Birth Year Guitar

[Cadorman]

Titanium is only $0.35 per pound right now. I can't even buy a wheelchair with that.

 

[eSGEe]

I guess since I have multiple replacement parts I would consider a Custom Shop reissue as equivalent to an actual birth year guitar. I could go for a 1966 reissue SG if they decided to make one.

 

[eSGEe]

I've always wanted a birth year guitar, and high school era car.
The perfect guitar would be a 1959 Lester, but now that they're unobtainium, I settled for an old Harmony, that I got in pieces.
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Not quite what I had in mind, but it is a 1959 from what I could tell from the faded inked model numbers inside.
The car would have to be a gold1977 Trans Am, but it would never be.
Ended up graduating high school in a 76 Gremlin instead.

this languished at the Misfits Farm for a spell ...... it makes AMAZING jazzy noises

 

[Hackmaster]

Now if it was the Gremlin X with the 401 that would be cool. I knew a guy that had a blue one that would run mid-twelves in the quarter all day long.

It was indeed a Gremlin X, red with white stripes, but it had the lowly 232 straight six.

 

[Astral Traveler]

I've got two that arebolder than me and a bunch that are younger. I never cared about hitting my birth year.

 

[SG John]

Holy i didnt catch the signature! Yeah no kidding they rule

I don't see the reasoning for so many signature models of a guitar that was already a signature model. And, mine has his real signature.

 

[Clockworkmike]

I don't see the reasoning for so many signature models of a guitar that was already a signature model. And, mine has his real signature.


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Doesnt get more authentic than that!

 

[Thatbastarddon]

What about “birth year“ amps?

 

[Clockworkmike]

What about “birth year“ amps?

That would definitely cooler lol

 

[Ghostman]

This is funny. I was just thinking about posting a thread about birth year guitars. LOL

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Why does it seem like it's so important to some people to have a guitar made in the year they were born?

Some people like to do the same thing with their cars. Mine would have to be a '64

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Same here, my birth year is 76 and nobody wants a 76 anything!

You SURE YARG? Check out that bad boy in the Middle!!!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

none here got one that close (1970 LEs Paul Recording Guitar) Im a '69 model..... have a '62 EBO bass..... 2 70's era Peaveys ......but that is as close as I get nothing SPOT on a '69 ...the rest are 80's and up

69 Z28 with 302 and M22 Rock Crusher for me.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Of course my birth year had cool cars like '64 Impalas.

 

[Metal89]

I don't know... i wouldn't say no to someone giving me an 89 Jackson, Gibson, Charvel, or any shredder type guitars...

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

and Mustangs

 

[Metal89]

What Impala???

i second that!!!

 

[Don O]

i second that!!!

That was my first thought too. My dad was in the satellite business and back in the mid 70’s TRW built a bird and took this marketing pic. The guys called it “What Satellite?”

 

[Metal89]

I love how it says PERFECT right in the money zone....

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Ummm....what were we talking about again? No really....

I didn't even notice that....holy crap!