NGD!!! Vintage Fender content

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Jr_vw2

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So I was checking the facebook market place the other day like I always do. Saw an ad that just said Fender guitar with a semi crappy picture. Figured it was squire crap that someone was calling a "fender" but I clicked on the as anyway. Turned out to be a 1978 Fender Bronco... wait....It gets better...... I asked for more pictures and the guy said he didn't have anymore. But from what I could tell it looked pretty clean in the one picture that was posted. So I decided to make the 2 hour drive to go check it out. I get there and he goes in and grabs the guitar and hands it to me and instantly I was thinking to myself....this is a fake. It was so clean. Long story short. This guy was at some buddy holly type event back in 1978 and this guitar was a raffle prize. He won this guitar brand new. But he doesnt play guitar and never had any desire to learn. He liked buddy holly so he kept it on a guitar stand in his house for 41 years. So I am literally the first person to play this guitar. It still had the original strings on it. Came with the manual, cable and cleaning cloth and strap. The manual has the matching serial number on it. So $500 later it's all mine.

https://youtu.be/__PrUDs04yY

1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr



1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr

1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr

1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr


1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr


1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr


1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr


1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr


1978 fender bronco by Jeremy Reichmanner, on Flickr
 
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Awesome deal - you may need to re-host the pics. FYI - Buddy Holly couldn’t have played a Bronco, as they were only around since ‘67 or so (?) and Buddy Holly died quite a bit before that. I’m not up to speed on him, but he may have played an early Duo Sonic or Musicmaster, which is a related ‘student’ guitar in the lineage. I have a ‘78 Bronco neck on a Mustang body of mine, it’s quite a nice neck; thick shape and subtle V.
 
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Holy crap! Congratulations! I am muy, muy jealous!

You should slap those original strings back on and sell it to the highest bidder.
 
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Wow, that's quite a story! Though these guitars are not my cup of tea, but finding it under similarly lucky circumstances, I'd sure think about keeping it. Congrats!
 
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Only gear needs get a truly vintage mint condition unplayed instrument and immediately disassemble it take pictures and post it on the internet.

I'm so incredulous

Nice score

Do you plan on flipping it or playing it?

I vote play
 
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ehdwuld said:
Only gear needs get a truly vintage mint condition unplayed instrument and immediately disassemble it take pictures and post it on the internet.

I'm so incredulous

Nice score

Do you plan on flipping it or playing it?

I vote play
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initially I was just going to flip it as im not really a fender guy but man its fun to play and has a great story. so now im on the hunt for a nice period correct case and its going to be a keeper.
 
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Did you get a vibrato arm? It's been a few years since I played a Bronco, but I remember the trem actually worked pretty well. I'm a big fan of the student Fenders, but I prefer the Mustang :)
 
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Silence Kid said:
Did you get a vibrato arm? It's been a few years since I played a Bronco, but I remember the trem actually worked pretty well. I'm a big fan of the student Fenders, but I prefer the Mustang :)
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Yes it came with the trem arm. My buddy had a mustang it's pretty sweet too.
 
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Jr_vw2 said:
initially I was just going to flip it as im not really a fender guy but man its fun to play and has a great story. so now im on the hunt for a nice period correct case and its going to be a keeper.
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I'm a fan of this! You rocked it in that video! If you sold it, it would go in some nerd's collection and literally never get played for the rest of time. Or it would end up on some reverb ad by one of those vintage resellers with 10000x pictures up close and at every angle with some description like CASE CANDY INCLUDED, MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED, TRUE VINTAGE MOJO! and price it 5x more than what it's worth and sell in 5 years when some desperate collector who wants that exact guitar finally sees it and doesn't care if it's overpriced
 
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