A Touch of Gray!
Picked up a few vintage Grays the other day.
Traded a 1952 Cast Iron Cook N Kettle for this Gray 26.75" Weber Bar-B-Q-Kettle.
No date stamp, rolled steel handles. Ty never used it and bought it at an Estate Sale, the previous owner must have done some smoking in it, he drilled a hole in the lid and added a Comark thermometer.
Remarkably the interior is in much better shape than the exterior.
The lid has some kind of road rash and small rust spots on it like and the finish is flaking off, but overall a 26" this old is in pretty good shape.
I plan to add a Summit thermometer and bezel in the lid and paint the leg frame. Ordered a premium cover and ash tray for it and and checking with a couple Sheet Metal shops to see if they can fab a rotisserie ring for it similar to the EZ-Que.
While I was cleaning the 26'er up, my neighbor Tom came by and asked me if I wanted the kettle I'd given him a couple years ago back? He admitted that he'd never used it and probably never would. So, I reluctantly said Yes and this is what he gave me!
No date stamps on the 22" Bar-B-Q-Kettle or the Smokey Joe-
An OTS "G" (1985) Wood handles in very good shape with the logo intact.
I'm rehoming the 22" Bar-B-Q-Kettle to a co-worker (who swears he'll use it)
and the OTS is on craigslist, along with a few of these "Weber Redneck Firepits!
I put some Oak on the handles and caps on the legs, the lids were sacrificed to the UDS Gods.