Retro stereos..

I would be interested in this too quite possibly....

A stereo guy i was chatting to the other day mentioned being able to connect a bluetooth unit of some kind into my existing stero. and it would work as it always has plus be able to stream music. as i was after the same thing i wanted to keep my mw/lw only stereo and have modern functionality without it being noticable.

a quick ebay search brings up those retro look stereos tho.

Or, just adapt the head unit for a 3.5mm back as mentioned above, get one of these;

www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/121857280741

Wire up a charger behind the dash so it's always on charge, using of of these;
www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/181891109925

And you've got Bluetooth connection for about a tenner, although no charger. Well actually, the charger in the link above has two USB ports, so there's the phone charger!

Have a look at this site www.classiccarstereo.co.uk . May be able to help.

He does sell on Evilbay as well

Used to dabble with them. No longer bother as it wasn't worth the effort. Couple of ways to do it:
1: gut all of the internals and fit new (you can get fairly cheap little 12v amps with radio tuner, line in/outs off of ebay or you could scratch build using decoders, audio amp, radio tuner kits from maplin, r.s. and the like
2: attach direct to the volume pot if it's an old radio (you may need to use some resistors to reduce i/p level down to something that won't clip once it goes to the amplifier stage.) Probably the most crude method, and you essentially play over the top of the tuners signal, so you may hear both sources at low volume.
3: The method I favoured was to trace back to the amplifier i/c (integrated circuit i.e. little black chip) and connect direct to the input legs of the chip (again you may need to use resistors to drop the signal)and work out a way to kill the radio tuner signal. This was normally achieved using a simple switch to cut the input from the radio tuner. To give you a clue, on a majority of cassette players the cassette often triggers a small micro-switch when you insert the tape to kill the radio tuner. Be warned though, if you leave a cassette in the deck whilst using your newly cobbled together aux i/p you can end up recording onto the cassette, as I found out one day when testing a radio I had modded!

Loads of info out there on the internet. That's where I got most of my info from. There are lots of people on ebay who sell these sort of vitange and retro radios already modded for not much money, hence why I can no longer be bothered with the hassle.

It's VW

I reckon you would have problems with that modulator: Frequencies 87.9 FM and 88.3 FM

It's probably going to have some interesting distortion and whistles due to the closeness of the Radio 2 frequencies.

The problem is that with radio 2 you don't often need an aerial as the signal is so strong!! The bit of wire that connects the convertor to the stereo will probably do a good job as an aerial itself!!

Just something to beware of if anyone is considering buying one.

I have a cheap and nasty one that can be tuned to broadcast on any frequency between 87 and 108MHz. It's a shame they didn't put the same range on this one.

i got one of these taped to the back of my stereo, it hijacks an fm channel and streams my phone music on said fm chanel 8)