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Gene M
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« on: January 29, 2009, 07:11:21 PM »

http://westfordcomp.com/camerafront.jpg
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Dean Williams
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2009, 07:29:55 PM »

These aren't so rare...
I had one about a dozen times.
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Dean W
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Oh, and it's been SIX almost SEVEN years!  Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2009, 07:46:17 PM »

LOL.

Is that the Spitar lens or the more desirable Swallar?
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2009, 08:42:22 PM »

Ye cracketh me up! :2yippee: Cheesy :2yippee:
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2009, 09:00:53 PM »

it has the yank my crank film winder
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2009, 09:12:18 PM »

I hate to say it, but that camera sucks.
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2009, 09:36:11 PM »

From what I think I can make out of the remnants of my copy of McKeown's (which was on the bottom shelf when the basement flooded and all the pages stuck together and the ink washed off) this model was in production for only 3 days before the company went bankrupt.  When the company's assets were auctioned off, the dies were purchase by another upstart company who reintroduced this same camera as the Craptoflex.  It was in production for several weeks until all the assembly workers got bored and went out for a beer and forgot to ever come back.
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2009, 11:53:04 PM »

Well, do we get to see how it performs?
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2009, 02:32:46 AM »

That needs to go on ebay - ultra rare camera in minty condition.

You could end up a millionaire!
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2009, 05:16:10 AM »

Quote from: sandeha;159519
Well, do we get to see how it performs?


It......sucks.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2009, 09:24:37 AM »

A 1970s attempt to revive this model had Linda Lovelace as spokesmodel in both print ads and on TV, with disastrous results in public, but with a secret cult following among henpecked husbands and pubescent boys.
 
A rather ingenious (yet ungrammatical) catch-phrase used by Ms. Lovelace was,
 
"Suck-flex...I do!"
 
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2009, 09:26:07 AM »

Quote from: Mike Kovacs;159510
LOL.
 
Is that the Spitar lens or the more desirable Swallar?

These are the best puns I've seen in a long time, Mike!  I'm in tears from laughing so much!
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Pete (Corpus Christi, TX)
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2009, 01:20:30 PM »

Another marketing genius bites the dust. Some members have no respect.

This one is up there in my list with Mitsubishi, who dreamed up the Moco and the Pajero (check any Spanish on line dictionary).
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2009, 01:33:03 PM »

Quote from: Gene M;159522
It......sucks.


So it was, or it wasn't, a suc cess ??
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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2009, 02:44:13 PM »

Well, Gene only posted one photo--that's all she wrote.
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