Holy Grails of Collecting Thread

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Pictures or it didn't happen.

I’ll wait until I get it home!

 

[Brenda T]

Love to find an old chromoveil.

Right now my oldest find was this early 60’s SJ that I picked up for $10 last summer

Love that lil brown offset!
$10 is a GREAT price, but...


Mine isn't quite as old, tho - '68-ish(?)

 

[TonyUK]

One of these!


Looking at it, I don't think it would be too difficult to modify a modern kettle.

 

[Benny Gilbert]

One of these!
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Looking at it, I don't think it would be too difficult to modify a modern kettle.

I saw someone offer a kit to make these a few years ago from Australia on one of the Weber FB groups I'm part of. Don't have the link sadly, but I do know that conversion kits are or were out there!

 

[Kelly C]

A chromoveil Weber kettle or Galley Que or Demo kettle would be cool.

I picked up this original 22” chromoveil (aka Custom) called the Suburbanite last weekend and grilled burgers on it last night.

 

[Rich Dahl]

At 75 I'm now content with what I have, one of which is our 1998 Genesis 1000 that we bought new. I also have a 1985 Genesis 2 in nice overall condition, appears to be one of the first two hundred made. If anything, I would love to restore it to like new, but alas being old slow and full of fleas with some serious health problems, I don't think that's going to happen.

 

[Jon Tofte]

I have most of the realistic things I would like to own. Of course, there are always things out there that catch my eye. I would never expect to be able to own a 1950s kettle or some other really exotic item from Weber history. I am just thankful to have an early 1970s 22" kettle, unused and still in the box, and a companion restored 1974 18" one. I was just a young teenager when they were made! I also have an older ~1988 Genesis XXI (Jr.) intact with the original owner's manual. And a few 1980s Genesis grills in varying states of reconstruction (or at least awaiting that!), but none as cool as the one @Rich Dahl has. I consider my 1998 1st generation Summit fully restored and with stainless reinforcements for the firebox to be my most enjoyable Weber classic. It sees regular use.

On the realistic spectrum, I suppose the one kettle I would still like to own is a halfway decent avocado - 18" or 22". I can still remember as a young kid in the early 70s how women all coveted a kitchen redone in a harvest gold or avocado color scheme!

 

[Jeff Beitinger]

Not a GRAIL, but it was definitely a WANT.
For about 3 years I had been looking for a LE Red in decent shape and a decent price.
And lo.....two in one week! And for what ended up being an almost obscenely great deal on both!
I know they had their issues, but I don't care. It was nice to win one once in a while.

 

[DuaneMac]

I’d love to have a “meat cut” kettle!