Perhaps they had been chewed by rats along the way. That's very, very common. All the Coke machines do have insulation inside of them as the way to keep the cooling inside of the machines.

Nothing says ‘I Love You’ like an old vending machine, and if it is a restored and working vintage Vendo V-80 cola dispenser then you have yourself a winner. [Jan Cumps] from Belgium was ...

People search the Internet and antique stores and ... of the many items in their Coca-Cola memorabilia collection recently in Junction City, such as their Coke machine, which is still in working ...