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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Sad...Though, I guess it is better than those scum bags who gut and repurpose console cabinets.
The bad thing about modernizing the look of the timeless is that modern taste is transitory. What is hot today will be the height of tacky tomorrow, thus updating it makes it more likely to go out of style....If someone wants a radio that age a up-to-date cabinet style likely will make no difference to them.
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It is a crying shame, IMHO, that the cabinet of this GE radio was repainted. I think the cabinet is real wood, and to paint over such a beautiful thing is inexcusable. If the paint were stripped off, it might well ruin the wood underneath permanently.
I have two Zenith AM-FM table radios in real wood cabinets; I would not dream of doing anything to the finish of either of them. I like the look of real wood, and all but hate it when I see such a cabinet repainted, as this one was. One of my Zenith radios, a K731 in an Early American style cabinet, is in my apartment atop my refrigerator, and it matches the kitchen cabinets perfectly. The other Zenith, a C845 (like the one in my avatar), is in my bedroom atop a chest of drawers; again, the finish of the radio's cabinet matches that of the chest almost perfectly. Both radios work and sound great as well, even though both are well over 50 years old. These radios are keepers as far as I am concerned.
