A spectacular, all-original 1971 Bally Expressway accompanied me home from Pinfest this evening. So when I got onto the PA Expressway en route from Allentown to southern New Jersey, an Expressway was on an Expressway. There, I said it.

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Thanks to Pinball-Pat for parting with one of my all time favorites. 2nd time owning this classic game and this time it's staying. Lots of parts included to turn this into a gem. Also grabbed a nice Golden Tee complete on the same trip. Sore back today but totally worth it!!

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Took a few years and a lot of help, but she is home. Another great 2 baller!

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Long day Saturday capped off with a better Bally Dixieland zipper flipper single player game. Started the day on the road at 5am for a four hour drive to the VFW show. Played a crap load of games then stopped back for a quick visit with my parents. Arrived in Columbus at 11 pm to do the pickup and finally home and unloaded by 2:20 am.

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Scored this Bally escape from the lost world today. Third pin this week!

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12.50 at Barnes and noble clearance. It says it has the fun of pinball. Lol
I can confirm there is a pinball in the package.

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Tron Pro. First pin I’ve transported in our Tesla Model X. I drove 1160 miles in 30 hours. Ended up needing to remove the backbox.

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Thank God!!! It's been on there for years I think.

My nephew wants to retheme it to the butt pirates of the caribbean and add a fidget spinner in the middle

Got this "Super Pac-Man" themed VERTIGO from shakenbake and am having a blast with the various FX3 tables and retro goodness!

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His work matching the "spinner" with the Super Pac character is truly inspired!

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Picked up Escape from Lost World Project and 2 Supersonics at Pinfest. My daughter was happy I was coming home with more machines!

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I'm going to be doing some flip-flopping and bump saving tonight

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Sweet, I'm working on my second Flip Flop now. I had one earlier this year from a fellow pinhead but he wanted it back. It's a quirky fun game. Your playfield looks really nice.

V_piscopo
Try Mayfair Amusements to see if they have a nos copy. If they don't have one you can order a repro from bgresto.

Brought my first pin home this weekend! Kind of crazy to be able to play some pinball at home. Loving Sky Jump. Thinking of doing a paint job on the cabinet at some point, but for now, let's play!

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Great choice and congrats

Soon you’ll realize that it’s crazy to just have one pin at home when you can have so many more! Great choice on your first pin. When you get ready to restencil your cabinet make sure to use Pinball Pimp stencils.
http://pinballpimpstencils.com/?page_id=1442

#thestruggleisreal

Man. Of course there's a resource for that. I'm constantly amazed by this community. Thanks a lot for the link!

Grabbed this in Allentown. Set it up yesterday. It's in fantastic condition. And a blast to play.
Breakshot has been ony radar for awhile. Hopefully I can find an earthshaker and medusa.
They are next on the hit list.

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Iron Maiden!

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Another cheap beater to fix up for the LEPer colony here..

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Became a Millionaire for dirt cheap!

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LEP men rule!

Threw this wild woman in my trailer and headed south!

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you can probably see that thing from space.

If you slide your China cymbal and drum kit a little bit more to the left you could fit another machine there.

I was home from Pinfest for about 2 hours then had to go scoop this.

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No kidding. Pull those LED's & put incandescent bulbs back in.

Or just leave it alone if that’s how you like it since it’s your game. But whatever.

I’ve been looking for a cyclopes for a very long time. Awesome pickup. If you ever decide to sell it, please pm me!

Good eye! It's bad enough that my pin is completely hiding my drum kit, I have to find another place to convert into a game room. The kit is cornered!

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Great score! I think that might be the same one I was going to look at. Couldn't pull the trigger as we just bought a house. PF looks awesome!

It was a pleasure! I got her up and running, now you can make it shine. Thanks for a nice and easy transaction. Nice meeting you, and great to deal with.
dirkdiggler

Thanks! It's in pretty good shape.didnt need much work. Got a good deal on it too! Congrats on the house.hopefully it will have a game room?

Yeah, I had to move my kit out into the garage. I could fit 4 pins where this was. And I have two Chinas I can tell you my neighbors are not big Slipknot fans.

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My toys are guitars, and my neighbors don't like Slipknot or Pantera

Yeah we will have a decent game room big enough to fit a few pins and an arcade game. There have been some great deals going around lately such as that DE Star Trek for about 1k. Normally I have to travel out of state to get pins.

Here is my latest pickup. A non-working project but the price was right. Unfortunately, the balligator mech in it entirety was removed at some point. They even removed the 2nd flipper button and filled in the cabinet. Playfield has next to no wear and should clean up nicely. BG looks perfect. Side of head has cracking in paint and right side cabinet has wear with fair touch ups.

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Cyclopes!! That is fantastic...not an easy game to come by. I've only seen two or three of them in person. Awesome backglass. Great pick up.

I brought this BSD back from Pinfest Sunday. The colors on the cabinet are unfaded, very few dings, really nice playfield, but it needs a shop job and small fixes. I couldn’t pass up the deal.

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Awesome grab, not that I'm biased. Cab does look nice.

If you want one of the tombstone mods, I should have them within a week and will have a few extras. Let me know and I'll save one for you. Not sure if you've seen it before, but here's the one on my game.

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Just got this one, still looking for that elusive Fathom.

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the only BSD i saw at pinfest was the one in the indoor flea market that had a sold sticker on it. what the hell?

Yeah, there were at least three or four of them at the show last year.

Indoor flea market vendor advertised on Facebook Wednesday, working but unshopped. Two flea market vendors asked about it within an hour. I offered a non-refundable $200 Paypal Friends and family deposit via pm and provided a reference of another collector whom he had known for years. I bought the game at the beginning of set up on Thursday.

The other BSD was more expensive, didn’t work and didn’t have a translite.

Well it wasn't today, but I finally get to post in this thread! My friend Lee (Cdnpinballer) and I brought some games home from Pinfest. We had a great time and met some great people down there!
I bought the Firepower from the flea market. Still chasing some system 6 gremlins, and I found a burned up/ melted coil...but its "mostly working" lol
Nice to bring some more classics back to Canada! After an 8 hour drive we were thirsty!

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Cool! Any delays at the border?

I bought this from a collector in NY. This Paragon and Haunted House were childhood favorites. I already have a Paragon project ready to restore. The Black Hole has a heavily flaking inner backglass but Shay Arcade Group will start making them soon.

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I’m sure they had their “alternative truths” receipts ready for the customs agents