If you saw this tread in the For Sale section: https://boomboxery.com/forum/index.php/topic/21905-disco-lite-boombox-in-santa-maria/ then your aware of this strange story.
First and Foremost, THANK YOU Milosancho for posting the link. You got some Positive Boomboxery Karma coming your way brother!
Now, the long story.....
So, yesterday I sold my little yellow Toyota MR2. It was my daily driver, but wouldn't pass smog in California (because this state is LAME) and required $1000 worth of parts and service. So I sold it to a guy in Colorado.
I got home after a long day of delivering the car out to Los Angeles, got on line, came here to Boomboxery and looked at the "For Sale" section only to see the post above.
A Discolite listed on CL for $20
I was PISSED! My other car is not registered (I do that this weekend) and my truck gets 6 miles to the gallon. The radio was listed in Santa Maria, about 100+ miles north of me.
For the hell of it, I texted the guy, no reply. I called, no answer and his voice mail said it had not been set up yet. I emailed. No replay.
Fatdog posted in the sales thread "SCAM ALERT" and I figured the same and wrote it off.
I go to bed late every night, last night at 1am. My wife gets up at 5am for work every morning and for some reason I got up with her. At about 5:20am I got a text message! I always keep my phone on the charger down stairs in the Boom Room at night, so if I wouldn't have been up, I would not have heard it....VERY WEIRD!
I replied and he replied back! I told him how far away I was and he told me he would let me have it for $15 without me even asking. He said to meet him at the Costco in Santa Maria at 6pm. I told him I would be there, even though I had no idea on how to get there!
By this time my wife had already left for work so I called her and told her the deal and asked if she could come home from work early and let me use her car. Needless to say SHE WAS PISSED because I asked her to do the same yesterday so she could pick me up after selling my car!
OK, all was set!
Then I get a text from the seller around 11:00am....someone offered him $100
I texted back "Damn, I really wanted to come get it". Being a stand up guy, he asked if I could do $50! I told him yes and that I would be there at 6:00pm.
Wifey got home at 3:30, I jumped in the car and headed north. Took 2 hours and got there a half hour early.
He rolled up on time and had the radio. He told me he worked at a car junk yard and he found it in a junk car. So it was free to him. I gave him the money, grabbed the box and was gone in 2 minutes!
SO, the radio!
It's semi rough. Missing all but 1 EQ slider and missing 2 buttons. Deck 1 plays, but shuts off automatically and eats the tape. Deck 2 plays great, but the door fall's off. Radio works, but the tuning knob slips when you turn it. All the little lights work, but none of the speaker center lights work. Antenna is broken (only half) and there is no battery door. Plays on AUX fine.
But the sound is good and strong (stronger than the carrying handle
)
Anyway....I GOT A DISCOLITE!
BTW, I know the build quality of these is so so, but I have to say, THIS THING ROCKS! The sound is very good and the EQ works good enough to really bring in the sound! I LOVE IT!
NEXT: The full rebuild treatment
View attachment 10910
If anyone has some of the parts I need, please PM me!
First and Foremost, THANK YOU Milosancho for posting the link. You got some Positive Boomboxery Karma coming your way brother!
Now, the long story.....
So, yesterday I sold my little yellow Toyota MR2. It was my daily driver, but wouldn't pass smog in California (because this state is LAME) and required $1000 worth of parts and service. So I sold it to a guy in Colorado.
I got home after a long day of delivering the car out to Los Angeles, got on line, came here to Boomboxery and looked at the "For Sale" section only to see the post above.
A Discolite listed on CL for $20
I was PISSED! My other car is not registered (I do that this weekend) and my truck gets 6 miles to the gallon. The radio was listed in Santa Maria, about 100+ miles north of me.For the hell of it, I texted the guy, no reply. I called, no answer and his voice mail said it had not been set up yet. I emailed. No replay.
Fatdog posted in the sales thread "SCAM ALERT" and I figured the same and wrote it off.
I go to bed late every night, last night at 1am. My wife gets up at 5am for work every morning and for some reason I got up with her. At about 5:20am I got a text message! I always keep my phone on the charger down stairs in the Boom Room at night, so if I wouldn't have been up, I would not have heard it....VERY WEIRD!
I replied and he replied back! I told him how far away I was and he told me he would let me have it for $15 without me even asking. He said to meet him at the Costco in Santa Maria at 6pm. I told him I would be there, even though I had no idea on how to get there!
By this time my wife had already left for work so I called her and told her the deal and asked if she could come home from work early and let me use her car. Needless to say SHE WAS PISSED because I asked her to do the same yesterday so she could pick me up after selling my car!
OK, all was set!
Then I get a text from the seller around 11:00am....someone offered him $100
I texted back "Damn, I really wanted to come get it". Being a stand up guy, he asked if I could do $50! I told him yes and that I would be there at 6:00pm.
Wifey got home at 3:30, I jumped in the car and headed north. Took 2 hours and got there a half hour early.
He rolled up on time and had the radio. He told me he worked at a car junk yard and he found it in a junk car. So it was free to him. I gave him the money, grabbed the box and was gone in 2 minutes!
SO, the radio!
It's semi rough. Missing all but 1 EQ slider and missing 2 buttons. Deck 1 plays, but shuts off automatically and eats the tape. Deck 2 plays great, but the door fall's off. Radio works, but the tuning knob slips when you turn it. All the little lights work, but none of the speaker center lights work. Antenna is broken (only half) and there is no battery door. Plays on AUX fine.
But the sound is good and strong (stronger than the carrying handle
)Anyway....I GOT A DISCOLITE!
BTW, I know the build quality of these is so so, but I have to say, THIS THING ROCKS! The sound is very good and the EQ works good enough to really bring in the sound! I LOVE IT!
NEXT: The full rebuild treatment
View attachment 10910
If anyone has some of the parts I need, please PM me!
Right about now, Yoda would be telling me, "That is why you failed." 
