Recent content by ChristopherO

I plan to fire them up as soon as I figure out how to make sure they're glued together right. They will go well with the Weber candle lanterns I've also picked up for my collection.

I live in Weber country in the NW burbs of Chicago near where the company was founded and have stumbled across some really neat finds at garage sales and estate sales over the years. In the past I found a like new prototype Weber Smokey Joe from the first 6 months of production that I ended up...

Not as interesting or rare as the 1955 prototype Smokey Joe I found and posted on here and sold to a member but I stumbled on these today. 3 like new in box Large 18" bug Zappers. My parents had a smaller size one when I was a kid that I dug out a few years back but the Powe supply had given...

I told them it was an old Weber and thanked them for picking it up for me. They called me sunday and said they found another one at a Threshing Bee. This one is obviously later 50s judging from the wooden handle and extra vents but it's still got the same early style legs and a really neat finish.

Awesome, thanks for the info. My parents picked up the grill for me at an estate sale. Neat to know it's a first year of production.

This one is very similar except the handle and mine only has 1 vent on the bottom. http://weberkettleclub.com/blog/2014/12/11/early-smokey-joe/

Digging a bit more I found this page http://weberkettleclub.com/grills/weber-smokey-joe-history/ Looks like they did make a handle that pointed in as evidenced by the Galley Que I wonder if this is a very early model before they flopped the handle?

I happened across this grill. It looks like a vintage 50's smokey joe. But the handle is backwards on the vent and I don't see any weber markings on the vents. I'm within 1/2 an hour of the weber headquarters so it's possible it could be a prototype or very early smokey joe. Or is it a...