andrew e Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Blow the local Barry's into next tuesday with these 1000000000 Watts of MUSAC POWER* *autoshite is not responsible for your pop riveted cover sills grenading when you turn up to eleven. Bonus points if you know who Trio are now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Kenwood or Alpine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross_K Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Bonus points if you know who Trio are now Kenwood, I do believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Tis Kenwood. They even kept the little red triangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Fantastic, but I want to see how many red lights Sanyo's £219.95 1984 range-topper boasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Car Stereo shite!!...Loving it.My old Scimitar boasts an Amstrad radio cassette deck - I didn't know they even made such a thing until I got the car (and I'm old enough to have been around when they were). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Re Kenwood, my mother used to wonder why young men used to drive around with the name of a kitchen mixer manufacturer across the top of their windscreens . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Funny you should say that, I was momentarily confused when it emerged that Kenwood as a sound brand had only been around since sometime in the 80s, when I have a Dinky Ford Transit model with Kenwood on the side which comes from the 60s or 70s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I've a few similar ads in some of the 80's "Autocar" mags I have laying around, one of them has a supplement of Audio equipment and CD players when they cost something like £750 to buy! including those car-phones! Lord Sterling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelvin2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Audioline now theres a quality car stereo and dont forget to add the 10 channel graphic with built in amp you connected to the speaker output wires( no line outs needed) all in chrome metal look! CDs? what are they? you want cassette with auto reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aled Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 one of my cars has still got an 8 track in it another has a sharp -will get photos a.s.a.p.i remember having a sharp radio casette with a audioline graphic and audioline speakers in a 1966 - 1725 hillman hunter - with furry dash - real shite in the early 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Potent 12 watts a channel? How the f*** were you ever going to hear that over an A series engine or Ford OHC camshaft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 There's a difference between Amstrad/Goodmans/Audioline watts and real watts. 12 real watts is about 100 Amstrad watts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 The Ford self-seek rad/cass unit I've just put back in my 1986 Fiesta Ghia is rated at a mahoosive 3 watts x 2 channels, presumably that's all that the balance-fade joystick could take. Don't want to blow those paper 4 watt speakers now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 mid 80's ford speakers are atrociously terrible. I've ripped them out of my capri and stuck a set of JBLs in instead.They make speakers to fit the original holes for old fords that sound a hell of a lot better.I paid something like £20 for a pair to replace the fronts on ebay, and have mounted an 80's-tastic set of goodmans speakers atop the parcel shelf in the back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 You think they were bad, my late 80's Rover 800's speakers were simply horrible, only 8 watts per speaker hooked up to a woefully underpowered old Sony CD player with 20 watts output, they blew the Rovers 8 watts speakers to dust. The one in my Rover Sterling now is much better, it can actually handle bass, the whole set up is standard but sound great. The best standard set up I've some across so ar must be the Vauxhall Vectra, handles bass like no ones business. Lord Sterling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted November 16, 2008 Author Share Posted November 16, 2008 Shame Vectras couldn't handle roundabouts mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 As my £200 Polo almost passed the MoT I can justify spending some cash to get some BANGIN CHUNES. It's got a normal DIN slot and 2 tiny speakers in the back, and as I don't want the car broken into, a cheap radio is in order. Busting my Bassline on ebay at the moment are these fine specimens An Audioline which seems to have all the essential features - a radio and a cassette deck so I can plug in my mp3 with a cassette adaptor. It would be about right for the 1987 Polo too. Or there's this one... A JPS stereo out of a Lotus JPS car Probably no mounting bracket, and digital autoseek tuners were a bit dodgy back then, but it's a stylish bit of kit and no mistake! What is the shite radio of choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I love these shite old radios, they always seem to make decent money on the bay though, like £20 or something. I would expect to pay about £2 as that was the going rate at the car boot sale I used to frequent 15 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 My mate had a stereo with a pretend PLL tuner. It had a digital display but you turned a proper tuning knob to tune it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 LOL, I had one of those! Goodmans or Longmill or similar useless chod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I remember trying to wire 4 speakers into my Uno's stereo - trying to set the balance sent the sounds zooming diagonally across the car. In the end I fitted some "high quality" speakers in the back with some punies in the door and set the balance control to centre to get that perfect surround sound for my 80s tunes ... Now if only I'd had Westwood and his crew to hand ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 The best standard set up I've some across so ar must be the Vauxhall Vectra, handles bass like no ones business.You've obviously never heard the "Premium Sound System" in a Volvo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I've got a Pyeâ„¢ radio cassette player that my brother bought back in 1985 or thereabouts. Digital tuning but with an LED that travelled across the traditional tuning dial - none of that twirling the tuning knob anymore, just turn it clockwise and watch the magic LED travel across the scale. Class.Now all I need is the right car to fit it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 My Audi 90 had the optional extra speakers... there were two thin subs mounted under the parcel shelf, with pipes through into the car. Each speaker grille hid a midrange and a seperate tweeter. Sounded awesome, think it was branded as Nokia or something equally weird!For those people wanting a retro looking stereo but without relying on casettes, have a look at the FM transmitters you can get for iPods/generic MP3 players. They either plug into the specific iPod conenctor or into any old headphone socket, and broadcast your choons on an FM frequency of your choosing. My phone has one built in so I can set an album playing, wang it in the cupholder, and tune the stereo into it. Even comes up as "NOKIA" in the RDS display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 My Audi 90 had the optional extra speakers... there were two thin subs mounted under the parcel shelf, with pipes through into the car. Each speaker grille hid a midrange and a seperate tweeter. Sounded awesome, think it was branded as Nokia or something equally weird!Probably. The speakers in my BMW are Nokia ones. I attempted to replace thme yesterday with someting newer and more musical (less 1992 tinny tiny!), however it ended in epic fail due to the speaker adapters not being supplied with fitting insturctions. I'll have another go in a bit, now I know I wasn't doing it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Normally, you get some plastic rings which screw into place where the old speakers went. The new speakers then screw into a different set of holes in the ring.Which size are you going from/to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I have tonnes of old stereos (not literally) in the garage. It's good to see them again when the last time I put them away because they were shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Normally, you get some plastic rings which screw into place where the old speakers went. The new speakers then screw into a different set of holes in the ring.yeah, that's what I thought. Though it turns out these work differently, sussed it now - and pleasingly I have been able to re-fit the original speaker grilles, much more pleasing/subtle than some massive speaker brashly announcing it's presence on the shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 My Volvo had a VHF Blaupunkt fitted in 1969 that cost almost as much as the car did. It had mono sound (10W speaker), one on the parcel shelf and one at the back in the center of the parcel shelf, with a pan pot below the radio so you could have more mono in the back or more in the front. It's being refurbed ATM, as I think if I had it on with the wipers and the headlights on a rainy night and then tried to reverse, my generator would do an Apollo 13 and spazz itself. Celeste has a fitted LW \ MW radio, that can pick up Magic 828, the Piazza now has the Alpine out of mi 306 in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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