This listing on NYCs Craigslist is for a modified C100, done in Breakin' style, which is whatever, but he says that there is somewhere in the bronx that remanufactures them to original specs...anyone have any idea what he's talking about or is he just BSing trying to sell a messed up unit?

IF there were a place in the bronx that restores them, somebody here would know AND the tapes would be working and he'd have more info than that I bet he is full of it.

Sounds like a shop that does restorations.

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Claritone /Conion C100F dual cassette boom box from the 80's done up exactly liike the one in the movie "BREAKIN"
NEITHER CASSETTE WORK , PRACTICALLY NONE I HAVE COME ACROSS DO. rare to begin with to even find unit is in excellant shape for its age & any mods that were done to it can be easily REMOVED for the ORIGINAL look
theres a place in the bronx that remanfactures them to specs .what it cost i do not know
all other functions work , alarm , meters . ect....

from historical view - great, but original one looks much better for me.

Nasty messed up paintwork... it's my opinion.

I'm from the Bronx and I haven't seen any stores or warehouses that does such restoration for these classics. I've seen that same ad on craigslist too. I don't like the colorful design. I don't even like the movie. If there is such place in the Bronx that restores boomboxes to it's original state, I will definitely let you guys know. it may exist. I mean I saw classsic cars, nintendos, boats, etc fully restored to it's original. So why not
boomboxes? bet they have machines that build parts for our boomers

They do Nintendos now? Amazing.

well they sell new parts on ebay .. you know that part where you insert the cartridge and sometimes it has trouble staying down to run the game? thats because its worn out so they sell new parts, and those cartridge doors, controllers, etc

That was the street look back then on most box's carried around town hip and lookin to battle.Not for everyone though,remanufacturing boombox's to spec's is cool compared to remaking them again,With an inflation calculater the cost for company's would be triple the original cost it was back in the 80's.So an example a brand new JVC-PC55 today would be around $1,500 Not including tax

they have reposted this ad about 5 times now, so i figured i'd bite and ask how much they wanted. based on the language i had a feeling they wanted a ton of cash, so when they wrote back with " 500" i was not surprised.