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Well I did a little research and it turns out it was made in Hong Kong. It still means a lot to me and I guess I'll hold onto it and some day in the future when I'm old and gray, I'll be able to hand it down to another young guy like my pal did. No idea what the capacity for thing thing is. Looks like it would be something like 240 yards of 15lb test.
The reel is definitely peculiar. It looks like it was modeled after the Penn Z series. A lot of the stuff looks like it could be taken right off of this reel and put on a Penn Z series. Such as the bail arrangement. On the Penn Z22, when you flip the bail, a little springloaded piece of metal locks into a part of the bail assembly. Same thing with this reel.
Another oddity is if you take off the spool, the actual spool is made of plastic but the bottom piece has a gap and then there is metal bottom. Then inside that gap it has a pipe cleaner type thing that goes around the circumference of the spool bottom. I figure that is to keep sand and other debris out of the housing and rotor cup. It's a cool little reel. It just sits on my fishing shelf with about 3 years of catalogs and fishing magazines.
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