Hi All

I'm a new boy on here and i'm currently finding myself drifting off frequently and daydreaming about finding my perfect rock ola princess under a blanket in the back of an old pub or something...

I frequent a lambretta forum and we often hear of people stumbling upon scooters in sheds and barns and it always makes me drool.

So.... What have you found and where????

Go on.....Make me jealous

I look forward to hearing your tales.....

Cheers

Jon

Good one Jon!
I found my Princess through a guy I was doing some work for about 20 years ago. It came out in conversation in the Pub, He said he had two old Jukeboxes that he didn't want, and he had already given away a Seeburg KD. But he still had the Princess. It was in lovely condition and I kept it in my kitchen for 10 years. Unfortunatley had to sell it to raise funds.

Before the 'ternet I used to look for them in the 'small ads' in the local paper. I found 8 Rock-olas that way. The interesting thing was they were all 70's models and ALL of them had the same operators sticker on the back! So I must have got all his 70's stock.

Best 'near miss' was antique dealer in the midlands who I used to pop in and see as he used to have 'Bandits' and fairground stuff. One week I was passing by and did'nt go in. The next week he had an advert in a now defunct mag which said he had 2 working Ami Continentals at £350 each. (This was when they were about £2,000).

Then there was the time I went to see an operator to get a Wurlitzer 2900 hide-away and his shop had been fire bombed!!

Ross

Hi Ross,

Can you remember who the operator was?
I used to come across MHG, HGM, Toby Sound, Bass Leisure, Dransfield's and Associated Leisure machines.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Hi Alan,
Sorry too long ago, all I can remember is it was somebody I knew of in the High Wycombe area. I remember they were still operating when I was coming across their old machines.

The operator who was 'fire bombed' was on the Isle of Sheppy.

I also got my RoweAmi R80 from an operator in Derby in the early 90's again cannot remember the name. I think I got a wallbox and digital stepper for it from you.

Regards
Ross

Hi Ross,

It was 11/7/1997 you bought a Rowe Ami Wallette transformer, a 1100 idler wheel and the turntable motor grommets.

Have you still got the R-80? we still work on these and are always repairing the amplifiers for them that are still out there.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man

Hi Alan
Very impressed!
Yes all working OK, because the R80 sounds so good I will never sell it, I have my 70s-90s records on it.
Also the wallbox wiring is built into the walls of my dining room!
I have your details in the jukebox.

For future reference do you do amp/CD repairs for the CD100 series?

Regards
Ross

My best buy was from Bell Fruit in Northampton, 1475 Tempo 1-1485Tempo 2 and an Empress200, £200 each! but this was in 1988, also a Wurlitzer 700 and a 1015 from Graham Bean in Leicester, he was one of the first people to have a jukebox shop in the 1970s!.

Several years ago I worked with children in their homes for a special education.
One day while telling the parents about the schedule the doorbell rang. The door was opened and I heard "Hildegard, there is somebody asking for you." Having a big question mark in my face I walked to the door. There was a man standing asking if the VW bus with the Wurlitzer sign belonged to me. I said "Yes".
He invited me into his house a few meters away to check for a jukebox he had. He said that they wanted to get rid of it because the house should be torn down.
After finishing my work I went there and got a 1977 Wurlitzer Baltic for free.
This was in the mid 1990s.

Hildegard

loving the stories!

Hello Ross,

Yes I do repairs on the 250 watt amplifiers and have a rig for testing CD3, CDM4, CDM12 etc.

Jon,

A few years ago I had an enquiry to repair some Rowe Ami R-84 boards, these I tested and repaired but the customers was still having issues, these boards were fitted in the rear end of a Mini, (you may have seen the same done to a Thunderbird or was it a pink Cadilac).
As it turned out the customer had a house and a B&B that we used to walk past at Hope Cove in Devon when we go there on holiday. When we went on holiday that year arrange were made and I had a busman's holiday. Fixed the problem which was an internal loom wiring issue.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man