EM porn – electro-mechanical beauties

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Electro-mechanicals are the MILFs of the pinball world: they may be over forty years old, but some of them are drop-dead gorgeous.

And if you’re a fan of the mature machine then there’s no finer place on earth to find EMs in tip-top condition that Pinball Creative, the South London workshop where Giacomo Malvermi works his restoration magic.

Pavlov Pinball paid Malvermi a visit last week to ogle at some classic EMs. Here’s some of the best of what we saw:

First up was a stunning 1967 Williams Magic City, famous for its backglass featuring the famous phallic waterfall:

 

Next up is the always-popular Gottlieb Kings & Queens

Pinball Creative has restored a 1975 Gottlieb Spin Out which will be auctioned later in the year at at the Silverstone Classic, an event that sees Bugattis, E-type Jaguars, Ford Mustangs and GT40s and other classic cars of the ’60s coming together to be raced.

Then it’s on to a fantastic example of a 1965 Gottlieb Cow-Poke. The playfield was  sent to Henrik Maurer at Pinball Dreams in Germany for restoration. the cabinet has been repainted, everything has been re-chromed, every relay and contact has been cleaned or replaced, and all the lamp holders and coils are all new.

“Cow-Poke is a great game, so I am going to keep it for a couple of years and play it,” says Malvermi. “Eventually I will put it in an auction at Christie’s and someone will buy it for £9,000 ($14,000, 12,500 Euros) or so.”

Restoration involves cleaning every switch and relay:

Here’s one side of Pinball Creative’s workshop featuring seven beauties:

and here’s more of that Pin Up

 

 

 

 

 

 

… and that very rare Royal Pair, a version of Gottlieb’s Top Card that was only sold in Italy. Very few of these remain.

 

 

 

 

 

Slick Chick features nine bumpers, and is clearly influenced by the Playboy bunnies:

and those bunny girls aren’t official Playboy ones.

 Malvermi also has some woodrails, like this 1959 Gottlieb Universe:

… and a 1953 Gottlieb Arabian Knights (that’s Knights, not Nights, strangely)

 and plenty more machines waiting to be restored:

Special Pavlov Pinball thanks to Giacomo Malvermi and Pinball Creative for allowing us unfettered access to the workshop for a day.

All photos (c) Paul Rubens / Pavlov Pinball

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