Mesquite Super Auction Results- 12/13/03
Auction held at the Resistol Arena (Mesquite Rodeo)

Results courtesy of Hassell Castle Amusements.

NOTE: Add 13% Buyers Premium + 8.25% Texas Sales Tax to Hammer Price(s) below to see final price paid.

Lots of pins as usual here in Texas....as they say...everything is bigger in Texas! Before the
auction began I figured it would be a sellers market since this was
the holiday season auction...I was wrong...I would say for the most
part it was a byers market. Many pins....lots of restorable early
Bally, Williams and Stern SS pinballs. Prices listed below are the
hammer prices, add 13% buyers premium + 8.25% Sales Tax to figure out
what was actually paid for each machine. I've tried to list the
machine in close to the order they were auctioned off. 

And as always....Please do not e-mail me asking what kind fo shape was
XXX game in. If I didn't mention it....I don't remember. You should
have been there!

Barbwire $650
NBA Fastbreak $900 (very nice, fully working)
WWF Royal Rumble $650
Police Force $625
Hook $800 (nice shape with topper)
Demolition Man $1300 PASS Didn't meet reserve
Batman Forever $1150 (working, Excellent condition, clean)
Elvira ATPM $750 (working, nice playfield, excessive decal damage)
Judge Dredd $750
Twister $975
Starship Troopers $1100 (working, weak DMD)
Hook $875
Addams Family $2100 (very nice, no mansion wear, worked great)
Attack from Mars $2200 (very nice, working, weak DMD)
Star Wars EP1 $1950 (excellent condition, working all the way)
Attack from Mars $1950 (working, nice except for insert wear)
Star Trek TNG $1825 (excellent condition, fully working)
Xenon $700 (working, superb shape, blue Road Show legs)
** Playboy $300 (not working, great bg, unfaded cab, rough playfield)
Phoenix $150 (not working)
* KISS $1000 (not working, great cab, rough playfield, nice backglass)
Black Knight $425 (not working, ok shape)
Gorgar $225 (not working, pretty nice)
Eight Ball $175 (nice cab, nice backglass, rough playfield, no boards)
Harlem Globetrotters $275 (not working)
6 Million Dollar Man $ I MISSED THE PRICE (not working)
Power Play $300 (not working, great cab shape minimal playfield wear)
Mata Hari $200 (not working, nice playfield, bg and cabinet, rusty)
Flash $150 (not working)
**** Star Wars $1100 BUYBACK (nice, shopped, working, with topper)
Trident $100 (not working)
Catacomb $300 (fully working, nice cab and playfield, flaking bg)
Flash $185 (not working, water damage)
Torch $ I MISSED THE PRICE (not working)
Addams Family $1675 (working, nice cabinet, playfield magnet burn)
Flintstones $650 (Redemption Game by ICE)
Taxi $850 (Beautiful, clean, Maryln, autographed by Mark Ritchie)
Stern Playboy $1800 BUYBACK (looked like new, fully working)
Theatre of Magic $2000 BUYBACK (nice, ramp damage, missing parts)
SouthPark $1900 BUYBACK (nice, clean, working)
Supersonic $525 (nice backglass, playfield touchup, clean, working)
BellRinger $325 (Gottlieb Redemption Pinball)
Whirlwind $675 (working, heavy insert wear, dirty)
Police Force $300 (working, rough shape)
Nine Ball $275 (working, rough shape)
Trident $300 (pretty nice, working)
Airborne Avengers $125 (not working)
Flash $50 (not working)
Solar Fire $50 (not working)
Mr and Ms Pac $200
Future Spa $175
*** Hothand $PASS (didn't meet reserve, read description below)
Deadly Weapon $100 (parts machine)
Street Fighter $650 (working)
Dracula $1000 (working, cabinet faded)
Big Indian EM $175 (nice cab and playfield, backglass flaking)
Last Action Hero $750 (import, oxidated metal)
Kings of Steel $50 (parts machine, had Contact backglass installed)
Hot Tip $75
Evil Kenieval $300 (not working, nice cab, excellent bg, rough field)
Miss America Deluxe BINGO $50 (not working, very nice, weird legs)
Dixieland BINGO $50 (not working, missing ball upkicker motor, nice)
Nashville BINGO $25 (not working, nice)
Mystic Gate $45 (not working, cabinet rough)
Phoenix $175
Hi Deal EM $200 (nice condition, working)
Black Out $325 (nice condition)
TriZone $175
Disco Fever $170 (not working, nicest one I've seen)
Nugent $250 (not working, rough condition)
Solar Fire $175 (not working, nicer of the two)
Pinball Champ $160 (not working, very nice condition)
Super Nova $100 (not working, backglass flaking)
Alien Poker $200 (nice condition)
Target Pool EM $375 (excellent condition, wedgehead, fully working)
Twin Joker $50
Mata Hari $350 (working, nice bg and playfield, cabinet painted red)
High Speed $625 (working, rough playfield)
Shaq Attack $300 (nice shape, would not boot)
Meteor $475 (working, rough condition)

NOTES & STUFF:
* We'll I ended up picking up the KISS Pinball for $1000 which I
personally thought was a heck of a deal. I've been searching for a
KISS Pinball for a while as I'm a fan fo the band. It has very clean
boards...no acid damage, perfect plastics, backglass very nice,
unfaded cabinet. I plan to put a new IPB playfield in it and I'm
contemplating going full blown on it and doing a total restore
including repainting the cabinet. 

** The Bally Playboy was a comical pin to talk about along with the
Stern Hot Hand...but I'll get to the Hot Hand in a moment. The
previous owner of the Bally Playboy took it upon himself to get crazy
with a can of gold spray paint. Owner had painted the leg bolts, leg
levelers, plunger rod & housing, bolts that hold coindoor to the
cabinet and siderail nails Krylon gold. It was done we'll but looked
awefully tacky. Some of us were joking about it and referring to it as
the "South Dallas Playboy"

*** Hot Hand was another story. Previous owner bought it back....geez
he should have taken whatever he could have gotten for it! Not only
did this pinball machine work but it had been clearcoated..but not in
a good way. Why bother removing your plastics, rubber rings, bulbs or
anything for that matter before clearing the playfield. Just shoot
your clearcoat right over everything.....don't bother about cleaning
the dirt and dust off the field before hand...that will just add
character to the machine. This game was worth taking pictures of.

**** Final note. I've never been to thrilled with sellers bidding up
there items or buy backs. But I had to do it this time...and for good
reason. I bought back my Data East Star Wars that I took there, the
game was freshly shopped with header and I got lots of compliments on
it before the auction began. I wasn't going to give it away! I had
more than $1100 into it. Needless to say...after they finished
auctioning off the pins a guy came up and offered $1275 cash for it
and I sold it to him. He's happy, I'm happy a win/win for both of us.

There you have it!  
Craig Hassell