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Cab History
« on: August 30, 2005, 04:37:30 pm »
Anyone ever thought of this/currently do this?  It just occured to me last night.  I was thinking that people could take a piece of paper, write your name and location on it, and when you bought(and eventually sold) the cab.  Also, if you bought it as a project, you could write a brief history of the repairs you made to it, or what you converted it to/from, etc.


So, what do you think?  I just thought it would be a neat way to see where cabs traveled, how many people have owned them, etc.  You could put the paper either under the coin box, or even tack it on the inside of the cab.  I know some of you out there have wondered the history of your cabs, at one time or another!

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Re: Cab History
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2005, 04:46:10 pm »

Some cabs do have that, they have location history and a repair log that was stopped being updated in 1987.

Of course, all it takes is one person to rip the paper out.

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Re: Cab History
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2005, 04:53:45 pm »
My Space Invaders still has some maintenance documentation inside it. Not much, but the machine is in pretty good shape so that may be all there is. I guess I should print out my name & info along with the few things that I've done to it and add it to the inside. Interesting idea.

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Re: Cab History
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2005, 06:29:01 pm »
Very interesting idea and I think I will start doing that!
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Re: Cab History
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2005, 11:04:01 am »
Very interesting idea and I think I will start doing that!


If someone was enterprising enough, you could almost start up a cabinet registration service.
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Re: Cab History
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2005, 11:15:04 am »

VINs don't track most of those things.  They track title changes, mostly.

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Re: Cab History
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2005, 09:20:30 pm »
Very interesting idea and I think I will start doing that!


I have been doing that for every conversion/repair ever since I started with arcade games, I'll usually write the conversion data on the bottom, and a decal goes on the inside and back
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