Knock-Offs, Rip-Offs, and Just Plain UGLY!

[captsandwich]

As I sit here writing this from my "office" at an "art school", I can feel my mind is just fine...

...I think...

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

[jingle_jangle]

Hal? You there???

[kiramdear]

My very point.

[jingle_jangle]

Not to change the topic, here, but...

THIS THING'S UGLY, STUPID, WAAAAAYYYY OVERPRICED, AND JUST PLAIN END OF YEAR OFFENSIVE!

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-OLD-STOCK-GIBSO ... 4|294%3A50

Seventeen Thousand Dollars! Come and get it!

Can somebody tell me what the frick a '60 Corvette has to do with a dopey Gibson "limited edition" (there's that excuse for a ripoff phrase, yet again...

[Ric O'Sound]

THIS THING'S UGLY, STUPID, WAAAAAYYYY OVERPRICED, AND JUST PLAIN END OF YEAR OFFENSIVE!

Not only that, but one thing that sets off the warning sirens in my head is the fact that the seller claims it's NOS and has never been sold, yet it's located in Taiwan. I'm not so sure that Gibson had any authorized dealers in Taiwan in 1960. So if the guitar was never sold, how did it wind up in Taipei?

The seller seems appears to have a decent feedback record, though. But I'd stay away from that thing just the same...simply because it's absolutely hideous.

[jingle_jangle]

Daniel, this is a 1960 Corvette Commemorative Gibson...dates from the last very few years, not 1960. I'm not a Gibson expert, so I don't know the year this hunkajunk was originally minted. As to whether it's NOS or not, I think that's secondary to the fact that Gibson made only 200 of these and anybody would be fool enough to buy one for any reason.

It seems that only a collector would even consider acquiring one of these, possibly as an investment.

(I've hit all the marketing buzzwords above with italics...but an investment? C'mon...but America is the nexus of moneyed yet stupid collectors on Planet Earth, it seems.)

Nobody in their right mind would buy one of these as a player. And as an attractive conversation piece? Well, it's not attractive, and I would think the conversation would consist of the collector's buddies leaving his place, making circular motions with the forefingers of their right hands near their right temporal areas.

Maybe these guys are moneyed and crazy enough:

[ozover50]

Hmmm...... would look great with a dash mounted clock just behind the bridge...........

[ben_brown]

...and a 4 speed wammy bar!

[jps]

Does that 4 speed wammy bar have a Hurst shifter handle on it?

[ben_brown]

I'm sure it does....
The question is...is it white or is it black?

[jingle_jangle]

That's a Hurst shifter ball. Huge, macho...available in either white or black. Hurst also made a handle...it was sand-cast, about 6" wide, and available either polished or coated with a weird tan flocking (for those cold winter days at the strip...)

[wayang]

Yup, I recall it well...a friend in my high school drum section had the polished handle 'Hurst' trick-shifter on his '68 GTO...

(...which also sported 'Cyclone Purple Hornies', for those who can remember back that far...)

[jingle_jangle]

Cyclone Purple Hornies were tube headers...

[brammy]

[jingle_jangle]

The ridiculous lengths people go to, just to get

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