mine was a rolleiflex 3.5E that I paid $40 for in 1983. I was working at a newspaper as a stringer, and the paper cleared out it's equipment every year for taxes. every year I managed to pick up some piece of equipment, usually pretty worn out, for dirt cheap. This Rollei was in great shape but cosmetically a little ugly--had a custom bracket machined into the left side around the focus knob, to take a graflex mount speedlight. I was torn between it and this bronica SQA system, that was a little bit more, but had a few lenses and backs. In the end, I got the Rollei--and I still have it. The bracket is great--I've used Norman 200Bs, q-flashes etc on it, and it's perfect.... you can wrap your hand around it and still focus with your finger tips. It's like having a potato masher strobe welded onto the body. ugly as hell, but works like a charm.
I remember having that E with me though, once when I wasn't working, and I came upon this spot news accident--I jumped out and ran over and shot it, and went back and ran the film, and they ran one of the pictures. you used to take the prints and run them through a selectric and type the cutline on the back--so I was doing that, and stamping my name on it and all that, and this old timer was sitting at a table near by & we were talking. I said, "Can you believe I shot this on that?", pointing to the rollei. The guy just snorted, and said, "that's all I ever used..." looking at me like I was a total dumbass or something. Oh well, I'll be that way one of these days at the rate things are going....
fwiw--I have a few more rolleis now, but that camera is about the best deal I've ever gotten on a used piece of equipment. I've had it CLA twice, and bot times the repair guys tried to buy it. great mechanical shape, and has had a ton of film put through it, but it's an ugly duckling for sure.