<VV> Radio upgrade

[Norman C. Witte]

Wade, thanks.  For the cost I had hoped to get some unbiased reporting
before I went for it.  I have three old cars and I think I could see myself
doing this in all three eventually.

Norm 

-----Original Message-----
From: WadeHalsey [mailto:HiHal at adelphia.net] 
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:34 AM
To: Norman C. Witte
Cc: 'VirtualVairs'
Subject: Re: <VV> Radio upgrade

Norman C. Witte wrote:

>http://www.antiqueautomobileradio.com/stereoF.htm
>
>This company takes your original radio--could be AM or AM/FM, doesn't
>matter--and guts it, replacing the chassis with a four channel, digitally
>tuned AM/FM tuner.  The look stays absolutely stock and it can be run in
>mono mode.  
>
>I was wondering if anyone has done this.  It's not cheap, but I like the
>concept a lot, because it gives all the functionality without losing the
>stock look.  With a better than stock speaker, this looks like an ideal
>option for my convertible.
>
Norm, I have a 56 Thunderbird and am on the Classic Thunderbird forum.
Quite a few T-Bird owners have had this modification done to their 
radios and I can't remember anyone posting a complaint about it. Keep in 
mind that the mid 50's radios were 9 tube with a vibrator. These also 
had features like signal seeking and automatic volume control (volume 
increased with vehicle speed) and these features made the radios even 
more unreliable.

To sum it up, T-Bird owners who drive their cars rather than showing 
them in pure stock class seem to like everything except the price and 
even that hasn't caused much grumbling.

Wade Halsey
Silver 69 Monza and Silver 56 T-Bird