Well, this is a pretty cool score. Story starts back in high school (20ish years ago). My junior and senior years of HS, I had free periods in the morning. If you had good grades, you could come in late to school if you had a free period first thing in the morning. I did not have good grades, so I worked out a deal with the music teacher, who's music theory class I WAS doing well in, to spend my mornings in the auditorium where there were a couple of guitar amps and this old Ludwig Vistalite kit. So I would grab my breakfast, head to the auditorium and jam out to start my day. A nice way to start the day.
Fast forward to last fall and I was doing sound for my middle school music teacher's band, who had taken over teaching at the High School after the other guy had retired. On a whim, I asked him if the Vistalites were still around. He said they'd been sitting in a closet collecting dust since shortly after he had taken over. Then he asked me if I wanted to buy them. Well, we had just had another baby, and I didn't have a lot of spare cash lying around. He just said "Think about it and let me know." So I'm having a pretty good summer financially, so I shot him an email and made an offer. He was glad to have them out of his way and that they were going to a good home.
Coolest thing was, when I made an offer, I was thinking that it was a 5 piece kit with a chrome snare. I had no idea all those toms were there and the ORIGINAL SNARE! The 12" tom has a pretty good crack running the depth of the shell. The 15" is cracked just right around the support. I think both are probably fixable. Need to do some more reading up on that process.
