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.

 

 

[Shepster8316]

21 hours ago, Mediocre Polymath said:

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.

 

 

This popped up on my FB feed last week.  The owner knew nothing about it and was asking the bass group he posted it in as to why it has two control plates and knew nothing about the bass really.  Can't recall if he'd been given it or found it in a sale, or something like that.  Only showed that one photo of the front of the body so no one answering really saw the full condition.  I'm also guessing from his post he'd not had it long and had never played it or dismantled it.