Promo Champ radio.

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Turned this little gem up at a yard sale last weekend.
It's a Promotional radio in the form of a Champion spark plug. It houses a 110v am/fm transmitter. Fellow said it didn't work but it looked so cool I parted with a dollar bill just to look at it on the shelf.
I opened it up and sprayed some contact cleaner here and there and the darn thing started working...
These radios in battery, am form date from the late 40's to the 60's. The 110v am/fm version dates to the 70's and are much more rare.
I'll probably bring it to Carlisle.


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Cool!
First AM transistor radio was invented in Oct. 1954.

Here's a pic of my NOS one.
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I had one of the old "Rocket Ship" radios in '56, clipped it on to a window screen and static powered it, tuned it by pulling the antenna in the tip up and down. Used an ear phone as it had minimal speaker power.

Dave
 
Turned this little gem up at a yard sale last weekend.
It's a Promotional radio in the form of a Champion spark plug. It houses a 110v am/fm transmitter. Fellow said it didn't work but it looked so cool I parted with a dollar bill just to look at it on the shelf.
I opened it up and sprayed some contact cleaner here and there and the darn thing started working...
These radios in battery, am form date from the late 40's to the 60's. The 110v am/fm version dates to the 70's and are much more rare.
I'll probably bring it to Carlisle.


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Wow... want to double your money on that? :poke::lol:
 
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