My love / hate relationship with eBay

[MosportGreen66]

very cool Jeff, very cool!

Nice picture with Grump... awesome!

[COPO_Anders]

Jeff, is your name on Jenkins telephonelist now ? Cool !

[WILMASBOYL78]

Just when I thought I had seen everything.......

was Don's a COPO Icebox???

wilma

[sYc]

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I think it's a fake. Do you have paper work!!!

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Kim, some very good questions and I will do my best to answer them.

About 8 years a go I got a call that the fridge was for sale. I made a hurried trip out East, meeting the seller in a Waffle House to finalize the deal. The first order of business was to the research it, looking through old appliance magazines and contacting anyone who knew old refrigerators. As luck would have it, I found a repairman who had actually worked on this unit. I made a special trip to a large appliance show, where this repairman was be reunited with this special refrigerator. Upon inspection, not only did he say is was indeed from Don’s house, but pointed out a couple of things that we had not noticed, such as a scratch on top, done in late ’69 when a friend of Dons sat a large trophy on top. Also on hand was a well known boozier, who we had sample the brew inside. According to him, no doubt a vintage piece, from Don’s house. At that point in time, everyone was convinced it was THE refrigerator from Don’s house.

For the past several years, I have displayed the refrigerator at several major appliance shows, with some of the folks mentioned above on hand. Several articles have been written about it, including in “Vintage Appliances”, “Racing Appliances” and my favorite “Super Appliances”.

Fast-forward a few years. Seems some so-called friends of the Yenko family are upset with me and have decided to take it out on the refrigerator. The repairman now says that the unit may not be from Don’s house, but from up the street, possibly from the home of the grandfather of one of the Dixie Chicks. The local boozier says he had reservations about the unit all along, as the brew he sampled just did not taste right. Adding fuel to the fire was a self proclaimed “vintage refrigerator expert”, who said things just did not look right, such as the handle was a tad too small. I even had someone who admitted he knew nothing about vintage refrigerators offer to help, because they were about “finding the truth”. To top it off, someone bought a similar unit from a neighbor, declaring it THE Yenko refrigerator, because reportedly Don had drank a brew or two from their unit.

At this point, I have no doubt the unit I have is indeed the one from Don’s house, it will remain stickered as pictured above, and I will continue to call it “The Yenko refrigerator”. BTW, contrary to rumors, it is not for sale.

[nuch_ss396]

I hope we are not going to get into in-fighting with another
forum on the authentic-ness of this frig....

One of those is/was enough......

[Denis]

I know the feeling...

[kwhizz]

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I know the feeling...



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Denis






Ken

[kwhizz]

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Kim, some very good questions and I will do my best to answer them.

About 8 years a go I got a call that the fridge was for sale. I made a hurried trip out East, meeting the seller in a Waffle House to finalize the deal. The first order of business was to the research it, looking through old appliance magazines and contacting anyone who knew old refrigerators. As luck would have it, I found a repairman who had actually worked on this unit. I made a special trip to a large appliance show, where this repairman was be reunited with this special refrigerator. Upon inspection, not only did he say is was indeed from Don’s house, but pointed out a couple of things that we had not noticed, such as a scratch on top, done in late ’69 when a friend of Dons sat a large trophy on top. Also on hand was a well known boozier, who we had sample the brew inside. According to him, no doubt a vintage piece, from Don’s house. At that point in time, everyone was convinced it was THE refrigerator from Don’s house.

For the past several years, I have displayed the refrigerator at several major appliance shows, with some of the folks mentioned above on hand. Several articles have been written about it, including in “Vintage Appliances”, “Racing Appliances” and my favorite “Super Appliances”.

Fast-forward a few years. Seems some so-called friends of the Yenko family are upset with me and have decided to take it out on the refrigerator. The repairman now says that the unit may not be from Don’s house, but from up the street, possibly from the home of the grandfather of one of the Dixie Chicks. The local boozier says he had reservations about the unit all along, as the brew he sampled just did not taste right. Adding fuel to the fire was a self proclaimed “vintage refrigerator expert”, who said things just did not look right, such as the handle was a tad too small. I even had someone who admitted he knew nothing about vintage refrigerators offer to help, because they were about “finding the truth”. To top it off, someone bought a similar unit from a neighbor, declaring it THE Yenko refrigerator, because reportedly Don had drank a brew or two from their unit.

At this point, I have no doubt the unit I have is indeed the one from Don’s house, it will remain stickered as pictured above, and I will continue to call it “The Yenko refrigerator”. BTW, contrary to rumors, it is not for sale.

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Tom.......You missed your calling......That is "Tooo" Funny......

Ken

[ORIGLS6]

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Kim, some very good questions and I will do my best to answer them.

About 8 years a go I got a call that the fridge was for sale. I made a hurried trip out East, meeting the seller in a Waffle House to finalize the deal. .................................................. .................................................. ..............and I will continue to call it “The Yenko refrigerator”. BTW, contrary to rumors, it is not for sale.


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[Kim_Howie]

LOVE IT