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Ok it's Solid State but it sure looks cool as hell!

http://www.musicgoround.com/gear/inventorydetails.asp?id=574658

Mitch, if Fender EVER built a dog, this was the Bichon Frise of amps.

Paul, if they are like the below, then they are such CUTE little amps, with that two-channel white face! Are you saying that Fender actually built them to look like a little white plastic dog?

Here is the whole line-up at a 1968 Fender trade show booth:

Nope, but the term "li'l yapper" does come to mind.

A friend on another forum bought it.He had this to say about this amp:

"The legend goes that a light burnt out on one at NAMM back in the day and nobody could figure out how to change it.

I believe they were designed by a guy who was an aerospace engineer"

Re: The lineup...talk about complete disregard for tradition. CBS' influence; no--domination--is quite obvious. There is a lesson here which few seem to have learned.

I just read a feature in The Economist on "the branding of China". Now even the Chinese are discarding their history in the interest of the Almighty Buck.

Long ago I had seen/heard the "Bassman" model on two occasions,one being a bar band, and the other,Chris Hillman using one in a Gram Parsons era Byrds concert.Both times they sounded good and loud.And lasted out the evening's performances.

I recall these amps being the reason one of the pre-CBS bigwigs left Fender. Forrest White, Don Randall maybe?

It looks a bit like an air conditioner.

John, I think this was the situation where CBS developed them and Forrest White refused to sign off on production because they were so badly designed and production-engineered.