found my dads old guitar amp

[Perogy]

Was digging around in the crawlspace and found my dads old guitar amp. It looked really vintage so I did a little bit of research and it appears to be a fender silverface vibrolux reverb. I am not sure of the exact year , or how I could find that out, (sometime between 1968 and 1982 according to ampwares). I'm very interested to know if anyone knows the approximate value of this amp. I've looked around a bit but haven't been able to find anything. Here's a pic.

[Lucas G]

i've seen them go for a couple grand.

[GlennW]

Look for a six or seven digit number on the speaker frame or magnet, like 220xxx or 137xxx.

It looks like a '70s amp to me.

[SoComSurfing]

A silverface isn't going to be a '62. I think you meant 68-72. In that case, you'll be looking at around a grand to $1300. It looks really clean, so I'd say around the $1300 mark assuming all is original.

[anderbass]

These might help a bit:
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ibrolux+reverb

[Febs]

Originally Posted by Perogy

Here's a pic.

Do you have a picture of the actual amp, rather than the picture from the Ampwares site?

[Perogy]

hmmm if i am reading the right one it seems to be 064121

[coreyfyfe]

the silverface vibrolux reverb was made between 1968 and 1980. complete auctions for on ebay say they typically go for 700-1000 depending on condition/year. yours looks like its probably mid-late 70s since it doesn't have the tail on the fender logo or the aluminum trim around the grill (from the ampwares fender field guide page).

if you look at the check the date codes on the transformers you can get a better date using the chart here:
http://www.fender.com/support/amplifiers.php

[Perogy]

Originally Posted by Febs

Do you have a picture of the actual amp, rather than the picture from the Ampwares site?

unfortunatly all I have access to right now is this crappy cell phone camera, but here is a pic of the actual amp. It's in really good condition.

http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ampix2.jpg

[Perogy]

the transformer number is EIA 606 641, which according to that guide means it was made in 1966, which doesn't make sense since the amp didn't come out until 1968

[chadds]

I see it's plugged in. Hope you're not playing bass through it. Though you could through an ext bass cab bypassing the speakers.

OMG Santa's coming. Gotta Go!!! Pretend I'm asleep.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Originally Posted by Perogy

the transformer number is EIA 606 641, which according to that guide means it was made in 1966, which doesn't make sense since the amp didn't come out until 1968

It makes perfect sense. Fender bought parts in large bulk lots and just re-supplied as they got used up. It's quite COMMON for transformers and pots in CBS Fenders to predate the amp's actual manufacture by a few years.

[Franco Bollo]

I don't know when Fender stopped stamping a date code on the tube chart, but in earlier blackface amps up to 1967, there was a two letter code: the first letter signified the year (starting from 1951) and the second letter signified the month. For example, I have an old Princeton amp with the code "OL". The O is the 15th letter of the alphabet (meaning 1965), and the L is the 12h (meaning December).

This chart, if it exists, will be on the inside of the amp, on one of the sides.

[Busker]

Look on the outer edge of the speaker frame, in the back of the amp. Use a flashlight if you need to. You should see a number on the edge, in white or light-colored ink or paint. It will most likely start with a 220, or 465 (220 is the Jensen speaker company, 465 is Oxford). For example, you might see 220-6837, or 465-7153, or something like that.

You can determine what week and year the speaker was made, and the amp was built usually only weeks or a few months after (sometimes a year or more, but usually weeks or months).