{"id":894,"date":"2012-03-19T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:28:58","slug":"mission-sds4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Mission SDS4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve been started my collection in 2003 I have missed half a dozen opportunities to get an SDS4. They were too expensive, too far away or both. When I recently noticed a pick-up only auction ending on an early Friday afternoon I scented my chance. I checked my war chest, prepared for a one-day ride to Hastings, south England. I calculated the travel costs and set my limit. And I was lucky! I think it was a real bargain if you know how much had been paid for this particular unit before and that this is one of about 100 units ever built by Dave Simmons himself. And the SDS4 closed the last gap in my Musicaid product portfolio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_01.jpg\" alt=\"4:24am\" \/><br \/>\n<em>4:24am<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_02.jpg\" alt=\"still dark in Germany\" \/><br \/>\n<em>still dark in Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_03.jpg\" alt=\"must be the right way\" \/><br \/>\n<em>must be the right way<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_04.jpg\" alt=\"Eurotunnel terminal\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Eurotunnel terminal<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_05.jpg\" alt=\"boarding\" \/><br \/>\n<em>boarding<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_06.jpg\" alt=\"after 400km\" \/><br \/>\n<em>after 400km<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_07.jpg\" alt=\"it's dark inside the tunnel\" \/><br \/>\n<em>it&#8217;s dark inside the tunnel<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_09.jpg\" alt=\"England!\" \/><br \/>\n<em>England!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_08.jpg\" alt=\"God save the Queen!\" \/><br \/>\n<em>God save the Queen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_11.jpg\" alt=\"11am GET - arrival in Hastings\" \/><br \/>\n<em>11am GET &#8211; arrival in Hastings<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_12.jpg\" alt=\"right before the big moment\" \/><br \/>\n<em>right before the big moment<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120318_sds4_10.jpg\" alt=\"here we are....\" \/><br \/>\n<em>here we are<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve been started my collection in 2003 I have missed half a dozen opportunities to get an SDS4. They were too expensive, too far away or both. When I recently noticed a pick-up only auction ending on an early Friday afternoon I scented my chance. I checked my war chest, prepared for a one-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brains","category-pads","category-report","category-stories-and-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}