I wished that piece of nostalgia was something from Hollywood but not in the cards right now. I have however always been a fan of the old tilted back C-presses, they just look neat and ooze classic reloading. I'm just a fan of older things and antiques in general. I picked up this nice old Pacific from Jason aka. Skunk1 off the S&S here a week or so ago. Great guy to do business with by the way! I peeled it out of the box and completely stripped it down to its individual components and proceeded to scrub it gently with a toothbrush and moose milk (Ballistol/water mix) as its a good enough cleaner but still gentle and wouldn't harm the original paint. It cleaned up real nice! I have the LEE bench plate system on my bench (adding another in the future to my bench expansion) and I really like it. Its not the best of the modular mounting systems but it works, its widely available, and value minded. The newer steel bases are great but for lower stress usage the wood bases are fine. I started making my own out of Hickory that I finish and stain. I use all stainless hardware on everything, cap heads where I can including the base. The press is held on the block with stainless cap heads with T-nuts embedded in the bottom in a pocket I routed out for flush fit. It all turned out really nice! It looks fantastic and I enjoyed loading some .38 wadcutters with it the other day!
This addiction could quickly get out of hand!