Dear Barb, Walt, and mid-60s Buick audiophiles,
Thank you for all the useful information as always it gives me things to think about.
A modern radio/cd player can be had for under $100. You can mount it out of sight and control it with the remote. Put all your music on a usb stick and you don't even have to fuss with changing cd's!
If you want something a bit more oriented toward a classic, you can get a hidden radio like the one sold by Custom Autosound:
http://www.casmfg.com/Secretaudio.htmAs if you didn't have enough choices, there are now two competitors in the modern stereos that fit into classics market. There is Retrosound:
https://www.retromanufacturing.com/and Ken Harrison radios:
http://kenharrisonradios.com/I personally don't care for the look of the RetroSound stereos, but the Ken Harrison units look very period correct and have been updated last year with goodies like Bluetooth. Also, don't get hung up on the suggested retail price of these units because you find them heavily discounted in places like eBay.
It really boils down to how much effort you want to invest in making that part of your car feel good to you. You can toss a boombox on the back seat and that will give you music. If you have a numbers matching car, probably the only reasonable thing to do is to stick with the factory radio whatever it was. Even so, it is worth pondering that you can buy a stereo and speakers that will mount into exactly the original mono speaker and upgrade to stereo for the same footprint and minimal wiring. So long as you keep all those original component and document how you swapped things out, you could easily put back the factory parts with nobody knowing the difference.
It is nice to have all these choices - it is up to the individual classic car owner to decide what fits their style and budget.
x2 on the Walker Dynomax super turbos. One of the quieter performance mufflers.
No complaints on the mufflers . . . . except when the engine isn't running . . . . .
Cheers, Edouard
