Re: Value of Johnson TD-20? Like new.

[legendre]

If it’s truly "mint" with no missing / damaged parts and original paint & decals totally un-faded and unblemished, I’d say $200 is a very fair price. The year is also somewhat important, as the earlier decals were a bit more stylish & zoomy than the later. And this is just a ‘wonder’, but they may also have changed the green paint color over the years, and one of the greens is more attractive in my view..

It’s true that they made gobs of them, but every one I’ve ever seen has been pretty well used – and there’s a very good reason for that. Same thing with old Martin guitars.. the dang things just ran so sweet that they never got left alone..

So this may well be one of those cases where the model itself is very common (perhaps even ubiquitous) but truly mint and original examples are very hard to locate. Prime examples will always pull good money, much better than the average condition $50-75 units.

ETA: I sold one about 2-3 months ago for $120. It was very complete and orig., ran like a top, but had faded paint and some small tank dents. Decals were OK. Considering how much time & money it would take to +fake+ it back to "mint", that extra $80 seems like a cool breeze!