John P. Dayhuff's 6th Annual "12 Hours Of Pinball"

Randy, Corey, Glenn and I drove up to Battle Creek Friday afternoon. The van said 487 miles from Grinnell to BC. It took us about 7 hours. Our other passenger Nick was too sick to travel. I did pick up his t-shirt for him however.

While driving through Iowa City it was raining pretty hard. About 200 yards in front of us a semi started to Jack knife in the middle of the interstate. I'll I could do was apply the brakes and scream "Look at that! Look at that!". Anyway, the trailer as about at a 90 degree to the cab. Somehow the driver straightened it out. The rest of the drive was pretty easy except I was on edge from the near death experience.

"John P. Dayhuff's 12 Hours of Pinball 2008" Part 1




"John P. Dayhuff's 12 Hours of Pinball 2008" Part 2




John's elusive "EM Charlies Angles". There is a NOS playfield sitting next to it.


60's and 80's SS and EM line on the right. Data East and Capcom on the left.






Data East King Kong (IPDB Link) One of 9 produced.


King Kong playfield
























My buddy Randy


The "Match Predictor" that I gave John last year. I brought him a switch to enable "free vend" for his soda machine this year.





















My buddy Corey


Randy








Randy


My fellow van rider Glenn


Glenn playing G&R












Glenn and I enjoyed John's excellent sys80 collection