knows how I'm gonna like it. I'll keep the standard flippers in the bottom of the cabinet just in case.

Wow, Rocko, you and I both made MASSIVE drives over the weekend. I drove from Melbourne, FL to Dayton, OH - 1020 miles - in 16 hours. I totally and completely 100% understand your enthusiasm and pain/recovery. I was starting to see imaginary friends the last half hour of my drive.

Congrats on your FT!!!! Man, that is some serious dedication.

That's one heck of a find. The ball drop areas and the shooter lane look fantastic! Congrats!

What did ya get?

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My DeLorean back with a turbocharged VR6 engine installed, Eibach lowering springs, Spax performance adjustable shocks, Megasquirt 3.0 EFI, and Wilwood brake setup. Went in Nov 2013 and drove it home on Sunday.

All work listed was done at SEO Motorsports.

Boy, was it worth the money.

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Two drives from Denver to Hutchinson, KS for two seperate games.
One round trip from Denver to LA for another deck.
My Subaru wagon is a trooper.
Trucker meth is the best!

If you are going to change the bats, you should go with green bats and get yellow Super Bands. It will match the fish's mouth better IMO. If you are wanting to stay with the lightning flippers, you can get them in green from Europe http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=green+flipper&x=0&y=0&search_in_description=1

sheesh I would love a fish tales, but would hate that thing after 1,200 miles of driving

I love the dedication!!

Last year, a friend and I flew to Chicago, rented a U-Haul, and drove back to NC - for Police Force. He had a serious "thing" for that game. Of course, we find out when we get there, that the game is in a 3rd story converted attic/gameroom (complete with non-code narrow spiral staircase - I have NO idea how he even got it up there) and after 2 hours of nearly killing ourselves trying to get it down 3 flights of narrow stairs, we finally got it loaded in the U-Haul... only to have the truck refuse to start. Awesome!!

Next day, we get the truck swapped out, and end up with one that had a bad ECU!! At this point, the truck is loaded (with the pin and several personal belongings as he was relocating to NC) and we discover the problem as we're lurching and stuttering down Lake Shore Drive, in rush hour, with a Screw-Haul truck that won't go more than 45 mph and is bucking and lurching like a mechanical bull!! Now, keep in mind that this is the 4th of July. No service centers are open, we're pretty much stuck with this POS truck, so we decided to at least try to make the trip...

I kid you not - 2 1/2 days later, we finally make it to NC. It was brutal and we had serious doubts as to whether the truck was even going to make it thru WV. 15-20 mph the whole way thru the Blue Ridge. Nauseous, back aching and head throbbing from getting tossed around like popcorn inside a hot air popper. Fortunately, we took video of the ordeal and sent it to to VP of Customer Relations. Not only was the truck, gas, food and hotels, paid for by Screw-Haul, he even got his $1000 back for paying the movers. Which essentially, made the pinball machine FREE!

However, I would gladly kick out $1k to not go thru that ordeal EVER again. In the end, we got the pin, and it was practically free. So it was worth it, I guess... but wow man, that was one hell of a road trip! :O

looks a lot different than mine did. Is this one of the new ones?

No, this is a custom job done by SEO Motorsports. This is NOT the original engine.

nice. bet its' a lot faster than original. Wish mine would have been turbo. Would have gotten better gas mileage.

I'll say that was some trip. Good one to laugh about 20 years from now when you two get together.

Did something similar for a FT before I got mine now. Not quite the 1500 miles, but 500 and an entire day wasted because the seller was an idiot... I was in and out in 10 min, nearly punched the guy I was so pissed.

Congrats to the OP for getting this one, it's in fantastic shape. Great playing game all around.

Lookin good. I sat in the Back to the Future DeLorean on the Bonneville Salt flats when the current owner drove it out there.... not to race.

Ohhhh....I've never had that happen before.

Ya, was described as shopped and I expressed I only wanted one in nice shape as I was a collector. He said it's a collectors game and played great. Nope..rubbers never changed and cabinet unstable... Not a fun experence.

One of many! The road trips me and my buddy Jeff have taken are legendary...

We laugh about that one NOW. While playing Police Force!

It became a whole lot more fun once Screw-Haul kicked out the check and paid for everything, including the pin.

It only needs to get up to 88mph.

But the spedometer pegs at 80 on them! Just have to guess over that!

85.

Thank the government regulations for that. ALL cars had 85 max speedometers back then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law#Speedometers

Thankfully, Doc saw past this and added the digital speedometer.

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It cost like $20 an hour to drive a car for gas and wear and tear. And then you have what your time is worth. You are out, $400+ dollars just to get there and back. Yeah, that would be a nice road trip but unless you were paying a sick premium for a mint game and won't take anything less than mint, I don't know how it really works moneywise. If I was going on a road trip with my brother, it would probably be a blast even if we never picked up the pin but for me to drive that alone for not a sure thing, I kind of doubt I would. I am glad you love the game and I think it is an awesome game too but if you can put up with the drive more power to you.

Dang I thought my 600 mile drive was bad lol nice game bud

you know for the movie, the speedometer says up to 95. Which they custom made for the movie. Most of the time the speedometers broke anyway, so you you really didn't know how fast you were going except by the RPM gauge. That screwed me one time, when I came up on a 15 MPH curve and thought I was in 3rd gear and I was in 5th. Flew right off the curve into the corn field. Then my foot slipped off the break and onto the gas and jumped back over the road and into the field on the other side of the road. Was quite the experience. Car was unharmed.

Ya, I knew it was less than the 88. Now that you say it I do remember the 85 limit on all. Don't forget the bomb he traded was made with used pinball machine parts!

And I thought it was overrated. Only reason a lot of people try to give it a second chance is because it says Bally/williams on the backglass. If DE made it, it would have been mocked and you could buy them for $700.

Or maybe it's a solid game. Yup, just checked... yes it is.

I just went downstairs with my new colordmd for FT and double checked as well.....by golly , it IS a great game

I just got back from a 700 mile drive to get a FT's (could have been 1400). I'm going to highlight my trip in it, but short story is that I got tired of the high prices in AZ (there were crappy FT's selling for 3500-4500) so I did some searching on CL in a certain radius. I found a guy selling one in Utah for under 2K 100% working, no cabinet fade, no broken plastics and a pretty good playfield (out of the few I have actually seen in AZ mine is the best looking). Thanks to this thread, I pulled the trigger!

It is almost like this "hating on fish tales" has become part of you.

I wish I could have snapped a picture of you playing my beautiful example and grinning from ear to ear

That's cuz when your saying anything with the letter S in it. It makes you smile when your pronouncing something like...... "this game SuckS So Bad".

The game isn't horrible. I wouldn't want one, but it's still better than Xfiles or SF2. I just mainly give you shit about it because I know it's your favorite. So I go out of my way to say something when I know your around or going to read my post.

Used to think nothing of 1000 mile trip in a day for a pin but those days are gone, 500 mile round trip is my limit now!

Wow that is dedication to a machine. I am too lazy to ever do a road trip like that. I would have contacted a shipping company and then days later sat around on my lazy butt drinking a beer waiting for the truck to arrive. In your case the pursuit was a big part of getting the treasure. Good luck with the new FT and hope that you enjoy it for years to come.

It is the first pin that my family has gotten into, they are playing it all the time. I love the layout and flow, but feel that the goals are a little shallow for my liking. It's a great pin to show to friends though. For the price and trip, it was well worth it.

question: if so far why not just have it shipped? time is money and gas and food adds up.
opportunity cost.. 5 hours one way was my max but it was a 15k game..

also if you need a nos boat ramp or other parts lmk. got all kinds of ft parts. NOS and used.

Even my 1980 suzuki 1100 had an 80 mph speedometer on it. I recall going that fast in first gear.