 The Fender Telecaster Ralph Macchio carries along his hobo trek in  the second half of the film is a 1970s CBS Fender with block  lettering on the headstock. Very realistic for the film because not  only were they affordable and easy to acquire (in the 1980s, that  is), their heavy polyurethane finish made them near impervious to  the tests of the road, as seen when Macchio and Seneca are walking  through the rain, sleeping in barns, abandoned shacks and the  outdoors. You could take a CBS Telecaster covered with snow, plug it  in and it would play perfectly.