Original stereo.....do you still have yours?

I still have the original AM for my 1960 Corvair, but it is in the trunk. My Mom put in a lame c***ette player with lame speakers before giving me the car.

[SIZE=+0][/SIZE]It gets FM and sounds good, so my son likes it.

 

Sure do! 57 Town & Country tube radio & 63 AM-FM. Both original and both work well.

 

1951 Motorola built like a tank sitting on a bench in my shop.

 

Motorola?

 

Nothing kills a vintage dash like a modern cd player stuck in the place of the original radio (well other the digital gauges), it particularly iratates me when they cut the dash to do it. I do like modern sound systems, I just do what ever it takes to "stelth" it.
As far as steroes go, I have a nice state of the art, high end Alpine system, best you can buy, circa 1977 sitting on a shelf. Bought it new for the outrages sum of $400. Used it for years, took it out to have it repaired (remember when you had radios repaired?), never put it back in when I got it back. Gold faceplate, ****og tuner (knobs), c***ette player, first speaker system I ever saw with seperate mid-range and tweeters. Just waiting for the 70's to come back in style so I can use it again!

 

Sure. Our 39 Ford has a Motorola "505" radio in it. Can't tell you if Motorola made them for the factories or they were dealer installed but they use to be quite commen untill the Jap electronics started showing up.

 

Got an original AM radio for the '57 from a dude in Austrailia. Looks like the American ones but the dial is BACKWARDS in comparison. Kinda neat, most people wouldn't notice it unless I point it out.

 

Nope......traded the California Sun baked 56 Pontiac AM Radio with the Ivory Plastic ****ons that crumbled with every touch for an NOS Radio Delete Plate.....Might hide a CD player under the seat this summer though.....10 years without tunes....

 

Original radio in the '65 Rivi, but I don't think it's actually in Stereo! Power antenna still works 45 years later. Can hear the one original speaker between the back seats with the windows down at highway speeds as well. Damn, I'm so glad noone cut up the dash for an ugly plastic CD player(but I do plan to hide a Sirrius setup somewhere. Don't tell!).

 

I have pulled, and kept with the car, the original radio from most of my 50's and 60's stuff and put in a unit from Custom-Autosound. They look pretty stock but sound 100 times better. the only exception is the 56 T Bird - I used their Hidden Audio for that one

 

First thing that goes in a car I'm driving is a digital tuner. Since I bought one that came with a CD, I've gone pretty much to those. It's not hard to hide one in an older car.

Somewhere I have a Motorola that's an aftermarket radio but is made specifically to go in a '58 Chevy dash, apparently at one time there was enough of a market to make a radio for people to put in radio-delete cars. I saw an ad for it in a catalog somewhere and that was how I figured out what it was. Of course, by '58 a lot of GM dashes had fairly similar radio mountings, too.

I think the last "nice" car I ran on the road was one of the Pontiacs I actually scored a factory AM-FM Stereo for out of a guy's demo derby car for free. It worked, but to have a tapedeck I had a used pull-out deck from a buddy that just sat on the seat under the armrest, wired to speakers under the seats.

 

I still have a few Wonderbar's from my tri-five Chevy days.

 

yep, i listen to a LOT of am radio.

 

I still have the stock am radio for my 65 Skylark.{somewhere} I put an am/fm/c***ete in it years ago with the factory knobs. I might put the factory unit back in and figure out how to run my Zune mp3 player through it. I like 8gb of tunes and zero bulky tape boxes full of half chewwed c***ete tapes.

 

Got my underdash CRAIG powerplay 8-track from early 70's still werkin

 

Damnit I meant to get a pic before I left work today, I have my original AM radio in my 55Lincoln, it plays great, if I just had something to listen to...

AM stations are kind of thin in Little Rock....

 

Still got the original Delco AM-FM radio in my '64, but sadly, no reverb unit for it, just the front speaker.

 

yep, 49 Ford stock radio works great ( fun to listen to the tubes warm up, and then bang music !) My 62 Mercury still has it's stock working radio as well, the 59 Plymouth wagon I had also had a stock working am tube radio.

 

Funny, the sound of the old radio through the one little old speaker just seems right, maybe because I also like old music. Even in my late model Cadillac with the Bose sound system, I never really turn it up loud, and I have had some big sound systems in the past. Maybe p***ing forty makes you change?

 

The Delco AMs in our '62s sound GREAT, especially with a (insert shameless self promotion here) RediRad.

The selectivity and sensitivity of a properly adjusted, healthy OEM radio from the '50s / '60s are surprisingly good.

 

Original AM in my 66. Got the new one mounted in my glove box, but the old one is still powered so it still lights up.

 

Some of my best memories are from 1989 at BHSU with a 67 Vair Convert with ****ty speakers and a Kraco deck!

 

My first stereo tape deck was 4 Track. Had it in a '57 Ford. 8 Tracks took over 'bout a year later.

 

I'm 34 so I missed the whole 8 track thing.

 

In my '67 I have an aftermarket that fits in the stock location and looks sorta factory. In my '47 I have the original Zenith radio but it doesn't work. I put a modern unit under the seat with a remote. I can hook up my ipod to either car which is nice.

 

Yes I do. 1959 Edsel with a factory 85SE Stromberg Carlson radio. Still works like a charm, too. But, I plan on replacing the capacitors in it before they explode on me.

 

I built this so I could listen to my Ipod in the beater. Its a 40s Packard radio case with a modern amp and speakers. I can also use it in the shop with a 12 volt adapter. I built it per a really great thread here on the HAMB.

 

Just to be cantankerous. If you are running your original sounds, they are not likely stereo.

Stereo is reproducing sound through two (or more) seperate channels. The vast majority of radios we would be using that are original are single channel.

 

sold them on evil-bay its amazing on how much people are willing to fork over for a tin can sounding am radio. Then i buy a factory radio delete plate. I rather listen to the engine.

 

As far as my research goes, "The GE and Zenith systems, so similar that they were considered theoretically identical, were formally approved by the FCC in April 1961 as the standard stereo FM broadcasting method in the USA and later adopted by most other countries" But I have ben unable to find out when the first factory FM Stereo was available from an OEM. My '65 Riviera is FM mono; those cars were loaded back then, A/C, cruise, etc., power antenna on a mono radio? I'd think if stereo was available, it would have it. Any one else?