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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chrysler was the first with the Transistor radio in 1956, yes, 1963 Corvettes had optional AM/FM radios.
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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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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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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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Someone decided they didn't want to spend the extra money. |
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