What do the "High End Restores" sell for?
Just thinking/daydreaming out loud here... (bump for a nice looking TZ)
100 years from now when more TZs have succumbed to the ravages of time (floods, hurricanes, fires) our great-great-great-grand kids will be watching Antiques Road Show and a fellow will have brought his circa-2013 High-End Restore TZ to the show and I can imagine the appraiser almost mocking the owner...
"This is a beautiful looking machine, but had some PO not chromed the metal parts, removed the plasma DMD, sanded and re-decaled the cabinet and painted the inside of the cabinet... (the appraiser will be smug to point out, "it wouldn't have left the Bally factory like that") you'd have a 10M Yuan (the global currency is now Yuan as the trade imbalance was so whacked for so long that eventually China just softly absorbed the US). "But due to the molestation of this machine years ago, it is only worth... (pause for dramatic effect) 1M Yuan."
Not making any judgement about this machine or any other but maybe this machine will be on the RS 100 years from now at 10M Yuan?
"10M Yuan by Christmas 2117"