Show us your vintage B&W sets!

Originally posted by Jeffhs
Holy mackerel! I haven't seen a Muntz TV since the '60s/70s, when my next-door neighbors in my hometown had one. The set died some time in the '70s, I believe, so they used it mainly as a stand for a 19" or larger portable after that, if memory serves. The Muntz had a beautiful cabinet, too, mahogany and with doors in front of the CRT, IIRC. (I like anything with a walnut or mahogany, or even oak, wood cabinet such as this.) They bought their set in the early '50s, so it may have been the same model as yours, only in a different cabinet. They don't make them like that anymore.

hehe yeah Muntz tv's seem to be a little scarce... I've never seen another in person before or after I picked that one up... I'm only 24 so I wasn't around when they were being made :p

but the cool thing about my muntz tv is that back around 1996 or so when I found it in an antique store I pluged it in and it worked right there in the shop and it had never been electrically restored (of course I know better now than to just turn on an antique piece of electronics with out a variac or first recapping the whole thing) but it was so cool that it still worked nicely after all those years...

now the picture is a little off so I'm going to get it recapped but I am going to have someone else do it as the big picture tube in it and such worries me a little... I've only done radios so far and the high voltage in it worries me a little... but since my motorola's picture tube is smaller I don't feel quite as worried or intimidated by it as I am by the muntz...

I too like the big old wood console tv's and radios also... but I'm running out of room and there are still two more tv's I want to get hehe

Antonio