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tmoney61092
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Username: tmoney61092

Post Number: 935
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 7:44 am:   Edit Post

This shape is super rare and with these woods and awesome aged cream covers is simply gorgeous!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Alembic-Persuader-Vector-Bass-32-inch-scale-/271600536146?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

~Taylor
jazzyvee
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Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 4209
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 8:48 am:   Edit Post

Looks in great condition.
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wookie
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Post Number: 200
Registered: 8-2010
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 9:35 am:   Edit Post

Yea, that's a beaut'! In all of my Alembic dorkery I didn't know the vector headstock is the same as the Elan...cool.

Semi-unrelated question....where did the name Elan come from and what does it mean??? Anyone?? Bueller? Bueller?
wookie
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Post Number: 201
Registered: 8-2010
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 9:35 am:   Edit Post

Yea, that's a beaut'! In all of my Alembic dorkery I didn't know the vector headstock is the same as the Elan...cool.

Semi-unrelated question....where did the name Elan come from and what does it mean??? Anyone?? Bueller? Bueller?
flpete1uw
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Username: flpete1uw

Post Number: 365
Registered: 11-2011
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post

Yeah, that is a real cool looking Bass.
I may be off base here but when looking at the great offerings of the pictures it almost looks like there may have been some repaired neck damage? the center line 1/3 down from the head stock is a pronounced line and some wavering a little further down. Another probably non inconsequential point is the line on the Mahogany back. The head stock has some pronounced although cool looking laminates.

As always this is what 1 1/2c brings to the table.
Cool looking Bass though
Pete
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 3143
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 2:03 pm:   Edit Post

I seem to remember that there's a couple of Lotus sports cars that have lent their name to some of the basses - Elan, Europa, Excel.
wookie
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Post Number: 202
Registered: 8-2010
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 4:03 pm:   Edit Post

Adriaan thanks! I would have never figured that out.... I'm poor.
I thought Europa was named after the princess that was kidnapped by Zeus for the last. 20 some years Lol!

Could you tell me what "Elan" means and/ or where it came from from lotus?
jalevinemd
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Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 956
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 5:26 pm:   Edit Post

I thought Elan had to do with the customer who first specified the body shape.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 8259
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 5:32 pm:   Edit Post

Elan means energy, style, and enthusiasm. It's also a cool Lotus car. When my parents met, my dad was driving a Lotus Europa.
edwardofhuncote
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Username: edwardofhuncote

Post Number: 36
Registered: 6-2014
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 5:50 pm:   Edit Post

I actually knew that... well, the first two anyway, but because I was a car enthusiast a long time ago. (before I discovered bass!) But the third sounds like a very cool story as well... Alembic trivia. =)

That Vector body is nice... one of my pals on another forum had a Persuader "Vector" in really beautiful walnut. Tan (or is that butternut?) pickups? I like 'em, just never seen them.
funkyjazzjunky
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Username: funkyjazzjunky

Post Number: 924
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2014 - 6:01 pm:   Edit Post

Ahah

I have long wondered about the Alembic - Lotus nomenclature.

VMG
cozmik_cowboy
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Username: cozmik_cowboy

Post Number: 1770
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 - 4:26 am:   Edit Post

I dunno, Pete - I think the "wavering" is an optical illusion caused by the grain patterns. And I'm sure the line on the back is grain.

Peter
flpete1uw
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Username: flpete1uw

Post Number: 366
Registered: 11-2011
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 - 11:53 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Pete,
I've been known to be optically illusued before. :-)
It's just the line up of the Mahogany marking, wavering, and that neck line seam to aligned. Worth asking, what's the worse that can happen?

Pete
bsee
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Username: bsee

Post Number: 2715
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 - 11:54 am:   Edit Post

As a Persuader the price is a little bit above average, but since it's an unusual shape, I am surprised someone hasn't stepped up. If the auction had a "best offer" option, someone would probably offer $2K. If I were rolling in dough, I'd pick it up. Looks like a really cool gigging bass.

I thought Lotus cars were cool back in the day. I ended up driving the Isuzu sports car for a couple years that had a Lotus-designed suspension. That thing really held the road.
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 3144
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 - 2:56 pm:   Edit Post


quote:

I thought Elan had to do with the customer who first specified the body shape.



According to the Evolution of Body Shapes page, "The first Elan was made for a customer in Japan that wanted a very Jazz looking bass (the "H" in the Elan serial number is for "Hojin")."
gtrguy
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Username: gtrguy

Post Number: 788
Registered: 9-2004
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 5:40 pm:   Edit Post

That is a pretty bass, though the yellow color cast in the photos is way off what I see in the last ones.
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 3576
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 3:37 am:   Edit Post

Couple of nice Lotus Europas at the Bo'ness speed hillclimb I was at on Sunday. One in the classics display with the original renault engine and one racing with the later twin-cam. Always been one of my favourite lotus body styles. probably the first 'exotic' I ever saw.

Graeme

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