It's certainly functional and serves its purpose well, so I wouldn't say its ugly.
Now, if they could have only worked out how to incorporate a similar ring for a neck pickup at the same time....
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It's certainly functional and serves its purpose well, so I wouldn't say its ugly.
Now, if they could have only worked out how to incorporate a similar ring for a neck pickup at the same time....
Found a terrible pic of the banana bass I rescued. Looks different again in terms of setup to the previous pics - but it did come to me as parts in a box.
http://i.imgur.com/bpEMQFsl.jpg
Saw this at cashies yesterday. Would make a neat prop in a panel van show car.
http://i.imgur.com/ITYVle3l.jpg
you'd sell that to some tiki bar in Melbourne or Sydney for $500.
My local music shop has a surfboard lappy that looks like the twin of that one
It would have to be Sandman Van to keep with the theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
It'd have to be a Drifter to maintain my brand loyalty :)
http://i.imgur.com/D3jdaaW.jpg
Not bad. Sadly I was old enough to remember these when they came out but still a few years off legal driving age. That golf club head gear shift knob was way ahead of it's time.
Eventually I bought a Ford XA 500 Van (plain jane, not surfer cool) with 302 ci and 4 speed manual box. Went way too fast and had at least 2 very, very scary moments where I look back and consider myself lucky to be alive.
For a while I had a Regal Sedan for a work car, went like a rocket in a straight line but didn't steer or stop
I grew up restoring European cars with my Dad, I stumbled on my first val in the mid 90s and have had one in some form or another ever since. Currently entering the home stretch on a VJ regal build. Starting to think guitars are are more practical thing to mod and restore, so it might be my last one for a while.
Hey Sonic sounds cool. I've been to many Chrysler shows in Perth. Can you please post a pic of your VJ
I grew up in a ford family, but my first car was a 318CI VH Charger. Still miss that car (but not the manual steering, steering box and bodgy 4 Barrel Holley.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
My first was a VJ XL Charger with a 265 and 110mm Carter Single Barrel. Spent a lot of time sideways in that car ,mostly unintentionally.
Would love to own another.
Oh Dear- I've started a Valiant appreciation thread :) I've always found everyone has a Val related story once they find out I'm into them. The common feature is 'went like the clappers'. I really only have photos of the ones I've owned since digital cameras became a thing- there are some others gathering dust here somewhere. Anyway
My Current Project 'Shiggles' - total rebuild of everything with family and dog proof paint job so we can cruise and park in parking lots without stress: http://i.imgur.com/Ksm80uEl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DsWC7BSl.jpg
Same Car about 8 years ago - was my daily in Darwin for ages http://i.imgur.com/B1v8Q5Yl.jpg
My Hardtop - Owned for about 5 years also in Darwin and why I hate looking after nice paint jobs http://i.imgur.com/ylmK3Nul.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Z9zPENDl.jpg
(I really want to build a telecaster in this colour)
My very first val circa 95ish
http://i.imgur.com/OQsB73Sl.jpg
There is a Charger XL and couple of others in between there as well, but no idea where the pics are.
Great collection Sonic. We better continue the discussion in the Hobbies thread. These cars certainly don't belong in an ugly thread. Is that a matt black paint job on the VJ ? came up brilliant ! Love the hardtop is that a VG? you are right a tele in that colour would look awesome
Yes- sorry for derailing the thread! Yep hardtop is VG with some custom features- yeah I reckon a Tele with off white binding. The Vj is a satin paint job as its easier to keep looking good than matt (which attracts heaps of dust)
haha no worries Sonic, thread jacking is pretty common here and the ugly thread isn't very serious like a build diary or a tutorial.
Don't know if this qualifies as a guitar but it has six strings, 19th century lyre made from a human skull, antelope horn, skin, gut and hair.
Unsure if it's available as a kit.
This is similar to what I was running,
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haha the Valiant/Charger theme won't die on this thread. Nice beast Franky, so it had a 318ci V8 would have been nice to drive
I could pass everything but a gas station....Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
I see the skull has those upgraded tuners too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricardo
haha classic saying Franky
NSW Highway Patrol had them at the time they came out and in a straight line there was no chance of outrunning them. Twisty bits sorted them out but vague steering in most aussie cars of the day was quite common.
Biggest embarrassment I ever had in the 302 was being blown off at a set of lights by an Alfa 1750 GTV. Ended up owning a 1750 Berlina (4dr sedan) and Alfetta 2000 sedan. Strangely enough Rust was not an optional extra and came fitted as standard from the factory. Quick cars for a 4 cylinder and put many Aussie so called muscle cars to shame, particularly when encountering twists and turns. Shame about the terminal cancer (rust) that was so common in most of them.
Alright - my latest offering - I present the Krundaal Bikini...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7779/1...6e2cdac5_b.jpg
This abomination came across my newsfeed on facebook today... and whilst I'm a staunch advocate for the BassVI this one is just a step too far.
what you reckon its a 25.5 inch and 30 inch scale in the one axe BG ?
Both halves are so right, but together they are just so wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Bass Guy
Yep, that'd be my guess Wokka.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
If the top is traditional Jaguar it will be 24" scale. (Jaguars and Mustangs have short scale)
And yes I'd have it.
It must be the week for it. Ladeeez aaan gennlemen, I give you the unmitigated horror that is the Fender Performer bass.
Ugh. Not a redeeming feature to be found.
I kinda like the body shape, but the headstock? A definite 7.5 on the yuckometer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass Guy
unusual for Fender to produce an ugly axe but have to agree it belongs in this thread
A quick google showed it on a display with a Fender CoA so that is just weirdQuote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Presumably an '80s bass? "OK, we'll give it a heavy metal body, but then we'll use up some stuff left over from the mid '60s and paint it to match".
There was also a Performer guitar.
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Apparently they were made in Japan from '85-'86 at the time in the '80s when Fender had been sold to FMIC from CBS and had no US manufacturing facilities, and both the bass and guitar were supposedly produced from leftover scrap wood from Japanese manufactured Fender Stratocasters.
Both guitar and bass had the micro-tilt neck, and as a result, only light gauge strings were recommended for the bass.
http://youtu.be/6ShbWhTH3N0
The guitar (at least - not sure about the bass) also had a stacked 250k + 1M tone pot with a centre detent, so possibly the first appearance of the TBX tone control, though not marketed as such.
Wise words from John Page, the designer of the Performer Bass and leading light of Fender's Custom Shop.
"Yes the Performer was one of my designs. Believe it or not, the Performer bass (designed before the guitar) was designed to be the Elite version of the*Jazz Bass... yes that's right... it was going to be the top version of the Jazz Bass... scary huh? The shape of the instrument is derivative of the back of the Strat. Look at the waist cut on the back of the Strat and you'll see where the basic horn/body shape started. At the time (1982-3ish?) I was designing this, Fender was considered a pretty conservative instrument.*Kramer,*BC Rich*and Jackson*were building these radically styled instruments, so we wanted to get into that market. In my original design, it used a Strat-style peghead and the pickups were a double Strat humbucking setup. I also designed the*Fender logo on the Performer... I can't say that that['s] a good thing, but it was kinda cool to design a new Fender logo. We got some comments that it looked like the Peavey*logo, which really pissed me off.
The guitar that was produced was different than the original that I designed. I initially designed it to be made in the US, but it ended up being made in Japan. When that transition happened, things were changed. The peghead went from the Strat to the Swinger, for example, so I don't remember what pickup they actually went with. I angled the pickups to thicken up the top end a bit... and it looked cool. Well, at least to me, I like "off-line aesthetics". Why weren't they successful? Look, I was a designer in Fender R&D for years before I started the CS. I was always trying to design something new and different. When we started the CS, I tried to do the same. Reality is, the public wants Strats, Teles, P & J basses from Fender. So it's really tough to get them to accept any "new & different" designs in any great quantities. I'm afraid I have no idea how many were actually produced.
I designed the five string version when I first came back to start the CS in '87. To the best of my knowledge there was only one prototype made by*Fuji Gen Gakki. It was kind of a pinkish color and had the same basic features of the 4 string Japanese model. When I initially designed both basses, the [pickups] were modified Mustang coils, wound beefier and wired to be humbucking. When the four string version was released it used a single coil p/u under each cover. The original also was designed with an angular/massive/fine-tuning bridge, and a "lightning bolt" styled string tree. Both were prototyped but never released. I never heard of any instruments being destroyed for any legal issues... maybe another one of those "legends"? The idea behind the neck was simple, at the time a lot of bass players were guitar player converts. Bass playing style started to have more of a "lead guitar" approach, so the idea of a narrower neck was to help along those lines. The original proto[type] went on the summer before it was released with the then "hottest" bands, Billy Idol (I don't remember his bass player's name) and The CARS bass player, Ben Orr."
I was just about to type the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Didn't watch the review vid but Scott Grove is an "interesting" person, had a bit of correspondence with him when he was on TDPRI