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I went to the preview on Friday. It was amazing. From what I heard, he was a bit eccentric. If a new car didn't sell, it went to a shed, or stayed in the dealership. The trade in's went to a field on the family farm. All 50 years worth....... Some of those cars weren't too bad, but some had the...

oh.. and danemodsandy.. I'm laughing about your post. My Uncle and grandpa were TV repair men, and the CT-100 WAS a universally hated set with the techs back in the day. I would always want to "save" some of the old stuff that came into the shop, but, like you, I not only got a no.. but a HELL...

Some people do the gradual power up, which is probably wise. I don't, but you have to figure ANY pre 1965 electronic device is going to need a recap. By about 1965 most products had mylar caps. On that color set, did your friends parents smoke? That RCA probably had a non-bonded tube, and a...

Just my opinion... The set is beautiful, but to bring that price it would have to be in museum condition, and working flawlessly. With that being said... an item is worth what someone will pay for it. If I had it on an ebay listing, I'd probably set a reserve in that range and have the bidding...

Oh yes.. I'm well aware of the LG/Goldstar connection. LG is who bought Zenith, and destroyed that name before removing it from the market. As for this machine... yes.. be very glad you didn't buy one. Like I said in my earlier post, when working.. it did perform well, but reliability, not so...

I wonder what the reliability will be? If LG, probably not good. My LG went out in a blaze of glory. I can't totally complain about the LG as it was free, and when it worked.. I thought it did a pretty good job of cleaning, but as for reliability.... I believe the former owner had to have it...

Mine was a 1972 Pontiac Bonneville. I LOVED that car! Here is a pix from the Pontiac brochure. Mine was a 4-door in this color.

72 year round here. My house has little insulation... old windows.. and a poorly vented attic. Funny thing tho.. I had a new furnace and AC installed in 2006, and my utility bills went up, so either the new stuff ain't what it's cracked up to be, or utility costs have skyrocketed since then. My...

I have some friends that bought a house in November, and got an Admiral top loader from Home Depot. They were moving in, had a back-log of laundry.. and Home Depot had it for 229.00 ( a pre black Friday special) They seem to love it. I do know it fills to the top, not sure how it is on rinses. I...

Nice Sony! Twintubdexter.. your post brought back some memories. My Uncle was a Zenith dealer and as a kid, I worked in his shop. It's hard to fathom now, but during that era we would have gotten flack if we had ANY foreign brand on the shelf. Since this was a small town, you also would get the...

I'm still in a bit of shock, as I'm just heard of this. Terry was such a kind,sweet person. It was a pleasure to have known him, and I will miss him greatly.

Those were the hugest POS, yet at the time.. I thought so very cool. Our Pamida store had these in 1978-1979. Branded Electrophonic, and there were 4 designs. I can't remember the other 2, but one had a disco ball. All components were as BOL as you could get. If any "hipsters" went after this...

1961 RCA Our own Gansky (Greg) had one of those sets. Very cool, and very RARE, And yes... so very expensive in the day. Also.. the GE Portacolor was the longest lasting, most unchanged chassis design from a TV manufacturer. Also the last one to use vacuum tubes (clear up to 1980)

CBS Yep.. you nailed it Cory. I did get to see a CBS set in operation tho. I was surprised on how fantastic the picture was, but ya.. the system RCA came up with did prove to be better for the whole industry, and RCA must have been right as it's still basically in use today. Well.. not since...

Common Repairs Whirlcool.. when I was in repairs it was the late 70's, there were many of the earlier tube color sets on the repair route. Solid State stuff was still fairly new, so didn't see alot. Also remember that color TV was EXPENSIVE at that time and most people had 1 set, that got the...