Yea I had looked at a new one and was told only the beige ones were available from Fender atm ( or so the shop said) and as I have a policy of burning anything that even resembles beige a paint job would have been needed. When this came up for 1/2 new price ( was missing the trem arm but a strat one fits if I ever want it) I couldnt refuse. It has a odd bunch of strings on it as the previous owner was looking for a dgent machine. Will get a new set of strings this week.
Doc, its a bass 6 bit longer than a strat