tube console stereo pulled from the trash today!

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today on my lunchbreak TH member floridasam scooped me up from work and we went th the traditional lunchbreak two to look for gear (the local GW and SA) sam has been having REELy good luck lately, -he has scored 4 RTR decks in the last week, sadley he dosent post here much and is still more a AKer than a tapehead, but im trying to get him to convert, since i turned him on to RTR to begin with. anyways, hearing score stories from pretty much every other stereocamp local to me i figured i was due to find something epic! we hit the SA and he found a panasonic TT for $10 but i didnt find shit, then hit the GW where neither one of us found a damn thing eather.*fit* i only have about a hour to hit the spots, get lunch, and head back 2 work. only had 30mins left in my lunchbreak, (i hit the thrifts hard and fast) and we were on our way to wendys but there was a big nasty wreck on lantana rd so we took a detore threw a neighborhood to avoid the mess. we only got about 3 blocks deep when suddenly i saw a old rundown house with a bunch of moldy crap on the curb, and saw what looked like a console. "OH SHIT SAM STOP THE CAR STOP THE CAR" I Yelled and we came to a screeching hault. i jumped out and found a very grimey very dirty very beat up tube zenith console sitting there next to about 50 bags of god knows what and a stinky trashcan full of rotting food bloating in the 90 degree sun with flys bussing all over the place. he was really stunned as was i to find this relic but he drives a 2009 hyndai accent hatchback and there was no way in hell he could fit it in the car, i begged and pleaded for us to atleast try to stuff it into his little car but it just wasnt gunna happen. so i got on the horn and started franticly calling everyone i could think of with a truck, van, or suv. only person i could get ahold of was my co-worker john mitchell that was home enjoying his lunchbreak eating home cooked food relaxing with his wife. he really really didnt wanna come get me and the console cause he uses his lunchbreak time as decompression time much as i do but instead i relax by hitting as many thrifts as possible in a hours time. i begged, pleaded, bribed, and bitched my way into convincing him to get me on the way back to work. sam wished me luck and drove off and i sat there, in the sun, starving hungry cause i didnt have time to get lunch, guarding my find. i sat there for what seemed like forever, smoking cigarettes, siting ontop of the console so some other scrapper or flipper didnt get to it first. finally john showed up with only 5 mins to get back to the office, and we were 5 miles from work. my boss warned me not to be late getting back from lunch or he would take my bonus from me. john pulled up, dropped the tailgate, "HURRY UP MAN WE GOTTA ROLL, YOU OWE ME BIG TIME AND YOU BETTER HOOK ME UP WITH GAS!" HE GROWLED. on ony 2 hours of sleep from the night before and weak with hunger i bear hugged the console and lifted it into the back of the truck -im glad im still strong and young, that thing is HEAVY! i closed the tailgate and hopped in the truckbed with the console with a shit eating grin on my face from ear to ear! -i got my console!!*Hi5* we were running out of time and suddenly the sky turned black and was about to pour, he nailed the gas peeling out and we went screaming fast threw the neighborhood hauling ass back to the office, we were doing 70 down congress ave in midday traffic, weaving in and out, trying to get back to work on time, and trying to beat the inevidible storm encroaching on us, as he was weaving in and out of traffic, i was sliding around the bed of the truck holding on to dear life and trying to keep the console level and in one piece. suddenly the temp dropped 20 degrees, the sun went away, and lightning cracked across the sky! we got back to the office JUST IN TIME, he backed in to the overhang infront of the strip mall where we work, "HURRY HURRY" I SHOUTED, i dropped the tailgate and he went running to the back of the truck, i slid the console to him as fast as possible and we got it under the overhang just as baseball sized raindrops were starting to fall! we ran into the office, got to our desks and went right back to telemarketing wile all hell broke loose outside. itthe rain came down, lightning cracked and the wind howelled for 10 mins and then as soon as it started it was over, the sun came back out and everything dried up! 2 hours later, i got to finally go outside smoke a cig and examine my score..







it was rough but it was all there, a late 1950s-early 1960s zenith, with the famous cobra-matic turntable -idk why but ive always loved the old cobra-matics. the tuber-pre had alot of controls, more than usual, with midrange control, and enhanced stereo settings, i peered into the back and saw some pretty decent looking speakers and ice metal horns, as well as what looked like a hefty tube power amp with big tubes. at first i thought it may have been there TOTL model cause its large size, fancy controls, and nice looking gutz, but i found out later it wasnt.