great HITACHI find

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ViennaSound

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Friday afternoon.
There is 2 times in the year a big street festival with flea running.
Only touristic and commercial sellers around.
Impossible to find anything interesting. :thumbsdown:

Here a streetview:

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Had not much time, so fast passing the dealers.

Then i heard some pumping sound.
Impressive.
There was a CD dealer with a boombox under the table.
Wow, a KABOOM blue blinker. :w00t:
Really strong sound.
But worthless to ask for it, not for sale. :no:

Turned my head around and passed between the neighbour dealers desk.
Looked under the table....



:jawdrop:


:jawdrop: :dunce: :jawdrop:


:jawdrop: :blink: :hmmm: :huh: :-) :w00t: :-D


Whoa, a big fat HITACHI!!!
And then the problem!
Have only 30euros left in the pocket. :'-(
But i was able to dump the price to 30, so this beauty came with me. :thumbsup:
And here it is:

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seen this unit a few times in the net.
But never thought it is so big!! :-O

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Radio works, tape needs belts

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a few splashes from a painter on it, but easy to remove

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love the VUs :cool:

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backside also ok

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Knobs, aerial, everything ok on it

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never thought i would find on this tiny street flea something like this... :agree:

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then something disappointing happened.
A young girl came the way, with a boombox bag (like on ebay sold) :w00t:
I said something like "look, i got the thing that designed your bag"
She looked at me like: :dunce: :huh: :hmmm:
"had no idea this should be such a big radio. I only bought it because i liked the look of it...." :-/
Could it be, young people have no idea about old boomboxes?
Maybe...

The 2nd happen was more likely.
Passed a few recycling containers on the way home.
Hey , what is this one on one container? :w00t:
Took this poor rampaged LUXOR with me :angelic:

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tapedoor missing, but fully working.
Parting?
Custom job?
Will see... ;-)
 
oldskool69

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Nice flea score on the Hitachi! :thumbsup: The Luxor has some JVC flavor. Will you modify it or get parts? :-)
 
MasterBlaster84

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Now that's a good snag Roman. :thumbsup:

The girl with the bag seems to common, most youth are clueless to the boombox culture of the past.
 
floyd

floyd

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it must be cool hitachi week :lol: looks like the trk 8200 to me ,nice looking unit no doubt awesome!
 
Superduper

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Hey Roman. How about photographing it next to some other more common boomboxes so we can see how big it REALLY is. Because by itself, it's hard to tell. :lol:
 
ViennaSound

ViennaSound

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@SD: will do so. The size is really impressive next to usual boomboxes. :cool:
But the PHILIPS soundmachine will blow it away by sounding without doubts... :blush:

@oldskool: will take the LUXOR in the cellar. No parting yet, think i will try to save it. ;-)
 
ViennaSound

ViennaSound

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@nz: wow, that is a really great one :w00t:
love it :smooch:

@dale: the HITACHI got rebelted and cleaned.
Is fully working now. :cool:
forgotten to post pics, will do that later.

the LUXOR is still in my cellar.
reproduced a tapedoor (off a smashed AUDIOTON), but the tapedrive seems to be finally dead. :thumbsdown:
first it was working, but then it smelled burned. Maybe was it wet inside.
But i was not able to kill it :blush:
 
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