Trafford Park Raid Manchester 12.03.15
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gridrunner said:
I worked out it was XYMans stuff from the 2 Space harrier DLX machines that he had on ebay, I bought 2 machines from him when he was moving to usa, Champ Sprint and Darius, would of had more but didn't have space at the time.
Also Dsyde said he sold him the Trog machine which confirmed it for me, where else do you ever see 2 DLX SH together. He showed me all the cabs when I was there but I couldn't of told you what half were, he did have the huge Street Fighter one, so no idea where that went, I remember a Street Fighter pinball he was selling and it was working, Luke had the Sheriff cab from him and I remember Ordyne posting a picture of him looking through a monitor bezel seeing if people knew what it was, so I said, oh you won the front section from another SH DLX he was selling then
The good old days, they probably wernt all his machines, as I don't remember him having loads of System 1 cabs, so they probably bought a load from different places.
guy told me when I picked up Buggy Boy, he had bought a load of machines, stored in a trailer, he hadn't paid for a bit and they the trailer disappeared, he said that was full of cabs, wonder where that went as well
Darth Nuno said:
He moved to the USA which is why he cleared the warehouse he had all this lot in, took all the good cabs with him, over another 100 he said. Not heard anything since
Something from an old thread on here Posted: 16 Feb 2011 at 10:07am
He's pooka on KLOV, his account is suspended, but if you search for his posts you should find an email address and telephone number.
Ps I'm not really here.
resurrecting this thread...there were lots of banana boxes/boxes in this storage place which looked to be full of paper stuff. Has any of that being looked through yet, I was thinking if this stash was XYman's once upon time, legend has it he went to the Irish Atari factory and cleaned house, so quite possibly there might be some very scarce manuals/schematics etc in there somewhere....is/was there?
There were 7-9 filing cabinets FULL of all the Atari Ireland paperwork, sadly none of that was found. We are not sure what happened to it. Is it elsewhere? Was it dumped already? (we know they chucked the CAT boxes before we got there 
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We found literally about 4 inches of documents which I have. I've taken some pix which I'll share.
)We found literally about 4 inches of documents which I have. I've taken some pix which I'll share.
I remember opening that cabinet thinking we'd found it all, but every other drawer was empty
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I thought that raid on the ship was the best thing I'd ever seen, but this tops it by a long way. I'm literally gobsmacked. Massive hats off to all involved. I've got a question though - how on earth do people find out about stashes like this???
Any updates on what's happened to the nice stuff that was picked up in this raid? Appreciate it was all probably been swept up by the peeps who did the organising and donkey work, but there were pictures of SW Cockpits, Tapper, Paperboy, Space Harrier, Baby Pac, Major Havoc, iRobot, Crystal Castles to name a few. Where are those cabs now? Are they being restored? Will we see any decent pictures of these things?
It is great that these cabs have indeed been saved, and a few bits were offered up in the For Sale section, but it would be a shame to think the meaty stuff that was photographed has disappeared into a handful collectors' black holes never to be at least aired or shown off to the community again.
It is great that these cabs have indeed been saved, and a few bits were offered up in the For Sale section, but it would be a shame to think the meaty stuff that was photographed has disappeared into a handful collectors' black holes never to be at least aired or shown off to the community again.