An Unfortunate Mustang

[ash]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336436328773?_skw=bass&itmmeta=01KHGR1Y0HQNSHADW9N2FBYQBW&hash=item4e552af945%3Ag%3Ay-kAAeSw1bxpkZJR&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAAwGfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xDjmXZR3XpYasifPostgLYb9elL1hLk5Y1dh3jjrRr81211GZA0P2m3ym%2BPXlobv1tdDKe8LrfWI%2FkQkrsGSwGNX3dyGvC7UpoVspnSF4%2FYWtyjQatOF1cYn4y6O9DCE3%2BiS8cQrcOM%2Bb%2BwLdr2wp2I1PRcMkyAE7wAtAIU3A57ygehuu8KPt0ly6m6mhoUabJ8b0sxCPTWyxWxu%2BBAFcgguq4GEsl3cHE%2BBkMNOz97%2Fg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8rgh5iMZw&LH_ItemCondition=3000
 

At an ambitious price given the condition and standard of modification.

[rwillett]

You could say it's rare, very few Mustangs have been used as a shovel on a building site. I can see why it may not have been played for 10-15 years, the site foreman still used it.  

 

Would love to see the routing under the second control panel. 

[ezbass]

 W…T…A…F?!!!

[madshadows]

In good condition.......................................................................................... for firewood !!  😛 

 

John 😎 

[Dan Dare]

Poor thing. I feel for it.

[Mediocre Polymath]

I hate listings where the instrument has clearly seen serious tinkering, but the seller doesn't make any effort to explain (or sometimes even acknowledge) what's been done. Like, you'll see a 1970s Fender Precision with a mudbucker at the neck, some other mystery pickup at the bridge and a Chernobyl-Control-Room number of knobs and switches, and the listing will just say something along the lines of "1978 P-bass, modified". 

 

It always just makes me think that either it is completely buggered, or it fell off the back of a lorry and the seller doesn't know what it is.