Your Weekly Estate and Garage sale finds (pics)

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by zenith2134

Bottom left of Robb's TV rack photo...that black RCA 12" b/w made in Taiwan..Must be the most common TV set I have ever seen, any age. Had 4 or 5 over the years in white, black, or woodgrain color cabinet...not even trying. They run forever and usually just need a tuner cleaning.

I try to avoid anything too common, so I usually don't bother with RCA. I have only one left, my 1978 19" XL-100 that's awaiting repairs for a common vertical problem. Very plain set, but for some reason I find it quite fetching. Not much dust in it and it's in excellent condition, probably sidelined early in its life due to the vertical problem and stored until I got it.

[zenith2134]

...Well..I never meant to suggest that RCA sets were common in general....

No one can tell me that a CT-100 or 21-CT-55 is a 'common' set ! Or even previously-common ilk such as chassis type CTC-74, an electronically tuned set. or the ctc-121 for instance which, these days, is getting rarer by the second.

RCA made many many many sets. Reason enough to 'bother with' them as a collector, well into the solid-state era of analog.

[Jon A.]

Well, if an RCA has features that make it interesting to me I'll grab it. A motor-driven remote tuner for example will make just about any early SS set appealing to me. Usually the oldest TVs I see around here are late 80s-early 90s RCA consoles.

[Robb]

Found these pristine condition records and vintage tin at an estate sale today (on a friday), near my house.
The Marrs - Pump up the volume was a thrift shop buy.
Paid $10.00 for all.

[Username1]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

No way, he'd have dozens of those porta-potties by now in that case.

He does I'm sure of it, he just don't show them to us..... He's just tryin to
throw us off...... No one can find all that stuff in such perfect condition
ever week..... He uses the estate sale thing to throw us off too.....

Someone start following him......


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Too late he did it again......

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[Robb]

Dont make me laugh, I've been getting
Lucky this past year!

[Robb]

heres a pic of the house I went in for the estate sale .. it was like time stood still in 1960 !

[Jon A.]

Doug H.'s summer home maybe?

[Kamakiri]

Got 3 gigantic Apollo Saturn rockets, 2 of which are flying models....one uses 4 Estes type motors and one uses a HUGE rocket motor of some kind. The one on the stand is a Monogram model from 1968. All for $20

Plus, I got this cool Heathkit IM-1202 nixie tube multimeter with probes. I paid $20 for it, only because I figured someone here might want it. So, if you do, drop me a PM

[Sandy G]

I had the big Monogram moon rocket model, too. My Mom painted it, she was a MUCH better artist than I was. Seems like it was originally designed to come apart into the various stages-Or you could Cheat, like I did, & just make it "Solid". Think I tried makin' it "Collapsable" which was all it did-Fall apart.

[Robb]

Few more Lp's I found at a garage sale today

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by Robb

heres a pic of the house I went in for the estate sale .. it was like time stood still in 1960 !

Kinda neat old Chrysler... Looks to be a 1966, '67, '68...

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Kinda neat old Chrysler... Looks to be a 1966, '67, '68...

'66 New Yorker is my best guess.

[Sandy G]

Think you're right. My Uncle had a '66 300 tudor hardtop, it was yellow w/a black vinyl top, & black vinyl interior. He had it til 1972 or '73. Neat car.

[Username1]

Time machine........ Time machine........... Robb has a Time Machine........