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MeetMeatsMeat · Mar 2, 2013

I checked Craigslist after a long day of work and BOOM this was posted for free. They said it was going to be sitting on the curb. I couldn't find my keys fast enough!

It has this styrofoam stuff in it to make it look like ashes. So I think it was a store model and never used.I opened up the "oven" door and there was the original rotisserie motor.

Has anybody seen one of these?

Thermal Mass · Mar 2, 2013

Fark'n cool!!
I'll bet that handle on the "oven" gets fark'n hot...
What is the name on it say??

Toney Marconi · Mar 2, 2013

MeetMeatsMeat said:
Has anybody seen one of these?

Not since I was a kid.
I seem to remember my Uncle Alfred using one for 4th of July cookouts.

HankB · Mar 2, 2013

Very cool! We had something similar when I was a kid back in the middle of the previous century. A piece of history! (I don't think ours had the oven - just cylindrical hood.)

sdbbq1234 · Mar 2, 2013

Post a closer pic of the model up in the right hand corner.

Looks really cool!

wallace

MeetMeatsMeat · Mar 2, 2013

Here it is

MeetMeatsMeat · Mar 2, 2013

Oven door open

MeetMeatsMeat · Mar 2, 2013

The knob on the side turns the grate.

cholloway · Mar 2, 2013

What a fantastic piece of Americana! THAT is a score!!!

padge31 · Mar 2, 2013

I found an add on-line from 1963 and it was selling for 16.88. I just typed in wards garden mark grill.

Eric

Homebrewed Q · Mar 2, 2013

Whoa! Nice and unique!

cholloway · Mar 2, 2013

padge31 said:
I found an add on-line from 1963 and it was selling for 16.88.

Eric

But, that was the sale price... Regularly $19.50 (rotisserie and all):icon_smile_tongue:

Brian in Maine · Mar 2, 2013

My dad had a grill like that. It brings back memories.

mbshop · Mar 3, 2013

i'm sooooo freakin jealous ! i want one sooooo bad.
some times ebay has parts for the rotiss.

caseydog · Mar 3, 2013

MeetMeatsMeat said:
Has anybody seen one of these?

Oh, yeah. If you grew up in the 60s, you have seen a grill like this. That style of grill was very common back then. You rarely see one like that, today.

The rotisserie was part of the package. That, and cooking grate that you could crank up and down.

On the downside, they tended to rust out faster than you could wear one out cooking on it. I think my dad may have possibly gotten two summers out of one -- barely.

Even though they suck, it is cool to see one for the memories.

CD

sdbbq1234 · Mar 3, 2013

Thanks for posting! That is nice!!

wallace

J-Rod · Mar 3, 2013

Wow that's a neat piece of backyard bbq history, and from Monkey wards no less! I'd be putting that in the "museum" for sure, meaning basement or other man cave area to be appreciated over beers during halftime or intermissions.

Fishawn · Mar 3, 2013

Cool!

BubbaCoy · Mar 3, 2013

Hot Grill Time Machine!

One of my most vivid childhood memories is watching my dad cook rotisserie chicken on a grill like that. He used a flat basket rig to cook cut-up chicken pieces, basting it with a sauce made (I think) from melted butter. To this day I swear I can still hear the whir of the motor as the basket spun around and around.

Great find - thanks for sharing the pics.

plakers · Mar 3, 2013

Wow, Not sure that I'd use it for, not sure where I'd store it, not sure if there is any real value, really sure if I'd have beat you to it then it would be mine.

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