Sep-27, 2002: ukVac's 1st bulk auction attempt

[Ravage]

This is going back some, but a few of us will recall way way back in August-September 2002, P-Man got a lead on a warehouse full of old cabs in Essex... Naturally we went to investigate and we were blown away with what we found - some 80 cabs left and stored since 1983 in a barn!

Realising it was far too many machines for us to handle or afford, we decided the best solution was to attempt as ukvac auction and a web page with an email address to me accepting offers. And so, the cut off was the 27th of Sept 2002...

Ill post the article as best I can - and indeed due to everyone virtually being on dialup only links were given to pics but I'll post them now we can "hog the internet highway"

Regardsless - a blast from 2002.... enjoy:

 

[Ravage]

Items are up for offers. Names & last offers on the list. Strictly no favouritism shown. Offers will end 27th Sept -02. £25 increments for offers please, not doing £1 a time... It'll take me forever Dedicated cabinets START at £100 opening bids

Items as depicted. As far as we know they were all stored up in approx 1983 pulled off site as working, but we are unable to plug them in. 95% are complete - a few have joysticks or buttons missing, which can be seen from the pictures below.

Cabs - Dedicated

Dedicated cabinets START at £100 opening bids

1. Astroblaster American One, i.e. tac-Scan cabinet

2. Asteroids Lunar Lander Cabinet @£250 currently

3. Asteroids #2

4. Asteroids #3

5. Crash

6. Crash #2 Conversion Cabinet

7. Carnival

8. Asteroids Deluxe

9. Super Bug

10. Super Bug #2

11. Super Bug #3

12. Midway Space Invader

13. Midway Space Invader #2

14. Armour Attack @£180 currently

15. Centipede

16. Paperboy

17. Space tactics Cockpit

18. Space Duel

19. Sprint 1

20. Sprint 2

21. Missile Command

22. Tomahawk 777

23. Streets Jump Bug

24. Mad Alien

25. Battlezone

26. Sega Carnival

Conversions - Well, not oriignal maufactiurer's dedicated, but not jamma sh*te either

27. Electrocoin Space Panic Dedicated

28. Moon Cresta

29. Frogger

30. Donkey Kong (in Sega Space Trek cabinet)

31. Donkey Kong #2 (in Sega Space Trek cabinet)

32. The Glutton Pac-Man Copy namco/midway Cab

33. Galaxy Galaxians Copy

34. Probably Converted Dedicated siddam explorer Cabinet

35. taitel Style Track'n'field

JAMMAs

another 26!

PARTS observed:

Space Duel: Control Panel (missing 1 red button but complete otherwise), Maruee, PCb, wiring harness, manuals

2 Star Castle pcbs (clean!)

4 Space Invader L'shaped PCBs amongst the pile in pic 20, i saw a few capcom pcbs, Irem pcbs (kung-fu master?)

Asteroids Control Panel - just the metal

zaccaria hot wheels PCB

 

[Ravage]

AstroBlaster, Carnival, Super bug, Glutton, Sprint 2

Sprint 2, Space Invader, Sprint 1, Space Panic, Space Invader #2, Asteroids #3, Asteroids Dx

Ast Dx, Super Bug #2, Space Duel, Super Bug #3

Battlezone, Centipede (back of the Glutton)

Donkey Kong #2, Armour Attack, Galaxy

Crash (Conv), Missile Command

Super Bug #2 & #3, Space Duel

Asteroids, Asteroids #2, Tomahawk 777, Frogger, mad Alien

Probably Converted Dedicated siddam explorer Cabinet

Asteroids (LL), Asteroirds #2, Paperboy

Missile Command, Crash, Asteroids (LL)

Crash, Asteroids (LL)

Carnival, Super Bug (Space tactics in BG)

Space Invader, Asteroids #3, Super Bug

PCBs

Mad Alien

Asteroids (LL), Asteroids #2... oh you work it out

 

[Ravage]

How'd it end up?

Unfortunately, the op discovered a certain business in the upper midlands who had put a stupidly high bid in (it seems so as for years certain machine slanguished on their web site...)

Sadly we didnt accruse enough interest or sums, and ikndeed we ignored the other 66% of stuff at the place - half fruit machines and half JAMMAs....

Oh well... Still one hell of a find

 

[Adrian Purser]

I believe that the space tactics from that haul is now in ukvac hands

 

[IDCHAPPY]

B'ah, i wish i had got into the cab 10 years earlier

 

[stevearcade]

Awesome!

 

[smarty]

I remember putting offers in on a few of those games when they came up. God know where i would have put the Super Bug, it looks like a pretty large cab, my folks would have loved that turning up at home! Shame they never made it into the ukvacs hands.

Smart.

 

[stevearcade]

Oh, and my Birthday's the 27th September, like the date of this raid. Maybe one day I'll get to raid an arcade warehouse for my Birthday, what an awesome birthday present that would be

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[Alpha1]

I remember putting offers in on a few of those games when they came up. God know where i would have put the Super Bug, it looks like a pretty large cab, my folks would have loved that turning up at home! Shame they never made it into the ukvacs hands.

Smart.

Are you still after one? Speak to Ade.

 

[smarty]

Are you still after one? Speak to Ade.

Its tempting to know that, but reality is at the mo i don't have the space or funds.

Cheers.

 

[Alpha1]

No problem - I think he has a nice one though and it probably wouldn't be super expensive.

 

[Adrian Purser]

I have 2 super bugs at the moment. They are projects currently but my plan is to restore them both together next year. It's sadly far to cold in my unit to work comfortably right now. Bazfish has first refusal on the second one but failing that it will be up for grabs.

 

[tymawrcymru]

really enjoyed looking at this thread.

Great name for a machine - MAD ALIENS, never heard of it before.

Cheers

 

[Ordyne]

I ended up with the converta cab astr blaster from this lot!

 

[DanP]

I'm pretty sure that lot was originally from the arcade in Broadstairs. If so its the one I played to death as a nipper!

Dan

 

[Alpha1]

Hey,

Looking at these photos again I have to say this is a most awesome find. As cool as the Ship for sure, the Converta-Cab Astro Blaster is uber - never seen another like it.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Unfortunately i was still playing PS2 back then, wish i'd gone retro sooner

 

[Equites]

Just noticed this thread, a shame this never came off.

Somehow though, I ended up with one of the Sega/Gremlin DK cabs anyway;

It's now a dedicated Teal Astro Blaster.

 

[Alpha1]

Arcade Warehouse got in there and bought the lot from under ukvac - so some were sold off on eBay hence luckily quite a few collectors still managed to snag them.