Just a Zenith 15" color TV kit. (!) Is that Iacobi's?

YES! that was an April Fool posting... I took that photo about 18 years ago when I hauled that set home from Northern Cal in my '77 Eldorado. It was a job and a half to get that TV safely in there! The set is now with Dan Iacopi. Does yours have the screwhead CRT still in it? Dan's does, and it had been VacuSealed. Last time I checked it by driving it with a CT-100 chassis, the tube was very good. It got thrown around in the '94 earthquake though, enough to rip some of the screws holding the side panels out. But the CRT seemed to have survied that, thank Goodness.

Yours is only the second one I've seen, and the third heard of. Ed Reitan mentioned many years ago that there was one in Chicago... Yours?

Charles

Charles,
Great story about the Zenith. When I got my set, the RCA dud 15GP22 CRT had been removed. The "original" Zenith (?) CRT was long gone back in the 1960s, according to the story. Mine now has a good RCA 15GP22 in it. The getter flashes on the neck of Iacopi's CRT are very large and beautiful. Wish all of mine looked like that one. I cringe at the thought of 15GP22s rattling around in an earthquake! I much prefer our Florida hurricanes!