LOL, I spotted this guitar in the local want adds when I was just a teenager, 14-15, somewhere in there. I was a huge Lennon fan and I had been begging my mom for a guitar for at least a year. This one showed up in ou small town want adds for $200. I think I drove her nuts over it, until she finally said yes and took me to the owners home to buy it. The owner had just bought a sunburst Gibson LP Custom and said that he regretted having to sell this guitar to pay for the new LP. I remeber that the guy looked like he was parting with his first child when he sold it to me. Mom made me promise that this was not a passing phase and that I would learn to play it. That would never be a problem.
A couple of years later, I was in college in at a town several hours away from my home town, when I ran into the guy, with his band playing at the local dance hall. He remembered me and asked if I had the guitar still. I did. He wanted to buy it back, but I was not selling. He seemed kind of pissed.
I finally had to sell it in 1987 to fund something myself. That was a hard day. Last year I found the original owner on Facebook, reconnected with him and found out that it was a 1963 330 Rick. It was his first guitar and he had always regretted selling it to me. I told him, it was my first as well, and I felt the same way.