1960-1965 22in Red Bar-B-Q Kettle?


 
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I would like to identify what year my grill was made in it has thumb screws for the legs, the wheels are metal, it has the three daisy wheels on the bottom, red metal handles on the bowl, and the lid does not have any numbers,patent pending, or letter codes on the lid at all, just Bar-B-Q Kettle and Arlington Heights.

I will try to post pictures soon.

The history of this grill was that it was owned by my next door neighbors in Binghamton NY. It was passed to the neighbor from his father. We have had the grill since they moved to Florida in 2003. It is all original, but it has a few chips. When the neighbor gave it to us it was because his wife didn't want to bring it when they moved. He told us they have had their best meals on that grill.

Let me know what year I have here, from what research I have done it seems to be 1960-1965 but I was trying to narrow it down. Its a beautiful red with some chips, but if this turns out to be that old I'm going to fix all of the chips with duplicolor.
 
Well I have an 18.5 redhead (leg screws, no patent, metal wheel hubs) that was given to my Grandfather in around 1974 by my Aunt and Uncle (who owned an Ace Hardware) as a house warming gift. My guess is that it was new old stock in '74 since the leg screws were eliminated by Weber around 1969-70 with the patent being issued in November of 1970. So i'm dating (determining
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) my 18.5 be from 1968 or so. After looking at some literature from Weber over the years, they still were doing the metal lid handles in 1962, but showed wooden lid handles by the debut of the Ranger in 1965. If you have a wooden lid handle. safe bet is after 1963-64.
 
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