Fate or kismet ?

[hermitcrab]

was at work yesterday, and had to deliver a new car to a customer and pick up the loaner they had... when I got there, the guy was in the garage and called me in , I immediately noticed he had some old electronic stuff stacked up in the garage , I mentioned that I was also in to old vintage stuff ... then he asked if I had a few minutes and led me down into his basement... and my mind was immediately blown as I saw multitudes of stuff , he had 5 jukeboxes all restored , he had a stack of receivers from 60's and 70's Marantz, pioneer , Fisher, etc and Disc jockey and pro turntables , also he had R2R's 10" and 7 " and showed me stuff like the RCA cassette system from the 50's with the players NIB!, also showed me a RCA 45 player I had never seen before a single slot player NIB! all his stuff was top of the line stuff no junk... and then he asked if I wanted a couple Sony R2R players from the local college , which I took , but what were the odds of meeting a stranger that is into the same kind of stuff , we exchanged numbers and promised to keep in touch ... here is a pic from the web of that single slot player ...

[William]

Wow, Elton, that was some find. I hope the two of you can stay in touch and maybe you could invite him to check out the forum.

Bill

[TC Chris]

What a good encounter! What models are the Sonys?
Chris Campbell

[macgolf]

What a great chance encounter! Sometime you find them, sometime they find you! Thanks for sharing this story.

Mark

[hermitcrab]

What a good encounter! What models are the Sonys?
Chris Campbell

He gave me 3 TC-105 models from Delta college, mono machines that were used in classrooms... 2 work , 1 is a parts machine ... but the price was right, I told him if he gets tired of one of his 10" R2R to let me know, he also claimed to have a RCA console in the shed along with other stuff ...

[TC Chris]

Delta College... I'm grinning because I called Dore Demolition before they tore down Bay City's Empire Theater to see if the big rack of commercial RCA tube amps might still be in the projection booth.

Chris Campbell

[William]

I take it the answer was NO.

Bill