Mint '71 zenith console on ebay. Most certian that its a 12B14C50 chassis, the top notch color chassis that year and one of my most favored chassis models too next to the 12A12C52. This has the manual tuning ultramatic UHF tuner. This chassis used the much more squared off CRT, the chormacolor 25VAMP22.

Opening bid is a bit optimistic.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260313565789&indexURL=0#ebayphotohosting

Just josh'n. If it were remote and I were rich I'd buy it after I made sure nobody at AK had a similar one for at least that much. I like to give profits to the most deserving:)

Thats a aweful lot of money for a starting bid on a 70s rectangular set . A few months ago i just had to disguard a similar set to that . Wish i would have known Doug that you were interested in it .

It's very nice, and I'd save it, but worth about $10.

Charles

The television is in good condition and was working when last checked one year ago.

...and because it's so hard to turn on a television set, we never thought to try again for the auction. Take a picture of a television in operation? Can't be done! A starting bid of about $500 sounds about right, after all, that's what a new TV costs?

How do people this stupid even figure out how to turn on a computer? Or are they all just liars? I had two sets on eBay last week, (with screen shots) and sold them both!

EDIT: Just noticed that this guy has been registered with eBay since 2004, and has zero feedback?!

Just a note: I may be from Queens but I'm not from New Hyde Park. I wouldn't do something this foolish.

Sure is a beauty, but NO way am I forking over 500 for it. So close, too.

I wish him the best, but my last auction of stuff started at $50 and didn't get any bids. ePay is close to dead unless you're selling bars of gold for a $1 each.

Ok, the seller must have reconsidered his high price of $500. So he lowered the opening bid to $250, he didn't forget to add a reserve either...........Which is probably set at $500! LOL!

Hello everyone,


I really wish everyone would be a lot more positive lately on anyone trying to sell a classic TV. That attitude is almost self defeating in itself. Many other posts are done complaining that people aren't keeping classic TVs alive.

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Second, THIS IS an identical set to my 25CC55 solid state chassis Which is THE OLDEST known surviving large screen EARLY zenith solid state tv utilizing the infamous Chromacolor CRT. Any other SS chassis is probaly limited run or prototype which there are none known.

The condition is impeccaable for a nearly 40 YO TV. The modules are actually built on breadboards. Everthing is plug in as every other SS consumer product until reliablity and cost cutting removes plug in sockets . THIS IS a horiz large chassis, pretty much and over sized tube chassis used for SS and full size cabinet.

If I was closer, would get. This is Zenith's goldern age of TV when they dominated the market with their high performance black matrix CRT. The picture this sets makes is unreal. The Zenith history website states the CRT was the standard to be judged by for years.

1970's sets are the most over looked and least sought after. Solid wood cabinet with matching cabinetry. That special tuner DRH knows about.

Rarer than many 1950's color sets by the survival #'s. The last great era of American TV.........

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these sets are worth their weight in gold.the absolute best of the best.its just that we are all so used to the 5-10 non working set that we cant justify the expense.i would spend 100.00 on this gladly.any more than this,i cant do.i wish the owner luck and maybe this will raise the bar for us to sell our treasures.i agree with you on this item.

Second, THIS IS an identical set to my 25CC55 solid state chassis Which is THE OLDEST known surviving large screen EARLY zenith solid state tv utilizing the infamous Chromacolor CRT.


As far as I am concerned the chromacolor CRT is anything but infamous. Its the best CRT ever created.
Besides, I for one is not turning up my nose at this TV because of what it is. These are my favorites. ITs the crazy opening bid prices we are poking fun at, not the TV. But I do agree, as a whole, these sets get little to no respect. Ive been jabbed before based on the type of sets I collect vs. what I "should" collect.

As far as I am concerned the chromacolor CRT is anything but infamous. Its the best CRT ever created.
Besides, I for one is not turning up my nose at this TV because of what it is. These are my favorites. ITs the crazy opening bid prices we are poking fun at, not the TV. But I do agree, as a whole, these sets get little to no respect. Ive been jabbed before based on the type of sets I collect vs. what I "should" collect.

I agree 100%. I'd take a set like this in a New York second if it was local and the price was right. Those horizontal chassis Zenith's from the early '70's were probably among the most reliable American TV's ever built. But, the price? A little high for my blood. Collectors of TV's from this era are few and far between. Most collectors of other types of vintage electronics (radio's, amp's, etc) don't give TV's of this vintage a second look and the average "Joe" does not want a TV that's 35 years old. I get "the look" and "the comments" all the time when I express interest in old TV's or when someone sees my shop full of outdated electronics. If the demand for '70's TV sets were much higher; the price might be justified. Around here, sets like this either get trashed, get sold for a few $ at an estate sale, or wind up at the SA.

The price is right, he just listed it 25 years too soon.

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