Not for storing Arcade machines.  Made my first real machine find this weekend in a local barn. I have Jcblu78 to thank for finding these for me and for helping haul all this stuff home. I didn't get pictures of how we found the stuff when we got there, I didn't grab my camera until the second load and we had already moved everything around. We got a Chase HQ that has been partialy gutted, it's missing the game boards and the optical board from the steering wheel. I'll have to test the monitor to see if it's any good. Tha cab is in decent shape and artwork is pretty much intact. There was also a Championship Sprint 3-player, again pretty much intact. CP is busted, but fixable, some slight water damage to the cab, but it's mainly complete. The last one (and the only one I didn't get a pic of yet) is an Atari Race Drivin. What a beast this cab is! It's complete and in pretty good shape. It was lying on its back on the ground when we found it and then we found out why! That damn thing is tall and heavy. None of the games are functional, but the Championship Sprint and Hard Drivin are intact so it looks promising. There were also a pile of monitors and 5 large rubbermaid bins of parts, mostly power supplies and some control panels  from what I saw from a quick look through the boxes. Here's some pics.

http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/Champsprint.JPG
http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/chase1.JPG
http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/chase2.jpg
http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/dabarn.jpg
http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/monpile2.jpg
http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/monpile3.jpg

Thanks to Diamond Dave and Ernda77 for helping me with the second load!

look

some more

still coming

few more

last but not least

Here's a couple more pics(once they start working again). The truck was actually full of monitors right front to back, but I had already took a couple downstairs to my workshop before this picture was taken.

http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/montruck.jpg

And here's the Race Drivin. I've cleaned it up a little bit, it was laying on its back on the barn floor so where the pedals are was all full of hay and dirt.

http://ca.geocities.com/turbotbird@rogers.com/racedrivin.jpg

If anyone has schematics or a manual for a Race Drivin or knows where I can fine one online I could really use it.

'If anyone has schematics or a manual for a Race Drivin or knows where I can fine one online I could really use it. "

http://www.jmargolin.com/schem/schems.htm

BTW : This link, as well as over 1000 Game PDF Manuals, Pin ROMS, etc...
was found on the "Spies" archive compilation disks .  

Warning : Free plug for my site...
This 4 DVD set ( over 12 GIGS of Data ) can be found here :

http://www.hobbyroms.com/manual.html

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Cheers,
Steph
Ottawa

...some people have no respect.... leaving nice machines like that in a barn... go figure...

Race Drivin  in the mail  

Quoted from Moonlit_Knight, posted November 21, 2004, 4:54pm at here

...some people have no respect.... leaving nice machines like that in a barn... go figure...

Yep, they have been there for at least two years, probably longer. That having been said, they are in decent shape. I think there used to be a whole bunch more games there too. I have parts from quite a few different machines in the boxes. Mainly just control panels though, not much of anything else.

I hope you're able to restore some, or all of them...
But it's sad how so many of these machines were just discarded.

I remember being so bummed out seeing the "Arcade Graveyard" website. Someone took pictures of a landfill that used to have a warehouse full of arcade machines in it. When the warehouse burned down & collapsed, the piles & piles of machines just rotted in the dump. I don't have the link to the site, but here's similar ones... just as depressing...

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/2253/graveyd.html

http://home.comcast.net/~lobo666666/pingrave.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~lobo666666/videograve.htm