Nice to meet you too ... first rig here was a 1965 Motrac purchased in 1975 complete with manual - a model U43HHT1100E (last of the all-tube exciter series). 40 Watts from a 6146 PA tube ... I later retrofitted that rig with a VHF Engineering "Synthsizer II" so I could work the entire 2 Meter band ... also added a switchable (via a bypass relay) dual-gate MOSFET RF preamp in front of the helical-resonator front end ... what a radio! (And I've still got it!)
Oooh! Oooh! How 'bout an FM-TRU80D? 2E26 final, "genemotor" HV supply. Good vehicle stabilizer :^). I eventually donated it to the CAP so they could cannibalize it for a repeater.
I had an old dual-6146 GE low-band base station (I forget which model) that I crystalled and re-tuned for 6M... subsequently sold. Got a few Mitreks scattered around... 440 repeater... various APRS digis... old 6M repeater, subsequently sold, wish I still had it.
Also helped build a 220 repeater out of an old exciter, receiver, and a TE Systems amp; it's in service on the mountain next to the 440.
Built a 1.2 GHz. repeater for the house out of a pair of Kenwood 541s and a RLC-Club controller... I use it to link to the repeaters on the mountain; from there I can link to other repeaters all over the state. I get about two miles of HT coverage (antenna is at 25 feet AGL) out of it, running one watt, with trees all over the place around here.
Fun stuff.