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I never saw alot of Admiral sets. I have a few memories tho....
When I was a kid, and helped my Uncle on service calls ( circa 1978-1982) we had a few Admirals on our route. We had one customer that had a metal 19" table-top set (circa 1967-1969) THAT set had a stunning, FANTASTIC picture. A picture so good in fact, it gave a new, at the time, Zenith CC2 a run for the money. ANyway.. it belonged to an older couple who had gutted an old B&W console that this Admiral fit into. The Flyback went out, and they had it repaired. Mainly due to the fact that they wanted to keep their "custom" cabinet set-up and the picture was so good. That set had instant-on, which, when-ever we repaired it, we'd put it in "vacation" mode, but.. the customer always switched it back. I think I saw that same set in a used store 20 years later, and I still kick myself for not getting it. The few other Admirals we had on route were late 60's consoles, that were labled "Solar Color" and they were dogs, and always had bad picture-tubes. Back in the day, when I was married, my ex wife had her parents Admiral console. The set was a LATE 70's early 80's. It had a weak picture tube and an overscan problem. I remember thinking it was kind of junky, so we gave it away. I do remember thinking it was kind of an odd bird, as I wasn't aware Admiral put out anything that late. egrand.. that's a cool ad you found. I have never seen one of those. I remember what a big deal a remote set was (into the early 80's at least) We sold Zenith, and remote was always an option, and always added 100.00 to the cost ( to an already expensive set) Also... I don't think Admiral would have been part of the Philco/Nap line-up in that era. We also sold Philco during that time, and they were rebadged Sylvania's
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