CB Radios in retro cars?

Cracking Idea - I had 3 CB's in the early 80's when I was 12 onwards. One in bedroom, one in shed & one in Dads Talbot Alpine. We even had a 22 foot aerial mounted to a pole in the garden. I was forever playing with the SWR meter to gain range, clarity etc. Cyanide Sid was my Handle lol.

My CB handle back in the day was Quatermass funnily enough.

We only had a car rig, and I used to sit in the car running the battery down every night if my dad wouldn't take me out to drive round arranging "eyeballs".

We made friends with a bloke who was the resident care taker of a block of flats, so he and his family lived in the flats, and he alone had the keys to the roof. Naturally he'd stuck an enormous, illegal antenna up there and had FM with boosters and an AM rig hidden away. The police used to triangulate AM signal sources so that was only ever used very rarely.

He was the bloke who I've recently mentioned in another thread because he had a customised Marina Coupe.

I'm getting a CB. If it is indeed possible, I'm going to get and AM, it a hybrid AM/FM if they still do those.

I'd say that's the very opposite of excessive. How else are you supposed to use your CB radio? It's pretty much the actions of a miser to skimp on the car.

Loads of my mates had them, some as I remember with the ‘twig’ mounted on a quality street tin in their bedroom, if they weren’t quite old enough to have a car.
I never had one & tbh, never quite got it either.

some modern units are pretty small and discreet...I had a cracker that fitted in the ashtray slot in my samurai...till some thieving rse-wipe nicked it one night!!!

Come on Hillbilly, get another one. I'll talk to you.

Imagine all the utter tosh I type on here, being beamed vocally right into the heart of a Camaro in a thick brummy accent. It's the stuff great movies are made of.

this is what yud be needing for a modern car a jaws mk2 v small and compact

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaws-Mark-2-CB-Radio-Transceiver-Retro-CB/253304970316?hash=item3afa271c4c:g:1xIAAOSw5VtaLW3o

lol

ivehadmost cb"s from jaws 2 to midlands to ham internatinal concorde/jumbo ?multimode etc staying up all night chatting to mates etc

Just think of the RR Gathering at Goodwood in May... everyone chatting away. It's going to be great GET ONE QUICKLY NOW MAKE SURE YOU ALL GET THE SAME FREQUENCY SET UP.

Think of this scenario...

You've travelled hundreds of miles to be at RRG/G. Your fine retro jalopy has coped very well, but as you near your destination, there's a strange noise, a wobble, a hesitation. Next thing you know, an assembly of brass governors have have fallen out of your exhaust pipe and your high final drive is slapping violently against the Brockston housing. Three of your wheels fly off onto land with strict trespassing prohibitions and you aren't sure how long you can remain balanced on the final wheel now that your Offelblancher has over-heated and melted the vacuum cleaner manuscript.

It all looks grim. All your best laid plans look like they're coming apart at the last furlong. In a last desperate attempt to wrest control over the situation, you smash your windscreen out with a stilleto heel and urinate into the air scoop. Sadly, it doesn't improve anything. For you, the journey is over.

But suddenly you remember!... nil desperandum!... you reach for the trusty mic that smells like a dead man's lungs and press that trusty enormous plastic trigger...

"Breaker breaker 1:4 for a copy come on... 1:4 for a copy we got ourselves a code 9 on the A23 y'all got your ears on? come on over and under and over break a beaker?"

"10:4 good buddy we got you loud and clear what's the problem good buddy come on over beaker beaky"

"10:4 good buddy buddy got your smile on my dial and smokey up the pokey come on major major we got us a major problem over here... only one wheel left, we lost the governors, and the manuscript is melting over over come on beaky beaker 10:4 10:4 over"

"10:4 copy that good buddy sounds pretty terrible wotsits frazzles breaky breakface under over"

"Wondering if we can eyeball at the Cridgely underpass with some tools and some good buddies to fix this mess over over alhambra lala bamba come on"

"10:4 10:4 good buddy copy that but sadly not possible, we're all eating hamburgers and having a nice time good buddy over over. Call the RAC you tight minge, don't kill our buzz with your crappy car problems okay 10:4 out"

The line goes dead as you get crushed by a freight locomotive running wild down the backstreets of Sussex.

Without CB radios, none of that is possible.