My first guitar was a Rosetti Airstream 2, which I got from my elder brother for a nominal price.
When he bought it, it was, in his words 'running black' - i.e., someone had painted it, then stood it up against a wall! He resprayed it red, but while I had it, it was every colour under the sun. It went through white, blue, metallic green and several others I now forget, and by the time the dustman got it, it was a sort of Morris Marina beige.
The photos are not of mine, as it predated my interest in photography. This one appeared on eBay a year or so ago.
I replaced it with a Zenta, a very poor copy of a Strat. I bought it from my Mum's Kays catalogue - £72.50 at £2 a week!
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Again these photos are from eBay not of my actual guitar. Mine had a slightly different tremolo and white Strat-type knobs. (I've still got them! I'd swapped them for the black ones on a little amplifier I had, which I scrapped a couple of years back.) And the colour was even worse than this, a sort of red-to-black burst.
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The trem was useless and the selector switch was a Les Paul-type 3-way toggle, which switched between the bridge pickup and the other two, so at least you could have all three on if you wanted.
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