'What a bit of tatt' I hear you cry!
Yeah OK frankly right now it does look dead ropey and helped even less by someone sticking a thin coat of matt black paint (applied with a brush!) over the lovely (though impractical) chocolate Nextel paint on the rest of the chassis. Just count yourself lucky you can't see the full ghastliness. This is no way to treat an icon!
The photograph on eBay certainly didn't show it in it's glory (! how many times has that been said I wonder?) Still I'm not complaining it was dirt cheap, I am enjoying Roxy Music's second album 'for your pleasure' through it right now. And it will look *killer* when I have restored it to it's full 1976 semi industrial built like a brick glory..
I mean anyone could go into a shop and buy the latest piece of plastic technocr**p, where's the fun in that?
Ah, but it *works* and that's the big thing.
ReplyDeleteSeeing it restored will be lovely, but despite its abused outsides, its insides are still doing what they were designed to do--just like the rest of us. That was a good era.