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Hi, I have a new old stock cobra 148gtl. Never been out of the box. Made in Malaysia. What do you think this is worth?

As much as someone is willing to pay for it...lol

Seriously though, I have a Malaysian made 148. They may not be as desirable as the Philippine-made unit -but nonetheless- still far better than the Chinese-made junk they are making now! Different as night and day. The really outstanding differences between what you have here and the new 'sound tracker' versions now being made - is that the SSB is vastly superior.

Since what you have is new - I would say that it might fetch as much as $175. These radios are equivalent to a cobra 2000GTL; it is exactly the same radio chassis w/o the meter and freq counter as the 2000GTL.

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Nice radio. I would think 200 or more. If there was anything comparable available in current makes/models, maybe not so much. But you just can't buy an AM/SSB CB new that will compare to this radio, especially on the RX side.

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something like that which has never been outta the box will fetch $175 all day long. id say around the $200 range would be reasonable. maybe a hair more?

With the way things are right now 125-200 is the realistic price range. Ya never know, take some nice clear pictures, type up a good add, and list it on e-bay. Could fetch 175-250 if played up right. You have to be willing to roll the dice and in big print say NO RESERVE..... ONE DOLLAR OPENING BID.

And if it's heavily corroded it's worth about $5.00





























sorry....just had to say that

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a malay $100-$125. the pcb was a direct copy of the uniden board but the components were not of the same quality. its hard to prove anything is nos these days. your talking about the one you had with the display segment out? its unfortunate but that is gunna hurt the price as youve seen. that knocks it down into the clean used range. $55-$95

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KC0WRG / cdx001

I have a Cobra 148GTL-dx mkII that i don't use. It has the original orange box, mic, and bracket. I was told by the Cobra worxshopz that it is worth up to £150 in the Uk. They still make good money on e-bay.
Cobraworxshopz
It's not as good as my Magnum S9 though.

*shrug* I paid $30 for a tuned one, but the high/low switch didn't work, light for the meter was burned out. I doubt this helps, buy i tried.

Good radio.

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Cobra 29LTD classic RIP
Johnson Black-face (grandfathers, does not work...yet)

In my van:
Northstar 450 BFM with mosfet finals, Silver eagle 200, D104m6b, pyramid phase III speaker,radioshack power/SWR meter, 102inch stainless steel whip

In Mom's car: moded Uniden Pro-520XL, Cobra Highgear base loaded magnet mount

In Dads car: Moded Cobra 29 soundtracker , 102inch stainless steel whip

the dx and the 148 are 2 completly different radio's. your dx is our superstar 360. values dont interchange. the only thing the same is the cobra name.

nice radio by the way. not to common in the states as there illegal but soem have found there way over in the last 20 odd years.

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KC0WRG / cdx001