RE: Adding aftermarket radios
ORIGINAL: RoswellGrey
Whatever happened to just hot-wiring the radio into the cigarette lighter and then running the speaker wires along the door kickplates to wherever you happened to mount the speakers on some convenient screws somewhere in the back? If it was good enough in the 70s, it should be good enough now.
Boy you really dug up a 2 year old thread to reply to. Anyways what was good in the '70s is not good enough now. That is like saying the 70's Challenger's technology is good enough for now and I certainly do not want a '70s Challenger.
The better radio systems have the head unit separate from the preamp which is separate from the amp then it connects to the speaker.
You could have low level preamp cables feeding the trunk which could be where your amp is. So feeding speakers wires to the trunk is not valid in this situation. Radio's of the '70s is certainly old school.
Now if a persons hearing is so bad because of gunshots or firecrackers, none of this matters anyway and maybe a '70s radio would be good enough.
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