Very cool, and congratulations Flip.
 
Enjoy your new baby for many years to come!
Mike

Flip,
 
congrats ! I can only second Mike, enjoy your Elan, and post pics to the Showcase Section when time allows.
 
...and, do not forget to breathe, LOL !
 
your Christian

Here's the details, Flip,
 
Elan HLB4 90H6003
 
top: Quilted Maple
body: Maple
neck: 3-piece Maple, 34 long scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid oval inlays
body shape: Elan with tummy and elbow cuts
peghead shape: Elan Inline
pickups: PJZB
electronics: Elan (volume, pan, filter, Q) note there are 2 preamps inside the bass, one for each pickup
finish: Stormburst
hardware: polished brass
originally made for: New Seattle Music
birthday: not recorded (last date on work order is into spray, May 10th)
 
Original owner was from WA and bought the bass on July 14, 1990.

Thanx!

  Proof she's in my clutches:  

 

You two playing Big Bottom there? I think it's about time for another quick visit...