tablebeast
Well-known member
So, I have these two Inca transformers. Both of them came into my posession in the same week for only a couple of dollars each. I've never seen any other Inca anything. Anyway, I searched the net for info and came up empty. I e-mailed this one guy who had asked for info about his own Incas on a message baord a few years ago to see if anyone ever helped him. He forwarded me the weirdest transformer story that I have ever heard. By the way is anyone knows anything about Inca transformers I have a TJ12 and a GH31 that I'd like to figure out. Ok, so here is the story...
Regarding your Inca series Phelps-Dodge transformers.
Be prepared to make a fortune. As urban legend has it,
Phelps-Dodge are descendants of the tribe by the same
name. You may already know P-D dabbles in the copper
market as part of metals used in feedline
manufacturing.
But before that, well before that, an Inca General
named Rumiñahui fled the marauding Spanish and took
with him a large share of the ransom he had been
collecting for his King. He disappeared into the
remote mountainous region of Ecuador called the
Llanganati. The load of gold artifacts he took with
him is considered the largest undiscovered treasure in
Latin America, valued at two billion dollars.
Much of this loot was manufactured into transformers
with gold laminates, painted in the usual black
wrinkle or dark, nearly black varnish. Clearly it was
not an issue of rust or tarnish but rather a means to
camouflage the quantity of gold as innocuous "ham
radio" transformers that people would think are worth
maybe $1, or $2 if multitap.
Just as clearly as their black finish, this "iron" has
an unusually good grip on gravity. You may indeed have
the treasure, if these transformers seem particularly
heavy.
See you on ebay , perhaps.
Paul/VJB
Annapolis