It may be kinda ugly (in some cases) and look very cheap once you get the back off and notice but there is one advantage to plastic consoles...Weight. I had the same flat chassis and CRT in an Avanti (that was all wood but the base) and a generic fake wood plastic console. The Avanti despite being more compact is heavier. Another thing I liked about that 'plastic' console I had was that they used real finished wood for the top, not amalgamated sawdust with a Formica 'wood grain' decal pasted over it like many 'wood' consoles from other makes of the day.
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Originally Posted by zeno
True.
Earlier tin-cans came in the first 14" & IIRC a roundie. About 1970
they had a plethora of sizes. IIRC 18", 19", 20". The common table
model tin can was from then.
73 Zeno 
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Yeah, they seemed to keep the metal cabinets till around 1970 then they phased them out in all but the 23" and 25" and let those stick around into the S3 generation...Must not have had much faith in the weight handling properties of plastic.
IIRC many of the sub-23" sizes came out in the late 60's so there are probably a bunch of different screen size tin can zenith color sets out there.