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This is the second or third vintage set I ever picked up and the very first I tried to restore. Luckily, I quickly realized I was in over my head before I did any damage and focused on the cosmetics while I practiced on easier sets like the Motorola VT71.

It was the beige version and rusty. The least appealing of the three colors originally offered IMO (Vermillion, Mahogany and Beige). (Also missing the antenna and metal channel selector knob.




So I decided to strip it, remove the rust and paint it a more appealing red.
















Here it is back together with a replacement antenna stuck in it. There it sat for 7 years....