Once upon a time, we would run home from the bus stop to watch Gargoyles and Brady Bunch reruns on the family TV, a late-1970s console Magnavox number that sat on the floor and was about 50% more ...

So she and her husband found what looks like a 1970s Zenith Chromacolor II console TV, gutted it, and replaced it with a 32-inch Samsung N5300 1080p smart TV. This project is essentially a RestoMod.

Final-assembly and wood cabinet-finishing operations for console models will be in a plant in Juarez, Mexico. Zenith has about 13,000 workers in its TV operations in Mexico.