The "unopened" Bicentennial

[lowend1]

Several years back, a new, still-in-the-box Bicentennial T-bird was offered for sale. Anybody know what happened to it?

[Blackbird]

Not likely the one, and I'm not keen on the old birds...but there's one here (i'm not affiliated to the seller):

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-guitar/city-of-toronto/gibson-1976-bicentenial-t-bird-bass-very-clean/1033661426?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

[lowend1]

That looks another one that was up for sale awhile back - belonged to Chris Campbell (Bob Seger's bass player). I think at the time it was at Cowtown Guitars.
EDIT: Found it...
http://www.cowtownguitars.com/itemtest2.php?invno=bg70&itemtop=includes/bassesitemtop.txt

Here's the box'er (scroll down):
http://www.woodsys.com/t-CoolGuitars.aspx

[Bionic-Joe]

How do you know it's not F'ed up???

[66Atlas]

I might be too much of a cynic but I'd pay more for it if it was open and in perfect condition.  Who knows what you'll find if you open it, neck twisted beyond repair, dead pickups, black hardware or even worse a fender.    In all reality it's probably in perfect condition but what would I do with a box...I'd just rather have it opened.

Unrelated and I'm not at all saying it is the case here but....It reminds me of when I worked in retail in Kansas City. There was a local ring of thieves that was so good at steaming/cutting open boxes and re-sealing you couldn't tell at all they had been opened.  They would return the items and no-one was the wiser until the box was sold to another customer.  The new customer would open their new laptop/desktop/palm pilot (remember those) and find a perfectly weighted block of wood or brick.  Sometimes with a friendly message from the thieves.

[lowend1]

I'm just surprised that both of these basses are still showing up in their respective dealer's online inventory after all this time. Could be an oversight or some internet glitch, I suppose...

[the mojo hobo]

Actually neither shows up in a search of their respective dealer's current online inventory. Quite often web designers will simply un-link a page rather than removing it.

[lowend1]

Well, that would certainly explain that part of it. Still wondering, though, what happened to whatever was inside that box...