I'd like to take credit, but my brother really deserves the kudos for putting in the travel and leg work.
This Zenith G730 was a $5.00 wreck; knobs and tubes missing, solider joints and dial cord broken, grill cloth torn and the scarred cabinet finished in a thick coat of white house paint. Total abuse. The P.O. said it was used as a door stop.
We stripped and sanded it down to bare wood and just for kicks, took it to a customer of ours who makes custom furniture. He wanted a 'crack' at refinishing the cabinet and promised it would look better than anything we could do ourselves. He was right. Look at that beautiful grain!
Digging through our spare parts, we pieced together a complete, fully functioning chassis that's waiting to slide into this, and found some really nice knobs too. Still looking for a clean dial lens, but the original would probably clean up nicely with a bit of elbow grease and Mothers plastic polish. Not really sure where to source the grill material, but we'll come up with something. One old Zenith, dead and buried, will return to the fold!