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Wouldn't you know I ran into a specimen of The Genuine Article today at a street fair. Yours is a pretty fair impostor - first thing I noticed is that your tube is squarer than a Porta-Color's. Plus, your knobs are over the speaker where the ones on the Specimen are below it.
I broke down and bought the specimen for $5 - looked to be in real nice shape. Cleaned up almost new! Antennas are a little bent and the positions of the control knobs are out of whack, but otherwise physically excellent. Looks kinda early '70s - got the red, blue and green crests (but no Porta-Color script), continuous UHF tuner and an inline tube.
Unfortunately it's not so hot electronically. Wait, let me rephrase that. About a minute after I fired it up something started burning. I unplugged it as fast as I could and I'm hoping nothing got too crispy in there.
So Kamakiri, if you can save it (or want to), it's yours. If not, it's up for grabs!
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