For Sale Two Twinsonic CTS bars

[H20]

The ad says $225 on it but when you get into the description you'll see he's asking $360 per Twinsonic; but he wrote me last night saying $325 for one. The bar for $225 is also listed and isn't worth a quarter of his asking price.

One CTS is all amber; I'm not familiar with these bars myself but it appears to have a late 1960's tag on it. The other CTS is all blue with the amber rear cut-out. They're unrestored and are too expensive for my budget. Portland Oregon.


https://offerupnow.com/item/detail/...ms&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=viewershare

 

[shues]

Holy mackerel! That appears to be an MCSO CTS.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

Looks that way to me.

 

[H20]

What's the story/significance?

Holy mackerel! That appears to be an MCSO CTS.

 

[shues]

If I understand it correctly, they were custom made for one particular agency.

Here's a copy of post 26 in http://elightbars.org/forums/threads/whats-the-most-rare-or-valuable-item-in-your-collection.4734/

well ryan is reproducing them, but I have the ORIGINAL MCSO CTS bar, all blue domes amber rear, and blue front flashing lights. ryan argued they didnt make one, but I have it.. he has since come around to the idea.. I also have a cts that has mint r/b domes these would be my most valuable items

There's additional information in post 28 of http://elightbars.org/forums/threads/motorolamaniacs-collection.3939/ as well:

I have a few original oregon CTS bars from mcso, ONLY one still has the blue domes on it, as they were recycled through the fleet into the mid 90's on animal control trucks and stuff, NONE of these bars have any odd endcap markings, just CTS.

to my knowlage there was ONLY one bar that was tested with the red steady panel in a blue lense, that was ditched and all the ones that were installed were blue domes with 1 amber rear panel, some bars used 1 flasher for the front and rear par46's , some bars had 2 flashers and some had 1 flasher that alternated front and rear.

many of these bars are featured on the early (season 2 or 3 ) of cops shows.

There's a blurb in post 25 of http://elightbars.org/forums/thread...ly-the-rarest-twinsonic-made-stay-tuned.67322 the text of which came from http://www.freewebs.com/twinsonic/twinsoniccts.htm courtesy of member ryan:

Maybe the one from Oregon?

"In Multnomah County Oregon the Sheriff liked the CTS bar so much he ordered them for his cruisers. He had one change done to the bar to set them apart. He ordered them in all blue. Federal Signal sent them a prototype to review. The decision was made to have the front steady light in red eliminated and so they eliminated the front panel cutout from the order and the amber rear flasher remained."

There's some further discussion here: http://elightbars.org/forums/threads/odd-twinsonic-12x-find.51569/

 

[Scoot163]

I live 2.5 hours away from the seller and gonna try to have a look!

 

[JennyCop]

"Prices are FIRM. No haggeling" was the response I received when I asked.

 

[shues]

"Prices are FIRM. No haggeling" was the response I received when I asked.

That original MSCO CTS should be well worth the asking price.

 

[empire5150]

Cant agree more with that. In my opinion, its worth more than the price of both bars. There was an all red cts (m) that just sold on ebay for over 800 the other day.

 

[ERIC6913]

Bars are sold and coming to me. I spoke with the nice gentleman and he is a former Oregon State police officer and received them while working there.
Update: Hopefully I'm not the only one getting some........Stay tuned

 

[801]

Bars are sold and coming to me. I spoke with the nice gentleman and he is a former Oregon State police officer and received them while working there.
Update: Hopefully I'm not the only one getting some........Stay tuned

Congratulations. I contacted him asking if he would ship, and didn't receive a response.

 

[empire5150]

Did you get yours today Rich?

 

[ERIC6913]

Did you get yours today Rich?

I hope yours arrive and are in one piece Matt!

I got confirmation that rich picked up his!

 

[JennyCop]

I already have a MCSO CTS which is why I wasn't too persistent. Agree it's worth it's asking price I just didn't want to pay that for a duplicate.

Congrats on the purchase Eric, glad they are going to a great home.

 

[Scoot163]

Yes I did get mine yesterday! The seller is a nice man but a very firm negotiator. I already knew Matt was buying and when I heard him mention the name Eric I had to laugh. Knew exactly who it was. The lightbar piranhas!

I will admit my jaw dropped when I saw so many of these bars in one place!

The seller is 80 years old and says that he worked for the Oregon State Police for 15 years and that these bars are Oregon State Police bars and that OSP used them for years. I've traveled through Oregon my entire life and never seen a CTS on an OSP cruiser. Also did some research on their vehicles and nothing but what I remembered, the center beacon with huge Mickey Mouse ears on either side of a roof mount bar. He has to be mistaken. I think these are definitely Multnomah County bars.

The bars I saw all looked to be in real decent shape. A true great find.

 

[JennyCop]

How many did he have? Any pics of the pile?

 

[empire5150]

He had 5! 3 blue and 2 amber ALL CTS

 

[Scoot163]

He had 5! 3 blue and 2 amber ALL CTS

I think he had more than that, or at least when I was there he had picked up some to sell for a friend. I saw one amber CTS, and at least another 6 all blue CTS bars. No pictures. He was kind of private about his stuff.

 

[shues]

I think he had more than that, or at least when I was there he had picked up some to sell for a friend. I saw one amber CTS, and at least another 6 all blue CTS bars. No pictures. He was kind of private about his stuff.

It's stories like this that make me wonder where and when the guy who is hoarding all of the green Twinsonic lenses will turn up.