Projects Vintage tunes?

Just installed this in my 37 Chevy p/u tonight,its a period Philco radio head that has a switch and will be used to turn off and on the stereo in the glove box. It lights up but not too noticable so I am going to look for a brighter bulb.

 

I like it. Now if you could make the volume work!

 

It would be nice for it to control the volume but its not going to happen,I have another project in the works where I will install a digital tuned shaft radio in a complete radio like that but might be a couple years before I get to it.

 

I plan to run a vintage vacuum tube radio in my coupe once I get to that stage. I can just run an aux cable to send signal from an iPod into it when I'm tired of AM talk radio (probably most of the time).

 

"Perfection is the enemy of the good enough"

 

very cool I just scored to factory option radio for mine on the bay for 20.50.

 

I was always against having a radio in my model a roadster (project) until I read that by 1946 about 9 million cars had radios. So I guess now it's all about finding something period that'll work (as a faux radio for the iPod).

 

Looks awesome. I love period correct radios.

 

I wish it would do more then just turn the stereo on and off and light up but I will have a full function one next winter.

 

I saw a guy at last years Mooneyes that had one just like this and he was playing an iPod thru it and it was LOUD but he refused to tell me how he did it :-/


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I have been using my stock '37 Chevy dial tuning to control a later am/fm for 20 years. On-off, volume, etc. Made adapters to hook up cables to shafts.