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Thunderbird Club

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Ok, it had a repaint. Marshall must have been involved.

No frets, so I'm guessing Willy's.
 
Was yellow a stock T-Bird color? I love yellow basses and it especially looks good with chrome.

Bob, when new it was "Classic White" kind of a cream color, it was the first Thunderbird I'd seen in years (this was 1989 and I knew nothing about them being disco'd and reissued), I had to have it but it was all of $880.00 new at the time. To buy it I sold several of my late father's rifles that he had given to me ( My wife hated them and I'm not a hunter) and a Kramer Flying Vee bass - It dove like a Stuka over Poland!
Looked like this here:
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It’s mine now.
Fantastic!

…. and thanks @GBassNorth for posting (and enabling). I just got a tobacco-burst ‘01 a week or so ago and was going down the road of how to change it to white nitro, but this is cheaper, prevents me from defiling a fine instrument, and adds another bass to my way oversized collection.
Really need to part with some of this stuff….
Just doing my job sir. I love spending other people’s money!

Somehow seems like divine intervention that I grabbed the white Eppi on white Wednesday
Just one more example of - You don’t choose a Tbird, it chooses you!


I think Kara's a probably maybe. I'm the tentative maybe. Have we got a maybe maybe?
I’ll take “maybe maybe”.
 
If I can drive down, I'll bring 'Birds, of course, and either the original 360 or Grexa reissue. Probably not both. I may be a knuckle dragger, but I'm not that big a knuckle dragger.

It would be awesome if you could motor down. Will!
 

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