Never Seen THIS before...

[Sandy G]

...For all you Boatanchor fans, there are currently 3 VERY interesting Collins radios on You-Know-Where right now. 2 R-389s, that has to be some sort of a record, there were only 850 or so of them ever made. Usually there's maybe 2 or 3 get sold a year. Both of 'em are already at about twice what I gave for mine, & still have over a week to run. I'd estimate they'll both go for $2500-3K, anyhow. The other is an R-391, the Autotune version of the R-390. There were 1250 or so of them made, & this one DOESN'T have the uber-rare power supply to make the Autotune gizmotron work,-neither does mine-but you still have a vey nice radio. Of course, I have no interest in any of these, other than a passing interest to see how high they'll all go. Last week, there was a Fowler Industries 1984 R-390A on there, that was up to $8K before it got pulled. Fowler Industries apparently made 5 or so R-390As in 1984-85 to fulfill a contract for some Navy ships that were being made. Reportedly, they were handmade at $25-30K apiece, & were all pulled out as surplus & replaced by 1995. An R-390A being made from scratch like that in '85 made about as much sense as it would for Ford to make a '65 Galaxie 500 today...There were THOUSANDS of them sitting around in gov't warehouses as used surplus then....or, duh, they could have put out feelers to the hobby community & gotten a few that way...