Here's a link to a Vintage Guitar article on the Voxmobile:
https://www.vintageguitar.com/30171/the-voxmobile/As an early teen I had one of the big 1968 Vox catalogs with the Voxmobile on the back cover, also the smaller '69 "New Sound for the New Scene;" literally wore them out. I still have the '67 fold out promotional. In early '72(?) I ordered a Vox Sovereign Bass amp through the local dealer, Jerry's Guitar Center (no relation to the G.C.), and after waiting a while for it to arrive was told by Jerry Stufflebeam (R.I.P., Jerry!) that the company had gone out of production. I wrote to Vox in Sepulvida about the situation and my love of Vox amps and received a letter from Stan Cutler himself thanking me for my endorsement! I had no idea who he was at the time and have long since lost that along with much of the cool stuff I had in those days.
I'm glad for the opportunity to have seen an actual used Rickenbacker Transonic 100 at another iconic Peoria, IL store, Matthew's Music, around that same time. Who knew these things would become historical artifacts?
Witnessing the fate of many '60s items; hopefully they will find safe homes. To younger relatives and students who play music, the idea of possessing even a Silverface Princeton or a small '60s tube Vox amp (stuff one could take for granted up through the '70s) is pretty amazing for them. They mostly have to settle for Chinese reproductions, however true to the originals they may be.
One of the best things about Rickenbacker is that due to it's family lineage it is simultaneously vintage and contemporary. Not many musical instrument products can make that claim.
by (kryan5732) » Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:43 pm 
