I happened onto an estate sale and got this lathe and thousands in tooling for 400.00!

Its heavy as hell, and i finally got it into my garage, now once i get my rotary phase converter i will wire it up and replace my smaller grizzly lathe.

http://www.mcarterbrown.com/gallery/data/500/medium/derek.JPG

Ah it's the two-toned model
Primer and rust :)

Thats the paint scheme i have on everything i own...=) it cuts nice thats all i care about

Niiiiiiiice Find!