I love older Fender amps. And I wish I had never sold my Twin, in particular, after I got married and had kids, but I did. A friend has a manageable sized Fender (heavy but not too heavy, loud but not too loud - forget the model) that came out of the Sunn factory after Fender took it over. I so covet that amp.
But as for recording, amps or guitars, nice is not always what you want for all parts in the mix.
There is John Lennon's Framus 12 string used on the Beatles' You've Got to Hide Your Love Away. If you can mentally disassociate it from the rest of of the recording, it sounds god-awful--muddy, dead, mid-rangy. But then when you put it back into the recording, it is so right.
My nephew keeps a variety of older amps, tube and solid state, in his studio for recording. Sometimes, he will say to a guitarist, "Try this 70s Peavey Pacer 100 for this track." The guitarist will cringe, but when take is reviewed, the guitarist is smiling. Harsh and punky garage with cheap reverb was the right sound for that guitar part in that tune.