O/T Old coca cola cooler

I picked this up on the side of the road,anybody know how old it is?,and I'm looking for ideas to do something with it.

 

Picture please.....

 

Westinghouse Standard, mid 30's thru the mid 40's. That looks like an early one. They made hundreds of thousands of these things, so it's about as rare as an empty Coke bottle . Still, nice find---worth fooling with.

 

well, if that was in a antiue store, they would ask a arm and a leg for it, paint it red

 

Looks similar to the one I have, only mine is missing the lid. Good find, a lot of people tun them into trailers to tow behind thier rods. I saw one in an antique store a yr or so ago, lot worse shape than mine with a $500 price tag on it.. You could also convert it to a gas barbeque, that would be dofferent.

 

Paint it like an old Coke machine. Here is mine. Sorry but I don't have a full shot of it.

 

It sure looks like the one in Mr. Butler's Market in the late 50s. It had water in it and really kept them cold. He had a 40 Dodge panel truck behind the store for years.

 

Saw one made into a chair for a rec room once. Done up as Coke machine with lettering on the side.

 

Whattya mean any ideas for it? If it was mine, Id paint it red and have it re-lettered. Put some decent casters under it and fill it with ice and beer for when friends come over. Thats just me though.

 

Ideas........oh yea.

I see chair in its future.

 

If you need Coke decals I have a catalog somewhere here from the only authorized company to do decals.

 

They make neet chairs do a serch I am sure there are pics

 

I do it up as a pabst blue ribbon beer cooler trailer

 

I've got one just like that, only a different color, and not as big and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

I don't think he needs decals, these particular machines have cocacola script in raised letters on the sides, they just need painted white

 

I have two of them. One is just like yours. It was in the back of a guys truck in line at the dumps. I asked him if I could have it, and he said yes. It's the one in the picture. My other one is real nice, and the Coca Cola logo is a stencil. That one is in my house.

 

We had one when I was a kid. My folks picked it up in the early 1950's.

 

Alongside the road!?!

Man how'd those boyscouts, girlscouts, churchgroups, convicts, etc miss that when they were doing the roadside clean up?

Cool find though.

 

If you REALLY want to do it right, have the cooling unit re-done in it and keep it running in your shop, full of ice cold frosties in bottles.

-Brad

 

No cooling unit,ice&water only,just like mine!