Vintage Gretsch 6104 Rally
The 6104 and 6105 Rally models weren’t really anything exceptional when they hit the market in 1967. In fact, they’ve been called yet another guitar with dual HiLoTron pickups. 
There were many similar guitars available at the time, but the 6104 Rally featured one thing some of the others didn’t: a variety of color combinations that were new and different.
It’s hard to justify buying a guitar based on the colors and the stripes that the 6104 featured. These sporty looking stripes were featured on the truss rod cover and the pickguard. The colors were odd combinations that hadn’t been used on any other guitar at the time, including things like copper mist and bamboo yellow. This model also introduced Rally Green, a shade of green that was more drab than other greens used at the time.
The 6104 Rally guitar also featured an onboard active treble booster switch, something that wasn’t really that useful since HiLoTrons already had a lot of treble in them. While all of this combines to create a guitar that it seems few would have any interest in, there was one good feature about these two models: they were fairly cheap, retailing for only about $395.
While the 6104 and the 6105 Rally models were the main two produced, there was also a Songbird model that featured G soundholes and did not include the striping.
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