The original red door we saw, will probably be restored to its original Red glory and then inherit a reproduction changer and then be grafted onto an appropriatly sized box (from those we could see in the Rick's R graveyard). What I suspect is that Rick's Restoration simply gave them a credit for the door and then sold Rick H another machine. Besides the bullet holes there was considerable crush damage to the left rear of the machine. Much more than the one Rick H ended up with. Certainly worth a pretty penny to a collector. AND it is a rather rare and desirable machine. The door on the original machine Rick H bought was actually in fairly decent condition. That's just not something you can add to an existing door. While the 'new' machine does have its own raised Coca-Cola logo, it is smaller and in a different location. That is what makes it a Coke Machine and that's not something you would just grind away. That is a raised logo that was cast/embossed when the door was made. The feed in the 'new' machine uses 9 inclined feeds of 12 bottles per feed and is a wider assembly.Īnd look at the Coca-Cola name on the front. The original box on the show originally used a #48 mechanism that featured four vertical staggered double troughs.

There is no way the inside area of the original machine could hold the #72 mechanism they displayed in the final machine. So they couldn't have just switched doors. The old rusty machine had large curves while the 'refurbed' one had a small arc. If you look at the before and after/side by side photo they showed you can clearly see the radii of the corners are not even close.

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