| Author | Message | ||
| tmoney61092
Senior Member Username: tmoney61092 Post Number: 935 Registered: 9-2008 |
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
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 4209 Registered: 6-2002 |
Looks in great condition. | ||
| wookie
Intermediate Member Username: wookie Post Number: 200 Registered: 8-2010 |
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
Advanced Member Username: wookie Post Number: 201 Registered: 8-2010 |
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
Advanced Member Username: flpete1uw Post Number: 365 Registered: 11-2011 |
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
Moderator Username: adriaan Post Number: 3143 Registered: 6-2002 |
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
Advanced Member Username: wookie Post Number: 202 Registered: 8-2010 |
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
Senior Member Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 956 Registered: 12-2003 |
I thought Elan had to do with the customer who first specified the body shape. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 8259 Registered: 6-2000 |
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
Junior Username: edwardofhuncote Post Number: 36 Registered: 6-2014 |
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
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 924 Registered: 5-2007 |
Ahah I have long wondered about the Alembic - Lotus nomenclature. VMG | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1770 Registered: 10-2006 |
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
Advanced Member Username: flpete1uw Post Number: 366 Registered: 11-2011 |
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
Senior Member Username: bsee Post Number: 2715 Registered: 3-2004 |
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
Moderator Username: adriaan Post Number: 3144 Registered: 6-2002 |
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
Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 788 Registered: 9-2004 |
That is a pretty bass, though the yellow color cast in the photos is way off what I see in the last ones. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3576 Registered: 10-2002 |
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 |
