A beast on CL
 

I would so totally get this one if I had the room!
Someone has to save this!!!

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/ele/561103184.html

Looks like a nasty caterac on it :( ... I'm trying to decide.. SS or tube amp, but i bet it has some decent speakers in it...

Here's the page of a curtis mathes catalog showing b/w version of that (their biggest) console. According to an earlier page in the catalog it's a tube amp, and the tuner and amp are both on the same chassis. But it makes a big deal about the new "all solid state stereophonic 4 track tape recorder".

I'm sure that was the shiznitz in its day. Worthy of a full restoration!

"Color Convertible
 

What does "Color Convertible" mean in the ad?

OMG!!! I've never seen anything like that before. It is as long as my living room! This is sure to make some ones wife or GF quite angry when she sees it! LOL!! But still worth saving, she'll get over it! I wish it were in WI.

What a unit!! Looks like maybe the television section could be swapped out for a color chassis and tube upon request and another several hundred or maybe a thousand $$$$. That unit on Craigslist may have been converted; who knows?? Only thing I can think of. Defiinitely worth restoring though.

It doesn't decribe anywhere in that book I have what the "color conversion" is. I would assume that is the "color converted" unit up there on CL. Someone should pick this thing up, if anything just so we can see what color chassis they used, I would expect they just swapped in the RCA CTC-15 chassis with a different tuner, like in my Philco. Too far away for me though.

That big beast looks to me to be a Zenith and not a Curtis Mathis. I've had a couple of Zenith consoles that look like this minus the TV, and they are VERY nice. Tube amp and tube tuner with a pair of nice Jensen horn tweeters and twelve inch Zenith woofers. If I weren't 2500 miles away I'd grab it!!

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Oh man you are in for it! My wife would kick my so hard my grandparents would feel it!

That thing's a monster...

Put 4 wheels on it and it'll double as your car...

4 wheels?............. 16 wheels for interstate haulage!

I dated a girl in the 60's whose dad bought one of these. The B&W set could be replaced with a color set.

Yes, you got that right... Not "have room for it" but "have A room for it".

If I had 3.5 acres and a big steel building like a friend I know (not in the S.F. Bay Area), I could have all kinds of fun old sets. One nice combo (and smaller sets) is all I had room for here, though.