Radio's In a Traditional Hot Rod

I read on here that radio's in a "Traditional" hot rod are a no-no. Well if that's the case, how do you explain a number of the cars in these pictures having antenna's...even some of the salt racer cars?!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=357549

 

Well I can't see how a radio would ever be a "no-no" ,,I m sure they may have been an expensive option back then not to mention the size of some of them ( bear to get in and out ) but a radio with a CD player,,I can see NO to that for obivious reasons

 

If you ever install a radio in a traditional rod, it has to be an AM only. That's the rules! And, it can only receive programs from the 1940s and 50s. If by some chance, let's say, a rock and roll song from 1967 comes on the air, and you listen to it, you could get into big trouble.

 

everybody had a radio that i remember. don't let anyone tell you that hotrods didn't have music. that was the culture then and that is the first thing any youg person wants..a radio in their car..well...music.

 

radios were as much a part of rodding as offey's were.

 

That's because they didn't give a damn about fitting some set of self imposed guidelines. They enjoyed their cars rather than worry about fitting in. Anyone who wants a radio in their car but doesn't put one in because it's not traditional is a ****.

 

You don't really believe that do you? Who said that? Johnny Ratrod?

When I stripped my roadster I found the welded up holes where the cowl mount antenna used to be before it was redone about 1970. I immediately drilled them out and mounted the side antenna that I had in stock. I wanted it to be exactly where that old hotrodder mounted it all those years ago. Going by the newspapers in the doors it could have been as early as 1951.

 

Mines gettin' at least 700 watts, I need my music.

 

You have to intercept echos from original radio station broadcasts, they are still out there, just have to know where the best reception is and move there. Can NOT listen to real-time broadcasts, even if transcribed from original recordings. DOH!

 

I just hid mine in the golve box, and ran the iPOD cable through the ashtray.

 

You have to be careful ,,and also think a lil.. The whole 'traditional' thing is very distorted in many ways...as it has come to mean more what a collective group may feel is the "the only correct way '

Remember back then the ability to see so many other cars did not exist like now,,and reference was by a magazine picture ( if you could afford the zine or they even sold them where you lived ) and by word of mouth

anything that was new at the time surely found its way into a car,,how many embraced that could be another matter,,but then like now ( or how now should be ) you built your car for what you needed.

 

Some of you boys like to re-write history. Can anybody tell me, with a straight face, that when they 'rodded' their ride, they would take the radio and heater out to reduce the weight? Give me a break. It's more likely that if the car didn't have one in it, they didn't go to the trouble of adding. Then of course, when building a cookie cutter................

 

we all had heaters too nash,not even the school tramps would ride in a cold *** car!!!

 

Mine has a 600 watt amp with 2 10 subs,cd/mp3 with 80GB's of roughly a 17 thousand song library(back when you could download MP3's),,sometimes this site is ridiculous.

 

Of all the things to talk about.....hmmmm.....I can't believe I read this whole post.

....moving on.....

 

I want to hear the sounds that my ride makes (better than any music).
Rebecca

 

My daily is a '66 f-100. Never had a radio. Never will. After 44 years, why bother?

 

NOS Kraco - AM/FM Mono $19.95

 

Maybe you could just hang a '50s pocket sized Transistor radio from the mirror or a dash knob.

 

I'm looking for an old radio, to have an old radio. For look. Music? I got Ipod!

 

Agreed. I have a factory radio to put back in for looks only, everything else will be hidden. Planning about the same as you system wise.

 

I've never cared about what others thought and don't intend to start any time soon.

 

When I was a kid I had a cat that would eat live bees...

 

I hid an Alpine radio behind the seat of my '37 Coupe. Alpine offers a RF remote. I don't have to point it at the radio to change stations etc. Plus I have a hidden antenna. Got music, can't see a thing.

 

Photo of 32 Roadster shortly after my late Grandfather, Bill Bronson, purchased it in October of 1953. Note: Cowl mounted antenna. Still has a.m. radio with same antenna today.

 

Where?

 

Thx for posting this pic! The uncompleted "A" hiboy roadster project I bought and am nearing completion of came with a radio from an outfit in FLA that appears to be a round dial '55 Ford with the push****ons below the dial. But it is an AM/FM stereo unit and I'm going to install it in the sectioned and shortened '35 Ford dash panel has the hole already there cut to fit.
But I was still trying to decide on the type of antenna, and have been wavering back and forth about it.
But now that I see the side of cowl antenna on your '32, I like it and that's just what I'm going to do.
Dave

On edit: Anybody got any idea where to find a side of cowl mount antenna like that?