I found an old Motorola console stereo system and I bought this huge thing for twenty bucks after inspecting it, despite my wife's multiple objections. I bought it for the drivers inside; two old Altec model 421-8H.
What I also have is an ancient BSR turntable (I will recycle it), a beautiful stereo console cabinet in excellent shape for its age (junk it, probably), a really wild looking enormous, ancient tube type tuner (huge old school, hand operated via a long braided cord wrapped around the tuner knob a couple of other "wheels and direction changers" and finally to the actual multi-finned, foot long, five inches in diameter, adjustable, dusty, but working capacitive device) which picks up FM, AM and some of the Shortwave Freqs (assuming it matches the indications on the dial in the section of the cabinet where the "hood" lifts up with all the knobs - reserve judgement for now), a huge set of rugged looking iron X-formers and miscellaneous tubes, maybe just the power supply (probably need to keep this until I can figure out what all this other shit does), a huge separate chassis sporting what seems to be a very large Motorola stereo tube amplifier - about twenty tubes - that seems to work enough to make the radio come in (reserving judgement on this component as well).
The drivers had a covering of thick fiberglass protecting them all these years. Can not be the original drivers - more likely someone upgraded this old console at some point. Probably not the best driver for the application, to say the least! It is an open back cabinet, yet with Altecs - definitely NOT original!
I had made my decision and I did not care about the price up to a point. I was not walking away without these drivers, even if I had to fight with my wife that day and heft this huge thing into my truck by myself. Even with the back seats out and center seats down, I had to leave the back gate of my Escalade open, LOL.
Very curious about the old tube gear, but it was the Altecs that made me bite and I did not care if they worked or not, but THEY DO!