Same here. I had electro-acoustic guitar made in 1979(USSR).
Hollow plywood body, maple neck, bronze-like(have no idea what was the material) frets and two broadband picks. It had lot of white noise and other bad things(because of age i suppose), but any cheap pedal, amp, emulator, etc made amazing sound. Versatility was name of that guitar.
Deep, bright, dark, heavy(really heavy), aggressive, soft, anything was possible. The only complain - no tremolo, and it's age.
edit: you have no idea what kind of awesome sound it produced with reel tape recorder as amp..