![]() Elvis Presley had his blue suede shoes and Abu Garcia had its red anodized frame. No small point, the Ambassadeur 5000 looked cool. ![]() Braided line was immediately relegated to something your grandfather toted in his battered wooden box. This was huge! During the late 1950s, mono pointed straight (even while stretching) to the future. An adjustable star drag regulated the tension on the outgoing line against the locked handle.Īnd, unlike the sputtering freewheelers, the Ambassadeur 5000 with its plastic spool and centrifugal brake was the first casting reel that could handle the introduction of springy monofilament line. It boasted a patented centrifugal brake to control the windmilling spool during the cast and an anti-reverse mechanism to eliminate backspinning during the retrieve. The import, distributed as the Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 5000, incorporated a push-button free-spool design that disengaged the spool from the handle. The red abu ambassadeur 5000, imported from Sv¿¿ngsta, Sweden, by AB Urfabriken, debuted in the United States at the 1954 New York World's Fair (ABU's European precursor to the Ambassadeur was the Record series). ![]() This Vintage ABU Garcia Ambassadeur model 5000, serial number 166387, bait casting reel with free spool and star drag 2 1/2” sideplate diameter with double handle crank will be for some anglers a once in a lifetime opportunity to own one of the most sought after fishing reels in the world. This reel might be second hand but it has been taken great care of and looks hardly used. The casting reel may be an american original, but the grand old game amid the lily pads and bay shores was changed forever in the years after World War II with the introduction of a single foreign product.
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