cjhillman
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1979 Capri (Rolling Project) 1985 Escort mk3 (Daily)
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I went to pick up my old record player from a service a few weeks back and the guy in the shop told me he fits Bluetooth and did FM conversions to old car stereos. He had a bunch of old radio and 8 track car decks. At the time I didn't think much of it as the charm of my old car is its stuck in 1985. Recently I started thinking how useful it might be so there's no need to use cassette adapters and I can hear radio 2.
Can anyone tell me more about these conversations, if they work well, do they sound good, are they usually expensive etc?
Chris
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captain70s
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Purveyor of knackered Triumphs
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Generally that just means he'll gut the radio's original internals, replace them with modern stuff and wire up the fascia buttons/knobs to work. Sound quality depends on what components the guy uses, but I'd imagine/hope it'd be better than a set from 1985!
If you are happy with the sound quality of your cxurrent head unit you could just have a 3.5 aux jack wired in, usually fairly simple to do and a fair bit cheaper. If you had a 3.5 jack you could also plug in a little portable radio receiver to get FM, not sure how great reception would be inside a car though...
My 1300 has a modern head unit and it looks dire, the 1850 doesn't have a radio at all at the moment aside from a DAB portable sitting in the passenger seat! I'm tempted to re-fit a period radio in the 1850 for show and hide a modern amp with a 3.5 jack somewhere to receive my mp3 player, seems as I rarely listen to the radio anyway...
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Currently Own: '77 Dolomite 1300 - Heap of BL flavoured junk. '76 Dolomite 1850 - Log book still in my name, 200 miles away. '83 Triumph Acclaim - Reliable daily Honda. '05 Honda Civic - Unreliable dead Honda.
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