Roger Walling

Kerrmudgeon, with your fine collection of avatars, I would think that you could not find time to listen to a radio.

Frankie the Fink

You can get a Bose mini-Soundlink for $189 (get the optional rubber cover for stability) and place it on your dash or behind you. 8 hours of battery life and play Pandora off your phone. No wiring required, no cutting and you can take it with you to Kermudgeon's bikini beach parties.

Ironcross

I am probably the only one on the forum that did order a 63 coupe as a new item.....And it was ordered without a radio because it was never requested as a option...it was {RADIO} a option just the same as a FI option....Didm`t order it , never got it....111202

Apparently its a little known fact...and a heater had to be special ordered also until it became standard in the 61 model......it was not until around the 78 model did a radio become standard....Here you could delete a radio and even get the money back


OOPs NO antenna either......




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Rob Magnano

I have a busted waterfall I'd sell
You could use it as a template.
Email me your info and I'll send you a picture.
robmagnano@hotmail.com

mattba

I think you are convinced not to do this, but if you ever want to sell your radio delete waterfall, let me know. I will buy it, sell my radio, shielding, and antenna, fill and paint the antenna hole and have myself a radio delete tribute car!

TCracingCA

Find more entertaining passengers!
Find a passenger that can sing!
Just text while driving to keep yourself busy!
Get headers!
Buy an MP3 walkman!
Pull up next to people at a light that have good music playing!
Play that particular song that sticks in your head, prior to leaving the house!
ETC.

mattba

One more: Add side pipes and forget being able to hear any radio anyway!

emccomas

Old68;

What year car are you talking about. I must have missed that somewhere.

An original radio delete car would not have an antenna, or a hole for one.

sub006

But, AHEM! my '64 Shriner (purchased used at 16,000 original miles in 1966) came with no radio but FULL ignition shielding. I always thought the FCC or a similar government agency required it so as not to interfere with the radio reception of other drivers near you.

I think the shielding mandate eventually went away as car radio technology improved (my Panasonic radio in the trunk sounds crystal clear and I don't run the shielding anymore), but I do believe that was some time AFTER 1967.

OEM trivia experts please chime in!

RatDog

My wife gave me one of those Bose units for Christmas (with orders that I can't take it to Kermudgeon's bikini beach parties). I like the Bose but I have a lot of trouble with my iPod 6 dropping the Pandora signal. When the signal is good, the Bose sounds great and I can hear it over the sound of my side pipes if I turn it all the way up.



-- Steve

Frankie the Fink

The shielding and radio capacitors were chiefly for AM signal interference reduction; FM is much less susceptible to such noise. The shielding was overkill anyway. How many other '60s cars with AM radio had this extra metal around the ignition system ?

I drove first generation Mustangs for years with AM radios and NOTHING was shielded externally...

I'm not a trivia expert but I haven't heard of any early C2s without the radio option but WITH the shielding...

MikeM

The correct answer is in the AIM.

PS. I added the shielding to my no radio '65 years ago just because......

It wasn't hard to do.

PSS. When you bought a dealer install radio kit, the complete ignition shielding came with it along with a template to cut the dash and the antenna location. If you see an antenna located in the wrong place on the deck (as some were), you can bet the antenna was added AFTER the car left the factory.

sub006

Frankie, your Mustangs' ignition noise was shielded by their STEEL bodies, like all non-fiberglass cars.

The guy I bought my '64 from in 1966 had another no-radio Shriner, a 1963, which also came with shielding. Besides the uncut waterfall, my car also had NO hole in the rear deck, and no patch underneath.

Maybe St. Louis installed shielding on Shriners so they wouldn't interfere with audience or police radio or PA systems in parades or the football stadiums where they sometimes did close-order drills at halftime?

Frankie the Fink

Really ? Sure makes you wonder why you can buy concourse radio noise suppression plug wires for 65/66 Mustangs then ?

I have not read about a '63 Shriner car in any book I have, nor, have I heard of it on here before...and I don't know why it would be delivered any differently...but I'll take your word for it.. MikeM might have answered that tho...

JohnZ

The Shriners used hand-held walkie-talkie radios to coordinate their formation and parade activities, and having their cars built with radio shielding probably improved the clarity of their reception.

kenba

Don't know if any metal car in the 50'S/60'S that came with any kind of radio noise suppression. I believe the steel fire wall did what the shielding dose.

MikeM

Carbon core spark plug wires, capacitor on the voltage regulator. I think a capacitor on the blower motor and turn signals. Just don't remember all the places.

sub006

This explanation makes sense, once again we are indebted to THE guru of early Corvette standard production and the variations that drive CF members crazy several decades later.

sub006

When a dozen guys were committed to buying a dozen cosmetically identical Sting Ray convertibles at the very start of EVERY year's production, they could get all kinds of unique little extras. For instance, the yellow '66 Shriners received black vinyl curtains with a center zipper that hid the luggage area behind the seats from prying eyes.

sircharles007

1979

What ghetto box?