Thread: Craigslist SVP Mini bar Find....

So I found anothey oddity on the Craig hunt. This is a mini bar Labeled by SVP. The bar has 2 sealed beam rotators each with it's own Unity heavy duty enclosed motor.drive system (labeled before I cleaned them!). The bar was rough so I gave it the full monty and I think it looks great minus the crazing that "magically" shows up when on. Is this rare?? If so.....HOW rare??? On a scale of 1-10....10 being the rarest....thanks as always for looking! Steve

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theyre rare enough. does this one have the plastic base or metal? looks great!

Nice little bar
I'd guess maybe a 7?

Never seen one in the past 30 years or so that I can remember, thanks for sharing! I hope a video is on the way too?

Originally Posted by Richard P

theyre rare enough. does this one have the plastic base or metal? looks great!

It has an aluminum base with plastic ends......

An fd a few hours north had ones on their van, it weighed next to nothing, it was a full bar, plastic frame. thats the only ones Ive ever seen.

I'd say 6.5 - 7.5 on rarity... very nice little bar. They are most rare in blue. Red and amber are more common, although still rare in a mini format.

Nice score, seen lots of full size only a couple of mini's.

Be carefull with the dome. All of the ones I have had, the domes were really brittle, and cracked when I polished.
Clarence

Congrats Steve... I am suprised the bar does not have a diamond mirror in the middle?

Nice find.

Originally Posted by PinballCharlie

Congrats Steve... I am suprised the bar does not have a diamond mirror in the middle?

Doesn't look like there's enough room for a mirror if you consider the rotation of the bulbs.

I think I could move the rotators out a bit and get a flat mirror in there but I think keeping it original is the way to go....

Oooo, Daddy like! That's different, I didn't know SVP made a small mini bar like that. Hang onto that one! That's unique.

I like the open speaker design. Otherwise bulky, makes a StreetHawk look almost skinny.

This one had the 7600 bulbs but 2 were smashed and one is cracked...bleh

Steve, you've been hittin the bricks I see. Awesome find!

great find! neat looking minibar.

Great find

Thanks guys....I have never ever seen one of these in operation on an actual vehicle in my entire life and I look at anything with transparent colored plastic or glass.....thus....I figured it was pretty rare, or at the least, uncommon...

Originally Posted by emtanderson51

So I found anothey oddity on the Craig hunt. This is a mini bar Labeled by SVP. The bar has 2 sealed beam rotators each with it's own Unity heavy duty enclosed motor.drive system (labeled before I cleaned them!). The bar was rough so I gave it the full monty and I think it looks great minus the crazing that "magically" shows up when on. Is this rare?? If so.....HOW rare??? On a scale of 1-10....10 being the rarest....thanks as always for looking! Steve

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This one's gotta be rare, back when SVP was still SVP and still in Florida. The dome looks a lot like one of the small Yankee domes, similar to what Yankee used in their mid-sized lightbars that were used on the mid-sized Plymouth Gran Furies, etc. SVP also had a small magnetic bar with twin halogen rotators that was very nice and not all that expensive early-on.