need vintage motorola now!

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The article I read said the first place they would be selling the new sets would be China so a good chance thats where they would be made? I've seen such portables on ebay from time to time but have not looked lately. Seems like if people knew the company was looking for one they'd rush them online! I do have a Motorola TV from the later 50s (has the "batwing" emblem, anyhow) but it is a big, ugly table model.

I have in my memory an ad in Time magazine for Motorola, must have been late 70s. It was a 2 page spread and it had a great photo of a Motorola Color TV from the 50s. It really made a big impression on me (and I was just a little kid at the time). I've never been able to find that ad again. The reason for it, as I remember, was to explain why the company wasn't in the tv business any longer & about the technology it was involved in. I really don't think this was from when Motorola sold the TV business-I think this was later in the 70s or maybe early 80s. If I was doing an ad I think I would be more inclined to feature such a set as that plus the VT 71, the rectangular color tv and the Quasar. Those were all milestones for the Galvin folks, I feel.