SODAPOPBOB
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Morb ~
I apologize for hogging so much air time here, but since I have decided to dip into my savings and take a shot at the bottle, I was hoping you wouldn’t mind my exuberence and grant me a little leeway here. I realize it is still a bit of a crap shoot as to whether the bottle is original and genuine, but based on everything I have been able to ascertain at the present, I am 100% convinced it is the real deal.
Some may ask, if I intend to try and be the highest bidder, why draw any more attention to it than necessary? Wouldn’t it be better to just let it alone and see what happens? My reply to this is that I am intentionally trying to attract attention to it! I want someone to break the reserve so I (and numerous others) will know exactly where we stand. I never did like that reserve business anyway, but suppose there may be advantages to it that I am not aware of. Personally, I think a seller should just establish a minimum starting price and let the chips fall where they may.
I won’t go into detail as to how much I intend to bid, but suffice it to say that I feel we may very well be looking at the next “Holy Grail” of acl soda bottles. My philosophy at the moment is to “shoot first” and then ask questions and do the research on it afterwards. If it turns out to be a fluke of some kind, then so be it. But I am willing to take that gamble on what I presently feel is a 80% possibility of it being a genuine prototype that for one reason or another just never made it’s way into full production.
And for those who have been following this thread with the same measure of interest that I have, I’d like to share the following article I came across recently regarding part of the transition period when the Mountain Dew brand was becoming a PepsiCo product. I am not entirely sure what year(s) the article is referring to, but I believe it was either in the late 1950s or very early 1960s. And the part I would like to focus on is near the end where it talks about Bill Jones “testing” different formulas. I know it is talking about testing the flavor formula itself and not a new bottle design, but it may be a clue that suggest the possibility that other forms of experimentation (including a new bottle design) were being conducted during this same time period. Thus, as Morb brought to light during the very onset of this thread, that the bottle could very well have been a prototype. And that’s good enough for me!
Morb : Thanks again for allowing me to participate in this most interesting topic, and especially for bringing it to our attention in the first place. Now that’s what I call sharing.
Your “Buyer Beware” recommendation is duly noted! Thanks.
SODAPOPBOB
{Article} / {Slightly edited for clarity}
When Bill Jones took over the Tip Corporation, and in order to finance his new enterprise, he needed investors, so he offered shares in the new company to some of his bottler friends. The original investors were Pepsi-Cola bottlers: Herman Minges of Lumberton, North Carolina; Richard Minges of Fayetteville, North Carolina; Allie Hartman of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Wythe Hull of Marion, Virginia.
Using Wythe Hull's Pepsi-Cola bottling facility in Marion, Virginia as a base of operations, Jones began testing different formulas. Employees at the Marion Pepsi plant were the first to sample each new version of the drink. Finally, one mixture seemed to have the right taste.
IS IT POSSIBLE THE BOTTLE CAME FROM OR WAS CONNECTED IN SOME WAY TO THE MARION, VIRGINIA BOTTLING PLANT ?
< Message edited by SODAPOPBOB -- 1/4/2011 6:50:13 PM >
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