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Helping ID a Radio
Could someone help me identify this radio? It is an AM/FM and their is a red dot in the middle when an FM Station is tuned in. (I think it’s FM stereo.). It is currently installed in a ‘68 GTO and I don’t know if it’s correct for the car. It has silver pre-set buttons but I was told A-bodies had black buttons and silver buttons came on big cars.
Any idea If this is a ‘68 radio or what year it is from? Car originally came with an AM only. Thank you, Ron |
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Photo of Radio
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You would need to remove that radio and check to see if it still has it's original Paper ID sticker on the side.
Also check and see, some of those 1960s stereo radios, the electronics to make them work were so large that the stereo radios needed an additional module besides what would fit inside of the normal radio chassis bolted into your dash. There is a wire plug-in from the radio to the module. It is very common now to see big car radios put into an A body car as the full size cars; it was more likely for someone to have a bunch of extra options on the car as those were more expensive type cars to begin with. A real GM A body AM-FM stereo radio for a 68 or 69 GTO or Lemans was a very rare radio when these cars were brand new and that radio is quite valuable today. (If complete, and working.) In my opinion 1968 and 1969 Pontiac Big car AM-FM stereo radios are slightly less valuable but still desirable.
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Peter Serio Owner, Precision Pontiac Last edited by Peter Serio; 11-18-2019 at 04:25 PM. Reason: spelling fix. |
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Radio Buttons
Is it true that the big car buttons were chrome while the a-bodies were black?
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'68-'70 Pontiac A-body AM-FM stereo versions are easy to spot as they required a separate multiplex unit which attached a small stamped steel bracket & bolted above the glovebox. A-body & '69-70 GP versions of the multiplex stereo will have a small heatsink with one power transistor on the back of the main unit as well as a small round ound female plug on a back corner which accepts the multi pin connector from the cable going to the small multiplex box. Numerous B series multiplex stereo's, going back to '67, had a large heatsink on the LH side of the stereo radio, it takes extensive work to make one of these B series AM-FM multiplex stereos into a '68 A-body AM-FM multiplex stereo. On your AM-FM Stereo unit, I'm betting it's a '71 or '72 one piece AM-FM stereo. Will be easy to spot, the heat sink on the rear is fairly large & has two power transistors, one above the other. Have own several dozen of these, GP versions had chrome buttons, the A-body versiins had black buttons.
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