It's a 1978 silverface Vibrochamp. I won it on eBay last week, after a run of getting spangled on them left, right and centre. I'm over the moon with it - paid considerably more for it than I did for my old/James's/mine again/now Reece's one, but it's about the one piece of kit I regret flipping. This all came about because a 74 VC came up for sale locally, and since I turn 40 in September, thought this would be a good significant, birth year bit of kit. That one a) sold for too much money and b) turned out to be a 1980 anyway. I'm happy to have a '78 and lie about my age.
It's the cleanest silverface I've seen in the flesh - some pitting on the top strips, but the fascia and grille is minty. It's the first UK model I've seen with the correct back panels too (the top one's shaped, rather than rectangular). Original, possibly-quite-shit-but-I'm-too-in-love-to-notice Fender speaker, old as fuck Fender-branded tubes, even came with the manual, guarantee and circuit diagram.
It sounds fucking great - VCs give the best trem I've ever heard from any amp or pedal. Wish the Princeton's trem was this good (or could be set this slow, frankly). And while it always seems daft when I see it written down, it's true somehow: the roominess to the way the amp sounds means that the lack of reverb isn't a problem. Really spacious* sounding.
More pics when I open it up and discover a rats' nest of wires inside and a terrifying bulging cap can.
* don't hate me.
