FENDER CHAMP (NARROW PANEL) Description
- 4W, 1-6 in Jensen speaker, tube chassis, preamp: 12AX7, power: 6V6GT, 5Y3GT rectifier, top control panel, two inputs, one volume pointer knob, tweed covering, brown tweed-era grille, mfg. 1954-1964.
Some later models came with black tolex covering, and a silver sparkle grille (circa 1963/64).In 1951, a choke was added to the high-voltage filter section and the use of negative feedback was used (Model 5E1). In 1956, the choke was removed (Model 5F1, and the chassis remained unchanged until 1964.