Music and radio in your classic

mustang68

What do you all do for music in your cars, do you use the original radio or do you have your ipod connected to a fancy head unit with 17 speakers and 147kW amp?

Oh and what music do you listen to?

Blue850

A 70's Sony in the Triumph, still have original manual for it, and some 80s piece of junk in the 850 but i've got an 70's Motorola for that, just have to fit it.

alfarocks

I've got some pos 80 radio just to fill the hole in the dash, but pottering along at 4500 rpm sounds good enough to me

--amadeus--

The previous owner fitted a Sony Minidisc player but thank God it would be easy to remove. I've left it in for now and use an iTrip to broadcast my iPod to it's radio (ideally solution for any classic fitted with a radio).

Trouble is that once I get past 3k rpm you can't hear much!

green-blood

nothing at all in the mini, we used to just sing.... now its mostly nursery rhymes!!!

Dades

I kept the old radio console and installed a Blaupunkt in the glovebox, with a 10-CD changer in the boot.

Pic here

The stereo is controlled by a small remote so the glovebox can be shut, and there's nothing on show for skangers to break into for.

I always have a U2 album in the tray too.

dubtom

I have the original AM radio in mine, unfortunatly the electrical ariel went funny a while back and I disconnected it, so now all I have is a hiss.I dont mind, very rarely listened to it anyway, engine sounds sweeter. In my daily driver I usually listen to RTE1 or Q102 or cd wise eddie reader, she be good.

breanoh

I currently have the origional 80's radio/tape. The blasted thing only does LW and MW, so It is about to be replaced by a nice Cd/Radio.

MercMad

Check it out................:cool:



In-car radio specialists Becker have produced a ‘Classic’ Mexico radio that might look old-fashioned from the outside but is packed with modern hi-tech equipment. Behind the 1960s façade lies an ‘infotainment’ system that includes, navigation, telephone, radio and card reader.

Dades

That classic radio looks very cool...

Hopefully just when it's switched on though, otherwise prepare to have your window broken... :eek:

Anan1

No radio at all in the 280SL, and the original Blaupunkt in the Delta. That Becker looks dead cool - I have a Becker bluetooth 7945 in my everyday car, I'm imagining that's what's inside the "classic" one. Great unit.

ds20prefecture

I have an iPod and a crappy blaupunkt that I still haven't gotten round to putting in the boot. Speakers were the problem with my car - originally there was a single 7x3 oval in the dash and a 10" woofer in the rear parcel shelf. Now there's two 4" sony speakers in the dash and two 6x9s under each front seat in a "custom" enclosure (a butchered wine box). Blaupunkt to a dinky shallow 10" subwoofer which should cure my only remaining problem which is a serious lack of bass. It's great having the iPod for traffic, but on the open road you can barely hear the thing with the engine and wind noise.

Henry Ford III

There has never been one fitted to the RS2000.

The last long trip I took in it meant rigging my mobile (K750i) up with a combined fm aerial/portable handsfree and listening to perfect radio (with RDS so no retuning).

The phone also has a 1 Gig memory card so doubles up as an MP3 player.

dubtom

Sweet mother a jasus,that becker is €1500.I'll settle on my hiss.

ToyotaDyna

Thats a really good looking radio MercMad

But if you really like your car only have a tape with the songs from the time your car was made playing it in aswell lol :cool: That would be interesting

junkyard

I prefer listening to my V8's than a radio tbh especially through the Jack Lynch tunnel with the window down.:D

shagman

In my scimitar I have an 80s sanyo radio/tape deck.
But in my Chevy van I have this baby....
It's a Pioneer Cockpit overhead console, still only a tape deck and radio but every conceivable button stuck on and the little silver death star is to adjust the direction of the "quadraphonic" sound. Has a seperate amp behind the drivers seat too.Total overkill but suits the van very nicely and I love it.Decent sound and volume too.As regards music funk , hip hop and punk.

junkyard

That looks like something out of Knight Rider or Mad Max.:D

mustang68

That is such a cool console, I'd get that car just to have the console, its the best bits of James Bond, Back to the Future and knight rider all in one.

Anyone have an 8 track??

NEVCC

I have one in the cortina. its in almost as bad a shape as the car is :rolleyes:

MercMad

The Becker is certainly cool and not badly priced IMO, however I do not have one, I just dream of owning one !

Currently there is a 10 year old Sony with a ten disc in the boot, and yes it has plenty of period music !

I like DS's idea with the iPod, I might try that out actually............at some point !

tyney

I was contemplating taking a unit with a removable face, maybe a sony, and hardwiring the 6 connectors from the removable face to the unit with a decent shielded multicore. you could then (in theory) put the face off it on the back of the sunvisor, and stash the head unit out of sight, connected by the cable run up to the sunvisor. Anyone tried this? No radio in the car, and no holes in the dash already. dont want to go drilling the dash or hacking out a din space. would miss the radio when stuck in a line of traffic plodding along. I only want to hear the engine when it's a half inch from the redline.

overdriver

My new 1969 Herald has a poweramp in the glove box with a connection for an iPod.

the radio will come from my phone and headset.

mustang68

tyney wrote:

I was contemplating taking a unit with a removable face, maybe a sony, and hardwiring the 6 connectors from the removable face to the unit with a decent shielded multicore. you could then (in theory) put the face off it on the back of the sunvisor, and stash the head unit out of sight, connected by the cable run up to the sunvisor

Thats a good idea, however many radios have remote controls that are IR or radio so you can hide the head unit, others come with the control stalk for your steering colum

tyney

nice to be able to see the display especially if you are thinking about one of the bluetooth enabled ones. no sign of any modern technology, but hidden in the boot..........

overdriver

If you were trying to keep in with the peroid of the car, the correct method is a black flap of vinyl hanging down over the radio, which is screwed with self tappers to the underside of the passenger side of the dashboard!

andreas_220D

Becker Europa Mono, the Radio the car was delivered with in 1970.

alastair

I bought one of those Aldi/Medion stereos that have USB in and play MP3 CD's, and I'm trying to figure the best under-dash location in the Volvo 1800ES (no glovebox to take advantage of). The original radio is staying put, but MW/LW is a bit limiting :rolleyes:

This is the groovy retro stereo in the other yoke:

shagman

Hmm that panasonic unit would be a good modern retro unit if it wasn't for the silver colour.The dials look good but the brushed aluminium colour and font on the lettering let down the retro look.Maybe if you removed the face and sprayed it black or perhaps covered it in a nice wine vinyl with beige stitching? Embossed gold lettering perhaps?

alastair

There's a couple of chrome brackets missing off each side of that Panasonic / Nissan Pao stereo. It's probably too bulky to move into another car (I have a notion it has a built in battery, as the chrome brackets and 'outdoor' setting would seem to indicate it can be taken out of the car - but haven't given that an investigation).
Changing radio stations results in an entertaining spin of the dial. It's the simple pleasures.

The stereo in context:



I run an iPod into it via a Belkin adaptor, and that works fine.

ds20prefecture

tyney wrote:

I was contemplating taking a unit with a removable face, maybe a sony, and hardwiring the 6 connectors from the removable face to the unit with a decent shielded multicore. you could then (in theory) put the face off it on the back of the sunvisor, and stash the head unit out of sight, connected by the cable run up to the sunvisor. Anyone tried this?

A friend in Australia did exactly that with his DS, and I plan to do the same. My Blaupunkt's face is completely removable. You need to worry about voltage drop over the cable, depending on lenght.