Size works against you on picnic coolers, most are the standard size, the little six-pack that I make go for more. The prices on my web site are high, since I'm the manufacturer, I don't compete with my dealers. If you take a picnic cooler, take the dings out, repaint it and letter it, how much would you have in it compared to a re-creation I make. Mine are insulated better, the are made better, and lettered better than the originals. I'm not knocking the originals, I have over 300 of the upright original machines and I have no idea of how many original picnic coolers I have. But to answer your question, if you have the little six-pack cooler and if it's in good shape, you would be in the 200 to 400 dollar range depending on the condition. If it is the standard size or even larger, drop it down to 50 to 150.

Everything depends on what you have. I just sold two old soda machines, rare ones, both unrestored, one was 'as found' and the other was a basket case, but then again, these were rare machines, for $18,500. Not bad considering I had less than 2k in them.

Dave