Calling all BBX Archaeologists!

Jam_On_It

Member (SA)
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!
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Jam_On_It

Member (SA)
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

Member (SA)
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

Boomus Fidelis
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

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

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