Price check: original 5F6-A chassis

You may not like the answer, but if the chassis is all there and the trannies are good, $1500+ is a good starting point.

 

One thing to keep in mind: very rarely would someone pull a good working chassis and set it aside. I would assume it has one or more blown transformers, and that it needs other electronic work and new tubes.

 

I have an original Bassman Cab from 1959 with a
perfect tube chart. The cab was re-covered by Greg Hopkins
at Vintage Amp Restoration.

Find out what year the chassis is from.

 

Hell yeah we've found them! last October i saw an online add for a couple old amps in someones basement 50$.
One was a POS older Canadian brand and the other was a 59 Super 5F4 cobbled into a fender blackface headbox.
I immediately saw it for what it was and though 150 miles away had a good friend go over and grab it.
It works perfectly after a little TLC and a new Rodgers cab.
Go for it but friend or not it's business don't pay an arm and a leg he's too lazy to do the leg work so why should you?It's going to cost X over and above and your taking the risk.

 

Yes I have done this as well. A couple of years ago I found a Tweed Pro Chassis stuck in a crappy head cab on Craigs List for $500. I ran right over to check it out and found it was sort of sealed in its head case so I couldn't see the guts. The kid says it's been recapped and it sounds like like a tweed so I take a shot and offer him $400 and he says fine.
Now I originally wanted to rehab it with a vintage cab and spent the next year searching for one with no luck. I was just about to pull the trigger on a new repro cab when low and behold I see an ad on CL that says "53 Tweed Pro Cab no chassis".
I just about creamed my jeans when I saw it right here in town. Well I couldn't get over there fast enough and bought it on the spot. But looking at it I realized it had a different cutout size. He swore it was a Pro cab and he used to have the amp too but left it with someone in CA. 20 yrs ago. The cab had all original Tweed and some provenance on the inside mentioning a country band from the 60's. although it was a little beat up still good for 60 yrs old. I believed it to be a Bassman cab, without a tube chart its hard to tell. Any way I spent another 8-10 months searching for a vintage chassis to put in the cab and finally gave up on that and decided to go ahead and put my Pro into it.
Now I have already been flamed on this before so I can take it. haha
Yes I had my Cabinet guy ( a very good spkr cab builder here in the PDX metro area named Lynn Axtell,you can google him) take the Tweed cab and peel back the Tweed and redo the chassis cutout to fit my Pro then re-glue the Tweed and Viola I have an "almost real" Vintage 52' Tweed Pro Wide panel.
Now obviously this isn't as real as the real thing but it's damn close and truly all vintage. So I am very happy to get a "Players" Pro

as always YMMV etc.

peace Kirk

 

Oh and also I have just $650 total in it so far. I may have to have a little work done down the line but nothing major.
I think this would easly sell in the $1500-$2000 range so I think it was a great investment not to mention it sounds freaking awesome!