Vintage ashdown abm-115-500

[observer]

Hi. I've bought recently the ash abm 115-500 cab, and I've been searching for some more information about it. On german ebay I found this 115-500:

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASHDOWN-ABM-115-500-1X15-BASS-CAB-UK-MADE-VINTAGE-RARE_W0QQitemZ330295585407QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAmps?hash=item330295585407&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASHDOWN-ABM-115-500-...A1%7C240%3A1318[/url]

It looks a bit diffrent than mine, as mine had cloth grill cover, rectangular handles and is front ported.
Anyway, My questions are:

1. Do you know any reason to call 10 years old cabinet (about) "vintage"?
2. Is this cab really worth £350?

Cheers
Kris

Edited December 20, 2008 by observer

[Musky]

[quote name='observer' post='359440' date='Dec 20 2008, 10:58 AM']Hi. I've bought recently the ash abm 115-500 cab, and I've been searching for some more information about it. On german ebay I found this 115-500:

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASHDOWN-ABM-115-500-1X15-BASS-CAB-UK-MADE-VINTAGE-RARE_W0QQitemZ330295585407QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAmps?hash=item330295585407&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASHDOWN-ABM-115-500-...A1%7C240%3A1318[/url]

It looks a bit diffrent than mine, as mine had cloth grill cover, rectangular handles and is front ported.
Anyway, My questions are:

1. Do you know any reason to call 10 years old cabinet (about) "vintage"?
2. Is this cab really worth £350?

Cheers
Kris[/quote]

1. Some people seem to get suckered into ads using the words 'vintage' or 'rare' (and that cab is only about 4 years old).
2. No.

[bassmansky]

vintage and rare?vintage its not as musky has already said.might be rare as newer ones are now 300w i think.at £350 you can buy new for that,think theyre having a laugh!

[Machines]

It's only 4 years old ! They are most certainly having a long necked African mammal.

[Delberthot]

I had 2 of these cabs about 2 or 3 years ago.

I would say vintage was something over about 25 years old so it would have to have been made in 1983 and Ashdown weren't around then.