Val Deale
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Wow, I'm amazed how mamy nice looking vintage Webers are in your area at one time!
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Josh Dekubber
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In that way I'm lucky because no one else values them at all around here so if I don't pick them up most times they won't get picked up. I'm happy about that! It's great for me but there is also no market for me to sell restored vintage Webers either. Thats fine with me because I'm not doing flips anymore and if I do the newer Genesis ii grills is where the easy profit is in my area.
Val Deale
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That's interesting. It's kind of sad though, it means a lot of potentially beautiful grills end up going to landfill.
Cody Bratton
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Grills can wait, health and well-being are the main concern! Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Steve Hoch
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Done right that's a $400 grill all day long or a heck of nice keeper.
Troy Goldreyer
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Free NG Summit Silver in Cheyenne, WY
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Josh Dekubber
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Josh Dekubber
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That right I remember now.
LMichaels
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It now resides with my oldest daughter and son in law. Though the frame is from a very early 1st gen after the original was unceremoniously crushed by a front end loader
But, thanks to Gerry Schaeffer who had an early 1st gen frame, we salvaged it and I was able to install a newer firebox as well from the Genesis 2000 I had that I scrapped due to completely rotted frame I could not salvage
Josh Dekubber
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Makes me happy to know that the grill you bought new all those years ago is still grilling! All the parts may not be original but the fact that it was worth the effort to keep it going is meaningful to me.It now resides with my oldest daughter and son in law. Though the frame is from a very early 1st gen after the original was unceremoniously crushed by a front end loader
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Josh Dekubber
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I have one identical to this one that I'm holding for Jon and using for now. It works very well but like Bruce mentioned the cookbox design is flawed and rusts out. Jon has a fix though that applies to the first and this second generation Summit that would make them excellent.This actually looks pretty nice hard to see but the bottom of the cabinet looks good. Has some rust around the screws on the top panel I know nothing about these grills.
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Mike-GA
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Really nice one! I'd pay full price for that one. The plethora of accessories is a big bonus.I have one just like it in similar condition in line for restoration. Looks decent but I don't need it also looks Just like the one Larry bought new in 1989 if I remember correctly?
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Cody Bratton
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The age of that one confuses me by the usual tells. Maybe it’s my Super Bowl food coma…
The tank level indicator is on the outside of the frame, which usually depicts an older model, if I’m not mistaken? But has the newer style level decal.
But then it doesn’t have the wide white walls.
The lid end caps the handle sticks out thru the ends like the older models have? (maybe I have that reversed?).
It’s a beautiful grill, shame someone screwed that bottle opener to the frame
Mike-GA
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Good observations. I don’t know but I like it. I think I could put that bottle opener to good use though.The age of that one confuses me by the usual tells. Maybe it’s my Super Bowl food coma…
The tank level indicator is on the outside of the frame, which usually depicts an older model, if I’m not mistaken? But has the newer style level decal.
But then it doesn’t have the wide white walls.
The lid end caps the handle sticks out thru the ends like the older models have? (maybe I have that reversed?).
It’s a beautiful grill, shame someone screwed that bottle opener to the frame
Cody Bratton
TVWBB Honor Circle
With a folding table, too. Nice little find!
The table's broken at the point the rod goes through but that's easy to replace. The frame and cabinet were my priority and they are in good shape. I thought the pan rails on the firebox would be shot based on the pan sitting in the cabinet but they are fine. The pan is in the bottom because the prior owner removed it and apparently the missing flavorizers in order to use it as a charcoal grill. There was a pan full of ashes filling the firebox and the bottom of the cabinet had a half inch of grease/ash. This grill's plastic shows it spent 20 years outdoors but is the cabinet bottom is very solid, likely thanks to the grease!
It was about 75 feet from the road and the snow was deep. This was the first day over 32 in a couple weeks, so the slow drag had me sweating it out lol! I normally try to scrape out and bag much of the debris before I load 'em in the Town & Country. In this case I ended up with 10+ lbs of material.
I was expecting it to be good for backup parts for my everyday Silver A, but the cabinet integrity has me thinking of making this into a full time matching griddle. This poor thing is a victim of identity theft and deserves restoration to it's hot 'n fast Silver A birthright. A fun project down the road.