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That's a nice console! I had one with the same features and control layout several years ago. Someone had "antiqued" the cabinet green. I would have loved to have gotten my hands on the person who did that. Mine had a fairly sensitive tuner and would bring in stations that this new garbage would not.
A guy I know tried to sell me one like this about a year ago for $200. The radio played great but the TT had problems. The cabinet had major damage on the top where they had a fish tank sitting on top of it.
You are lucky to have a thrift store that actually has half off days. The ones around here act like they are doing you a big favor for having 10% off sales. There's a radio/8-track/BSR changer combo in a particleboard cabinet in a local thrift store. I think it's a Capehart or Soundesign. They wanted a very reasonable $194 for it! The only kind of console I'd pay that kind of money for would be one with a Fisher 500C or similar stereo stuffed in it.
It's a shame that you can't hardly give a console stereo of this quality to the general public. In the past year, I've junked 5 or 6 because no one would buy them. Don't worry, they were not high end like yours is. Nowadays, if it's not in a silver plastic box with a CD player on top, most people will go the other way. In the early '90's there was a guy here who owned a junk store. About the only people who would buy consoles, even back then, were the ones that wanted to make some sort of cabinet out of them. The junk store owner would usually stip the insides out for the buyer and give them to me.
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