I own two reels right now, a 1954 Pflueger Supreme given to me by my father in law who collects and fish's with them and an Ambassodor (Abu Garcia) 5250 and a half D. All of you will say that a 5250 does not exist and your right. Its a 5000 D with half the parts on the reel consisting of 5500 D parts so I call it a 5250 D. My question is; Do any of you fish with these reels. The Ambassodor I have is a very hard to find reel that no one wants to get rid of and it took me awhile to find one and it was broken so I used my father in law's broken 5500 D as a parts reel and made mine work fine. My Pflueger Supreme is in mint condition and has landed me many,many a fish. These reels will most likely never break just get banged up and I will never fish with anything else, and both have landed their fair number of fish. How many other people fish with them? Or do you just let them sit on a shelf content to just admire them? Ive been fishing seriously for a little over ten years and my father in law has been fishing for over 35. Ive never seen anyone on any river that has either of my reels and my father in law has only seen 4 or 5 people that fish a Plfueger and 2 people that have a 5500-5000 D ambassodor. Abu Garcia made that reel for a one year I think ; '75 or '79 which would mean they sold a fair amount of them. Where are all of them?