I got a champagne one when NVCF was still at the NEC:
The big cap was shot so I replaced it along with a few others and the 100R, and used as a home cinema centre channel amp for a while.
Eventually I fancied stereo and got a bronze one which was restored. The colours upset my OCD, so I swapped the champagne one with a bronze one with a fella, who was most put out with the manner in which I had fixed it (I only wanted to make it work). He got the last laugh, as my champagne one had Mullard valves and the bronze one he gave me had no-name tat. It also didn't work - dodgy caps probably, so I went from two working amps of different colours to two similar coloured amps with one duff channel. Oh well, but only 260 quid total spend twenty something years ago. I now have 4 Golden Dragons for the EL34s.
I hope to get around to fixing the dodgy one eventually.
The big cap was shot so I replaced it along with a few others and the 100R, and used as a home cinema centre channel amp for a while.
Eventually I fancied stereo and got a bronze one which was restored. The colours upset my OCD, so I swapped the champagne one with a bronze one with a fella, who was most put out with the manner in which I had fixed it (I only wanted to make it work). He got the last laugh, as my champagne one had Mullard valves and the bronze one he gave me had no-name tat. It also didn't work - dodgy caps probably, so I went from two working amps of different colours to two similar coloured amps with one duff channel. Oh well, but only 260 quid total spend twenty something years ago. I now have 4 Golden Dragons for the EL34s.
I hope to get around to fixing the dodgy one eventually.