zenith console tv - just OK or holy grail ?

[vintagecollect]

Grab that console snade, very few are being preserved. I have 25cc55 chassis that just seemed OK at first--realized it had a great cabinet. Almost prototype service modules made on a beadboard, modules and rest on a chassis big and really made for a tube set, 1971. It's first generation chromacolor with awesome picture.


that set Once common, now somewhat rare, that's a CCII set. I can't find one locally.

[sampson159]

i have that same zenith. mine is dated 1977. this is a great set. dumpster dive for that one!!

[Chad Hauris]

Something about this looks like a system 3 chassis. The external looks of the SYstem 3 and chromacolor II sets of this style are almost exactly the same...however the CC II sets will have the interlock and circuit breaker like radioTVnut said. Also there will be no Zenith "crest" on the system3 sets.
The CC II sets are much better made in my opinion than the System 3...have had problems with weak CRT's and bad components on the CRT modules on the system 3's.

[vintagecollect]

that's got to be a CCII set, with knobs. system 3's have electronic tunning by then. every zenith that's been a CCII, has had the same or similiar knobs.

[drh4683]

radiotvnut is correct. Thats one of the very last dial tuner zeniths from around '84. Keep in mind, if it were a chroma II, you should see the zenith crown logo, which zenith apparently dropped in 1980 on all of their electronics. This set has the cheap little plastic knob for the on-off which is typical of these early to mid 80's zeniths.
This is a cheaper economy set from the time. But yes, there were chorma II's that looked very similar to this. Most had the chormatic button and a rectangular on/off push button at the top though.