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Title: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: DummyLoad on July 04, 2011, 02:21:57 pm

...for sale in austin, tx, USA area... if ya'll just hasta have one...

http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/2476076464.html (http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/2476076464.html)

don't know if any amp would actually be worth 6500.00USD...

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: Jack1962 on July 05, 2011, 11:59:35 am

there isn't a amp made worth $6500  :laugh:

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: G._Hoffman on July 05, 2011, 03:40:31 pm

Quote from: Jack1962 on July 05, 2011, 11:59:35 am

there isn't a amp made worth $6500  :laugh:

Well, according to the Market, there clearly are amps worth more than $6,500.  My friend's Dumble, for instance, is worth quite a lot more than that. 

Now, that PARTICULAR amp, I don't know, but unless you want to do away with capitalism, there are any number of amps worth that much or more.  If you can come up with a better system, I'd be all for it - the current system has an awful lot of problems, to be sure.  I just haven't heard of one yet.


Gabriel

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: bigsbybender on July 05, 2011, 04:16:39 pm

Austin is a place for high market price.... High incomes, large music scene = $$$$  If I needed one I'd build it for a few hundred bucks.

Where I'm at since it doesn't have multi-effects and channel switching, these clowns wouldn't know what to do with it..... that and $6500 is an ample down payment on a large house here.

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: John on July 05, 2011, 04:27:11 pm

Any item is worth exactly what people are willing to pay. ;)

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: DummyLoad on July 05, 2011, 05:00:48 pm

Well, according to the Market, there clearly are amps worth more than $6,500.  My friend's Dumble, for instance, is worth quite a lot more than that. 

true.

Any item is worth exactly what people are willing to pay.

absolutely! a good friend just forked out ~400K for a ferrari 599 GTO. i keep telling myself, it's just a car... yeah, right...

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: G._Hoffman on July 06, 2011, 03:16:36 am

Quote from: DummyLoad on July 05, 2011, 05:00:48 pm

Any item is worth exactly what people are willing to pay.

absolutely! a good friend just forked out ~400K for a ferrari 599 GTO. i keep telling myself, it's just a car... yeah, right...

Well, I'm a bicyclist and a public and human powered transit activist, and even I know that something like that is more than just a car.  It's not something I would ever even consider spending my money on, but they are works of extraordinary craftsmanship. 


Gabriel

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: Ritchie200 on July 06, 2011, 04:27:33 am

I could have purchased the amplifier that Ritchie Blackmore tossed off the stage at the California Jam that was repaired and used for the rest of his time with Purple and Rainbow for $7500.  If I had the jack, I would buy it in a nano-second - but that's me.  I'm sure there are others who would tell me I'm crazy and rather have that Park or Dumble.  Different strokes!

And even the poor man's Ferrari is a work of art, both sitting still or going ~130 across the yard of bricks at Indianapolis.  Worth every drop of blood, sweat, and tear.  An engineering marvel 20 years ahead if its time.

Title: Re: 1966 100W Park Amp.
Post by: zendragon63 on July 06, 2011, 11:38:40 pm

I (un)fortunately have become too practical to really enjoy a $6500 Park or a $7500 reconditioned piece-of-history Blackmore Marshall. (Not to mention that I really haven't developed the phenominal playing talent either  :icon_biggrin:).

But just a car...not on your life! Regards

dennis