Looking for an original stereo?

hmmmm maybe your PO was the same PO my 69 had...

http://www.ramva.org/dragenwagen/pics/69vw064.jpg

http://www.ramva.org/dragenwagen/pics/69vw059.jpg

and his brother must have not been as creative... single hole hacked in
under the dash:

http://www.ramva.org/dragenwagen/pics/66wagen020.jpg

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1966 Type I - Daily Driver
1969 Type I - Undergoing heater channel replacement
http://www.ramva.org/dragenwagen
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"cloud8" > wrote in message
. ..
> Michael Cecil > wrote in
> news >
> > I know my 70 bug just had a Sapphire AM only radio. Stereo
> wouldn't
> > have worked too well with just the one dashboard speaker anyhow.
> >
> > Did VW use different radios in the same model cars? Were they
> > standard or dealer options?
>
> My '70 had a Sapphire AM-FM that worked like $H14. But it
> wasn't stereo. The PO removed the original speaker from the
> dash and mounted speakers in holes he had cut in each side
> wall about half way up from the floor.
>
> --
> Bill Merrill
> Arlington, Mass.
> '70 Convertible

Juper Wort wrote:
> "P.J.Berg" > wrote in message
> news:WxcOd.1622$Mw3.30@amstwist00...
>> P.J.Berg wrote:
>>> Michael Cecil wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:25:53 GMT, Red Bug >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <weVNd.1561$Mw3.868@amstwist00>,
>>>>> "P.J.Berg" > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not even sure when it hit the houshold market...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd say quite early... We have a TUBE stereo FM radio (and AM of
>>>>> course) that still works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just found this on the web:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Zenith pioneered AM and FM radio broadcasting -- including the
>>>>> invention of the stereo FM radio broadcast system, authorized by
>>>>> the Federal Communications Commission in 1961 and still in use
>>>>> worldwide."
>>>>
>>>> I know my 70 bug just had a Sapphire AM only radio. Stereo
>>>> wouldn't have worked too well with just the one dashboard speaker
>>>> anyhow.
>>>>
>>>> Did VW use different radios in the same model cars? Were they
>>>> standard or dealer options?
>>>
>>> I would say sealer options since different markets got different
>>> radios... Saphire, Phillips and Blaupunkt etc.
>>>
>>> J.
>>
>> Hrmph, sould read "Dealer option"
>>
>> J.
>>
>
> Should read "should"
>
> James

You Win, I loose!

I'll buy you a pint if youre close enough.. :0)

J

"P.J.Berg" > wrote in message
news:UYxOd.1684$Mw3.543@amstwist00...
> Juper Wort wrote:
> > "P.J.Berg" > wrote in message
> > news:WxcOd.1622$Mw3.30@amstwist00...
> >> P.J.Berg wrote:
> >>> Michael Cecil wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:25:53 GMT, Red Bug >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> In article <weVNd.1561$Mw3.868@amstwist00>,
> >>>>> "P.J.Berg" > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm not even sure when it hit the houshold market...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'd say quite early... We have a TUBE stereo FM radio (and AM of
> >>>>> course) that still works fine.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just found this on the web:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Zenith pioneered AM and FM radio broadcasting -- including the
> >>>>> invention of the stereo FM radio broadcast system, authorized by
> >>>>> the Federal Communications Commission in 1961 and still in use
> >>>>> worldwide."
> >>>>
> >>>> I know my 70 bug just had a Sapphire AM only radio. Stereo
> >>>> wouldn't have worked too well with just the one dashboard speaker
> >>>> anyhow.
> >>>>
> >>>> Did VW use different radios in the same model cars? Were they
> >>>> standard or dealer options?
> >>>
> >>> I would say sealer options since different markets got different
> >>> radios... Saphire, Phillips and Blaupunkt etc.
> >>>
> >>> J.
> >>
> >> Hrmph, sould read "Dealer option"
> >>
> >> J.
> >>
> >
> > Should read "should"
> >
> > James
>
> You Win, I loose!
>
> I'll buy you a pint if youre close enough.. :0)
>
> J
>

closer than them Yanks !

James