Best looking reel to reel


I’m looking for a really cool looking reel to reel. Something super gnarly, like the TEAC from Pulp Fiction. What are your favorite choices?
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Evidently, most of you guys never saw a big Crown recorder in the flesh.  I never would have either, were it not for the fact that my first boss owned four of them, and he mounted them side by side by side by side on a single long shelf along one wall of his listening area.  Very very impressive, especially since he also had one room of his house dedicated to the shelving of his first-gen master tapes, which filled that whole room, floor to ceiling.
IMO, the big Crown recorders with their large, black, bakelite knobs, are the quintessence of the art deco/industrial age.  Next, or on the same plane, would be the Studers and Ampex studio recorders.  If TEAC is your ideal, then maybe you don't want that look; you want TEAC/Akai/Technics/Sony.  Among the Japanese decks, Otari comes closest to the big three in appearance and perhaps in performance when properly tweaked, IMO.