Calling all BBX Archaeologists!

[Jam_On_It]

Hoping you guys can help out with this one!
I had this radio as a 14 year old kid and I would love to find it again. I searched through old family photographs and found two photos of it. The photo quality is poor but it’s all I have to go on.

It was purchased around 1985 at Pat’s Stereo Center in Greensburg, PA. I clearly remember it being an off-brand. Through careful inspection of the photos, I *think* it might be made by Centurion. The only other identifiable feature is each speaker cabinet has a forward and a top firing speaker. It was likely sold all over the world under various brand names.
GPT wasn’t much help. It consistently mis-identified it when I uploaded the photos for analysis.

Please ignore the mounting. As a kid, I had the BBX installed in a robot I was building at the time

If anyone recognizes it, please let me know. I would LOVE to track one down. It brought me tons of joy as a kid!

 

[Eddy]

The brand seems to be on the tape door? Quasar?

 

[caution]

Looks like the Centurion logo to me when compared to clearer versions

 

[Jam_On_It]

I’m fairly certain that the blurry logo is Centurion. I spent (too much) time examining it against Centurion logos found on the internet.

 

[Jam_On_It]

This is what weaponized OCD looks like LOL.
Two days of off-the-rails research and I found it.
Centurion E901X
Now…I need to find one!!

 

[Reli]

Looks like it might be a Sanyo aka

 

[Jam_On_It]

Looks like it might be a Sanyo aka

I’ll research it.
Side note - I’ve uncovered a deep murky world of Taiwanese / Hong Kong OEM’s making huge volumes of value-brand radios for dozens of off-brands. I knew this existed, but not on this level. Fascinating.

 

[Reli]

Yes, sometimes the same factory would put 15-20 different brand names on the same box before shipping them to different department store chains

 

[Eddy]

Found these pics on the web , looks like a few AKA s
Pics are too small to make out the brand

 

[caution]

And another

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[Tinman]

And another

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NYON baby!
One of the better vintage boombox brands.

 

[Reli]

NYON baby!
One of the better vintage boombox brands.

Really? Never heard of it before. And a google search turns up only one model (that one)

 

[stereomann]

Found these pics on the web , looks like a few AKA s
Pics are too small to make out the brand

Looks Like GPX to Me

 

[Tinman]

Really? Never heard of it before. And a google search turns up only one model (that one)

The big four of vintage boomboxes:
JVC, Panasonic, Sanyo and Nyon.

 

[Jam_On_It]

Found these pics on the web , looks like a few AKA s
Pics are too small to make out the brand

Eddie,
I can’t believe you found those pics! Wow!
I’m gonna do my best to decode those blurry brand names. Can’t thank you enough. Gets me one step
closer to finding one!!

 

[Jam_On_It]

And another

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I saw that one. I had it in my “maybe an AKA” pile.
Speakers look very similar, features are close, but the chassis aesthetics and control placement give me cause to doubt. I’m not sure about this one (?)

 

[Jam_On_It]

Incredible how much joy BBX’s brought us as kids.
I had this Centurion box in 1985 when I was 14. Had a really bad family life so I moved into my grandfather’s abandoned house on the same property. Lived alone from age 14 and supported myself for years. It was glorious to create my own stability and be out from under the strife. It was a better life.
I remember cold Pennsylvania winter nights with that Centurion radio. I’d stoke the old coal furnace in the basement, make some tea, and listen to cassettes or B-94’s top 8 at 8. Such beautiful, peaceful, empowered memories.
I’m really motivated to find this radio. It would be like Christmas Day when that thing arrived in the mail.

 

[Jam_On_It]

Eddie,
I can’t believe you found those pics! Wow!
I’m gonna do my best to decode those blurry brand names. Can’t thank you enough. Gets me one step
closer to finding one!!

Here we go!


GPX 900X!! None on eBay right now. Have the alert set!!
Trying to ID the second radio now!

 

[Eddy]

Eddie,
I can’t believe you found those pics! Wow!
I’m gonna do my best to decode those blurry brand names. Can’t thank you enough. Gets me one step
closer to finding one!!

Got to be some kind of detective. I hope you can get this box or a AKA again

 

[Eddy]

Here we go!
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GPX 900X!! None on eBay right now. Have the alert set!!
Trying to ID the second radio now!

The GPX version may be less rare than the centurion ?
So one step closer to get it