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Old 04-29-2013, 12:15 PM
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Cool ! Thanks for the info... I remember seeing some of the tube powered Becker radios, but I think the ones that I saw just had MW, LW and SW bands.

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Old 07-08-2013, 08:07 AM
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Chrysler offered the Delco radios in their '64 Chryslers and Imperials.
I wonder if the Black Beauty would have had a Delco radio originally. Same body style as the '64. Never heard of those in anything other than GM vehicles before.
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Old 07-08-2013, 10:58 AM
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I want to say the radio in our '62 Pontiac was tube, but was definitely transistor in our '64 Bonneville.
That one had 6x9's on the rear deck and it sounded great!
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Old 07-09-2013, 11:25 AM
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I wonder if the Black Beauty would have had a Delco radio originally. Same body style as the '64. Never heard of those in anything other than GM vehicles before.
If it was the AM/FM option it would have been. If it was one of the AM radios it was probably Motorola. Chrysler didn't start making their own radios until 1971. They got Saginaw power steering units from GM for a lot of years too.
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Old 07-09-2013, 12:49 PM
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No way to know without a Marti report for each car I guess. The radios were removed and custom block-off plates installed. The only difference I'm aware of between the cars, aside from slight variances in customization, is that the main car has Tilt-a-Scope steering and the backup car a non-tilt column.
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Old 07-10-2013, 12:36 PM
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If it was the AM/FM option it would have been. If it was one of the AM radios it was probably Motorola. Chrysler didn't start making their own radios until 1971. They got Saginaw power steering units from GM for a lot of years too.
My '82 Dodge Ramcharger had a Saginaw steering unit and it leaked like a sieve. I owned several MoPars prior to that one and never had one that leaked. I don't know who made the units in the earlier models.
Some early '70s MoPars used radios built by Philips of Canada.
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Old 07-10-2013, 06:45 PM
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I remember years ago, Broadcasting magazine would at the start of each model year, quoted Delco's unit cost for AM and AM/FM radios. I recall that in the mid-70's, the AM's cost $8 each and the AM/FM's cost $12...
Wow. It seems that I remember radios being an expensive option in cars in the late 70s or early 80s. I know for my '83 Dodge Shelby Charger, which was early in the move to decent factory car stereos, the basic AM/FM stereo radio was something like a $109 option. That is what was on the sticker. What they had installed, though, was the top-of-the-line digital AM/FM/auto-reverse cassette deck with Dolby noise reduction. THAT was supposed to be about a $450 option.
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With GM, the Cadillacs got optional FM/AM radios in 1963, Buick and Oldsmobile also got FM/AM available optionally in 1963. Chevrolet didn't get FM available until 1965. I figure Pontiac got FM optionally when Chevrolet did.
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With GM, the Cadillacs got optional FM/AM radios in 1963, Buick and Oldsmobile also got FM/AM available optionally in 1963. Chevrolet didn't get FM available until 1965. I figure Pontiac got FM optionally when Chevrolet did.
I believe that FM/AM was an option in '63 Corvettes as well.

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Chrysler was the first with the Transistor radio in 1956, yes, 1963 Corvettes had optional AM/FM radios.
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Old 11-04-2013, 09:32 PM
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Chrysler was the first with the Transistor radio in 1956, yes, 1963 Corvettes had optional AM/FM radios.
The Philco built all transistor radio first appeared in the 1957 Chrysler 300.
They only offered them for a year, as they were problematic. The next year they were using Bendix hybrids.
Dodge and Desoto used Motorola, where Plymouth used Philco and Motorola.
Philco was pretty much out of the picture after the 1958 model year.
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Old 11-05-2013, 11:27 AM
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Philco was pretty much out of the picture after the 1958 model year.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here... lots of Ford radios in the 60s and 70s had the name Philco on the dial. My 1975 Ford AM-FM 8-track stereos are so labeled.
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Old 11-07-2013, 08:35 AM
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here... lots of Ford radios in the 60s and 70s had the name Philco on the dial. My 1975 Ford AM-FM 8-track stereos are so labeled.
The statement was made regarding radios in Chrysler products!
I'm well aware of the fact that Ford used Philco built radios and other electronics in their cars. They bought Philco in 1962.
Philco radios, first started appearing in Ford products, around the 1965 model year.
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I remember a friend had an early 70's Chrysler product that had AM only with stereo 8 track.
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I remember a friend had an early 70's Chrysler product that had AM only with stereo 8 track.
There was an AM/FM 8 track available!
Someone decided they didn't want to spend the extra money.
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