Another TV shop is closing down

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Unfortunatly, Kens TV in lombard IL is closing at the end of this month. The owner is retiring after 45 years of service. Another TV guy I know (who has almost 300 vintage TVs) is friends with the owner, so he got to pick through a basement packed with old tube type color TV sets last month. I got the "leftovers", or whatever he didnt want. most being junk that was salvaged for parts. Basically he was being greedy and selfish, he wouldnt let me into the basement to take a look untill he was all done finding what he wanted. Since he knew the owner, he felt he had first chance on whatever he could find. He found some pretty nice stuff, like rca table remote sets, motorola remote sets you name it, it was down there. The guy just likes having old tvs, but doenst fix them, and does not go beyond the tube tester. Thus, I got to take all the NOS zenith and RCA parts. Picked up all kinds of parts that I dont know what to do with. Some of the parts included NOS motorola UHF and VHF tuners, as well as zenith and rca tuners and flybacks among other hard to find parts like knobs etc.

Anyway, I found 4 sets that looked to have some hope, all being sets he didnt like or "already have a few of those". Sorry guys, this guy refuses to show his sets on ak. Ive tried to get him to take some pics to show but he refuses.
First set is a 1972 zenith console, 20CC50Z. Looks complete, some missing knobs that I know I have somewhere. Otherwise, looks complete.