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my old zenith 29jc20
well, i checked the picture of the set you had. mine looks a little different, it only has one 5x7" speaker, and the cabinet top does not have a lip on it. otherwise the front ,and controls look the same.
i do not think i want to sell the set. i went to a lot of trouble to get the old girl, and i want to hold on to her. this was zeniths first regular production 21" set, from 1961-62, and i'm sure not very many were made. Most of them probably met their fate when they were dropped into a hopper in a garbage truck, and the compaction plate descended on them, ushering in their burial at a landfill. I am happy to have been able to save this, and some other old color and b.w sets, from such a fate. it brings tears to my eyes to think of how many ctc2's 4.s 5.s 7.s and even 621ts's and so on, ended their lives at some landfill, and not in someones collection.
last year about this time, i found a mcintosh mr-71 tuner in the garbage , just a few houses from mine. i took it home, cleaned a few switches, and tube sockets, and sold it on ebay last july, for $600.00!!, some guy in paris(ugh) bought it, and it probably now resides on a shelf with other vintage equipment.
my screen name, rca 2000, is from the name of a VERY RARE rca color set that i finally got last year, after over 20 years of looking. it has electronic tuning, motorless remote, is fully solid state, from 1969!1 only 2000 of them were made, and probably less than 200 of them are left.
i have some old tube and solid state audio equipment (such as an eico st40, w/tuner and multiplex unit, an eico hf -14 or similar, and a fender vibrato champ CHASSIS ONLY, along with other tube and early solid state audio equipment, like a sansui 9090, and so on. ) i was going to put this stuff on e-bay, but now, maybe i'll give you guys a crack at some of it, first., if anyone is interested.
i don't have a digital camera right now, (money is tight right now) but as soon as i can i'll get some pictures of my old zenith 29jc20 color set ,inside and out, and in operation, on this site.
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