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Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:41 pm
by Scastles
Anyone here?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rickenbacker-360-Th ... dZViewItem
If this has been posted elsewhere, my apologies. I can't get to everything.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:26 pm
by Ontario_RIC_fan
Not I alas... But I too was watching this auction closely...
I always grab the images of the older guitars.. I have quite a pile of RIC images on my hard-drive now... It is my Rickenbacker porn collection
Odd serial number though? JL199 I think that it was...
Brian
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:39 pm
by Scastles
Beginning in the fall of 1960, RIC simplified their serial numbers. The J represented the year 1960, and the L represented the month, December. By '61 they started back at the beginning of the alphabet with the letter A representing the year. B for '62 and so on. The letters for the production month remained the same.
I think this is how it went. Obviously, it's changed since.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:10 pm
by collin
Not me....I wish. (and Capri's aren't even my bag).
That was a bloody steal for a Capri.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:42 am
by gregga41
buzfluhart wrote: The J represented the year 1960, and the L represented the month, December.
I'm only 6 months older than that guitar. My production number must read JF ###!
That'd be nice to unwrap on Christmas morning.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:58 am
by rick_ovic
I was sorely tempted. That was way too cheap for a Capri.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:10 am
by wints
That was very cheap...
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:22 am
by Scastles
wints wrote:That was very cheap...
Under different times...likely a much different price.
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:36 pm
by jingle_jangle
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:38 pm
by sloop_john_b
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:50 pm
by jps
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:52 pm
by kiramdear
I wasn't asleep. Just broke
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:19 pm
by cjj
I wasn't asleep either. I didn't buy it, woulda if'n I coulda.
But I did add it to the register as a "collected instrument".
Interestingly, the auto serial decoder in the register decided it was a Dec. 1970 instead of Dec 1960 as it should be according to RIC. I guess we'll have to get that fixed...
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:27 pm
by simer4001
Re: Does Someone's Xmas include a 1960 365?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:14 pm
by cjj
simer4001 wrote:
What is Xmas?
I think it's from a song, "Let's put the "X" back in Christmas"...
Song Lyrics