Hey fellas what do you all listen to while driving your classic machines? AM radio? FM radio? post some pics of your radio custom installs in your wagons. i need som ideas! AM is driving me nuts! :banghead3:
I've got a Toshiba AM/FM/FM muliplex with a cassette player in the stock dash, but I'm going to add an extension to the dash to the tranny hump and build in a CD player box and mount a CD player, behind a sliding door to keep wandering eyes off.
"Classic", to me means an AM-only radio, in mono. With pushbuttons. And it picks up both kinds of stations; Country, and Western.
we have a AMradio station that plays nuttin but 50/60/70..i dig it!!...cept its AM...booo I spent a bucket full o moola to get a 'stock' AM/FM for the 64 woodie..then got a FM modulated cd player for it...stock and stealth!! in the 68 ..i put a am/fm/cd in the coffee/console with a remote
My 80 LeBaron used to have a stock AM/FM mono radio with single dash speaker. I upgraded it to this stock AM/FM/CB stereo. I still need to add the rear speakers for it. I prefer to keep my radios stock. I did have a previous Cadillac where I had installed a FM modulated CD player in the glovebox. Also, in my 61 Plymouth wagon, I had a AM/FM CD radio installed in the glovebox. The shop pulled out my factory AM radio, opened it up and ran wires to the ON/OFF switch so it would turn on the CD player in the glovebox. They left it so the radio illumination still came on too. This way when you turned on the old radio, the face lit up and the CDs played. Very cool!
Mine has the 1982 Ford am/fm stereo. No 8 track though So, where I live it's all the country/western you want! We have a lousy choice via radio here. But, I'll need to replace the pair of 3" on the dash but the rear 6x9's work great.
You Cougar guys got spoiled! Mine had dried up, rattly 4X6's in the back, but the other car had a new pair of 150 watt 6X9's, so I had to modify and adapt the panels.
I've still got an 8-track head cleaner and a few tapes from my old '75 Chryco T&C! shhh! My wife calls me a packrat, whenever I tease her about her purse.
i wouln't mind if mine played country or western, its all that damn yacking they do nowadays on AM, the only music i get is mexican station music. which isint bad but i get the ols "where in america" whenever anyone else rides with. lol!!!
I remember that Radio Shack carried an FM adapter that fit into an AM radio's cassette slot. They had them for the 8-track and the small cassette. I'll check in my junk, but I know I've got a Ford AM/FM Cassette radio from the Fairmont. It works, but the heads need cleaning, replacement or alignment. I've got a useless high-tech Panasonic with the LCD display that got poked in and only one knob control. The rest are presets. You can take the faceplate off when you leave the car. That kind of gizmo. It's got an amp connection too, when you're playing the Vargas or Luis Miguel. You've got to take your eyes off the road to use it or haul out the manual when you change town. A buddy gave me the darn thing for free, cause he hated it too.
shoo man i iwsh i had a cassette deck that would even be tits. no luis miguel or chente playin here nothing but good ol bandas... accordion gets old lol!
"Classic" is the car, eh? Although we get great AM reception here in the flatland, the poor guy needs City music, to distract him from the traffic jams. Remember those? How long is our rush hour - 20 minutes? 3 minutes at a train-crossing, 10 minutes for the cows to cross the highway? 45 minutes on Football nite at the Polo Park mall. He wants to sooth his soul, not hear some twit babble about how great Winnipeg traffic is in the Prairies. :banghead3:
I had a problem when I got this computer, because my software colleague was a legend-in-his-own-mind (Sabe Lo Todo), so I let him tinker with the damn thing and set it up. He couldn't get the sound to work. He never read the instructions that you had to download the drivers from Intel's website. Well, my wife has a great Mexican CD collection, and she rode my culo for 6 years to fix it. We packed the stereo away for the renovations (dust, paint drips, etc.). I went through the computer manuals and found the instructions about downloading it and now we have marital peace again. Well almost, now she hogs the 'puter. I can't remember how many she bought of every Mariachi in Jalisco, and Luis, and all the usual heart-throbs in Mexico. Its a pile anyway. What's a junkyard hit you for, for a stock Ford radio down there? $10-$20? I think Ford kept the same spacing up until the mid-80's.
Andy, the best one on Traffic Jams that I've ever heard is about the, are you ready for this?, the Canada Goose Crossing at the Lion's Gate Bridge in downtown Vancouver! They don't call it Lotus Land for nothing! All of God's creations get a crosswalk in Vancouver. Can't remember what the fine is though. And when mama waddles across the road with the gosslings close behind, you keep wondering if she adopted a football team's worth! And the radio stations actually remind you to watch for them during the hatching season!
