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Originally Posted by drh4683
They wanted $950 for the juke which was insane.
As for those '71 plates, its cause I had the car at a car show that weekend and I wanted plates that represented the year of the car and minnesotas were all I had....
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I was wondering about that '71 Minnesota license plate as well; I didn't realize the car was yours. I thought the car was in a garage at the house where you got the Admiral TV, and the owner had moved to the Chicago area in 1971; then, he or she put the car in the garage and forgot about it for the next 39 years.
My dad had a 1959 Thunderbird which he restored and drove until 1967; I remember that because the car sat in our garage in suburban Cleveland for years afterwards with 1967 plates, next to his 1963 Chevrolet BelAir. I still remember the license numbers on both cars, even now, over 45 years later: the BelAir had DE 5613, while the T-bird had RM 3165. I probably wouldn't have remembered those numbers so well after all these years were it not for the fact that the numbers were mirror images of each other.
BTW, as to the $950 price tag on the jukebox, I agree -- it is waaaay too high, even for a vintage machine. Depending on its condition, I don't think it's worth more than $200 at most; if it is in poor shape and/or is not working, I'd lower that figure to $150. I don't know of any vintage jukebox collectors except perhaps for Chad Hauris, and I haven't seen his posts here lately. In any event, I'm surprised he didn't go after the $950 jukebox, high price and all. If it's a machine he doesn't already have, I would think he would find some way to get it, the distance between West Texas and Chicago notwithstanding.