New old Marshall day

[straycat]

Here you go got it for a steal of a deal

[markD]

yay, i guess? was it free?

[straycat]

Yeah it was, you think I would actually buy this?LOL
Its not a bad sounding amp really the crunch is very marshally.
I needed an amp for my bench and now I have one.
There are people that actually collect these things as I was walking out of the pawn shop a guy stopped me and said wow you found a Park amp in there?Do they have another one?
Takes all kinds I guess.

[toejam]

Cool. I know the Park line was pretty old, but that looks newer. What year?

[straycat]

Ser # starts with 96 So I'm guessing 96.

[Rupe]

Old Parks are awesome (and highly collectible) amps that were made to get around a licensing agreement that Marshall had entered into back in the 60's. Marshall revived the brand in the 90's as a budget line to compete with the low end offerings from Crate, Peavey, Gorilla, etc.

[straycat]

Old Parks are awesome (and highly collectible) amps that were made to get around a licensing agreement that Marshall had entered into back in the 60's. Marshall revived the brand in the 90's as a budget line to compete with the low end offerings from Crate, Peavey, Gorilla, etc.

Exactly.

[zeegler]

I had one of those. It was okay to practice through when I had nothing else, but it certainly didn't sound very good.

[lerxstcat]

Old Parks are awesome (and highly collectible) amps that were made to get around a licensing agreement that Marshall had entered into back in the 60's. Marshall revived the brand in the 90's as a budget line to compete with the low end offerings from Crate, Peavey, Gorilla, etc.

Yep, I had one of the G-25 Parks in the late 90s for a practice amp. Nothing dramatic but a decent practice amp with clean and drive channels. About a year later they just started putting Marshall logos on them and it became the Marshall MG-30. Same amp, rebadged when they decided the Marshal name would sell better. It was a cool $25 practice amp though, but I gave it to my neighbor who needed one more than I did.