1969 Ford LTD Country Squire

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  1. jwdtenn

    jwdtenn Well-Known Member

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    Brad Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    So, how in the world do you "bore it to a 4 barrel"?
     
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    Grizz Are we there yet???

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    Gawd. That seems like a fair deal if it were close
     
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    A flipper, and knows absolutely nothing about cars, or wagons in particular.
     
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    One of those pics is at Lake Murray which is about 20 minutes from me.
    WTF is a golf cart radio?
     
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    I'm assuming this thing in the picture below . If so, WTF were they thinking.[​IMG]
     
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    Grizz Are we there yet???

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    I was wondering what a golf cart radio was also. All I can think of is they didn't want to remove the factory radio for originality sake.(don't know if I used that word right) buuuut, if that was the thought why drill into the original dash to put that rinky dink thing in there.. also I wouldn't sell it as a "golf cart" radio. I'd call it something fancy like "space saver 3000" . I used to have an 83 coup de ville, and I wanted a CD player installed so I removed the flip out ash tray and attached the CD player to the same brackets so it could be tucked under the dash out of sight when not in use.
     
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    Brad Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    If I recall correctly, the Ford radios of that era had side-by-side volume/tuning knobs. I don't know of any aftermarket radios that fit that layout. Probably one of the few choices he had but I personally would have never installed it there.
     
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    This guy f***ed up the dash beyond repair. How dumb are you to cut a hole like that in the dash?he probley had the golf cart radio laying around and was to cheap to buy something that would fit UNDER the dash or IN the glove compartment.
     
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    It should look like the radio below. Definitely not any aftermarket options. But, yeah, he ruined the dash with that golf cart radio. Like mentioned, he should have installed something under the dash, in the glove compartment, etc.

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    These were positioned at the far left of the instrument panel giving the driver exclusive control (to the dismay of the teenage sons of the drivers)

    As big as these cars are I don't see how the driver could tune that "golf cart radio". He'd have to have the arms of an orangutan.

    The stock radios are not that terribly hard to come by, but it looks like the prices have gone sky high, judging by ebay. Still, if he shopped around he might come up with one that was more affordable.
     
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    After market in the glove box or mounted in a nice box under the dash would have worked great.Hell,even a FM converter would have been period correct,
     
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