1964 4001s

dead_in_okc · Post by **dead_in_okc** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:38 pm

Someone sent me this internet pic....I think it's gorgeous....just wanted to share it...

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:31 pm

Who's is it?

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:53 pm

Ah..the Dealey "4001S" if I,m not mistaken. Old heads will remember this from e bay a couple of years ago which was advertised for $6500 as a genuine 4001S...Under closer scrutiny it ended up as "possibly a 4000 conversion"...It never sold as far as I know, even after the price came down. People looking for something like this run a mile in the other direction when the seller seems so vague... Nice bass, but in all probability not a genuine 4001S/RM1999.

dead_in_okc · Post by **dead_in_okc** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:58 pm

A buddy of mine sent me the pic... he said he found it on a website called 'Rickbeat'.....Don't know who owns it....

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:04 pm

very nice tho...

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:25 pm

Wints, this bass was up on ebay several times, as I recall... Each time the reserve and BIN were set so high that no one apparently wanted it. I can't remember precisely why it was judged a 4000 conversion tho...

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:29 pm

Yep it's Dealey's, and if I remember correctly there seemed to be a lot of suspect bids on the auctions.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:53 pm

It's too bad, because if the bass hadn't been converted from a 4000 and left alone it would be a VERY rare bass in itself, and worth big bucks....even with the one pickup.

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:52 am

Here's the Dan Ealey link at Rickbeat where Wayne's buddy found it:
http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4001s/4001s.htm

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:38 am

It has a rounded neck heel instead of square, so that puts it in the later than 1964 category & the jack plate came from a wrecked 1996 from Australia.
I think it did sell eventually.

rickbeat · Post by **rickbeat** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:19 am

Hi!
Wow! I better make some corrections to that page at once!
If this is as you guys say here, it maybe shouldn't be there at all, or at least with the correct information.

Thank you for this info, guys!

Björn

wints · Post by **wints** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:01 pm

Thanks Gerry..I couldn,t remember what the deal was with regard to how it had been faked...Where is it today I wonder??