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What's this set?
Looks like I'm picking up a freebie on CL on Sunday, the one on the bottom. Anyone recognize it?
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1970s Zenith, maybe?
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Most likely a Zenith. Not sure of year but probably before 1980.
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For some reason I'm starting to really dig the ugly '70s Mediterranean looking sets
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Get the rca that's a great set.
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Wow, the 70s styles were gross!! The furniture style was very dark and overly ornate.
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Top set RCA
Bottom set cant quite tell Maybe a Maggy. Need to see knobs........... Worth looking into, may be a rarity. RCA may be a CTC169 they had a killer pix but a little hard to work on. I loved them as they always came out great, never seen a soft jug in one. 73 Zeno |
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That cabinet seems to be a little more ornate than normal, to the extent of being hideous.
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Bottom one looks like a Sears or maybe Curtis Mathes set to me.
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I'm just gonna get the bottom one. Because, y'know, I have to limit myself....unless one of you wants it and wants to take possession at ETF....
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It IS ugly, ain't it? And it will be mine....allllllll mine
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Man, ugly is the IN thing these days.
I had two Sears-branded RCAs like the one on top, both CTC157. The cabinets are mostly Masonite and are quite sturdy. The only particle board is just above the swivel base. |
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Well, the mystery is over. Zenith CCII.
The thing was heavily water damaged on the bottom (to the point where the bottom board in the back looked like it came off a shipwreck), the top was heavily scratched/damaged, the front control door missing, and the channel indicator windows were half gone. It was a pushbutton tuner, that thing on the front that looked like a channel knob, was a sticker. Looked like someone let a preschooler have his/her way all over the front of it, possibly jabbing things at the control panel. Wasn't worth carrying out of the basement (to me). I left it there. Yeah, might have been decent parts in there, but that was a battle I chose to retreat from.
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If that was the case I'd have taken it, saved the CRT chassis and tuner (given away/sold any of that I did not think I'd use, to anyone that might use it), and thrown out the cabinet. There is only a finite number of parts and parts sets out there....We should save whatever we can.
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I would not have bothered either... you can't save them all! jr |
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