Old Style Radio Wanted

M · Post by M » Sun May 27, 2007 9:37 am

Something along these lines really - if it can get Radio 4 I will be happy.

Anyone got anything like lurking in the shed?

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:51 am

A cricket fan?

M · Post by M » Sun May 27, 2007 9:54 am

No - I want to fit out my poverty spec TGD as it would have been when new. Besides I only usually listen to the wireless on my way to work, rarely do I listen to tapes / MP3.

mountainmanUK · Post by **mountainmanUK** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:09 am

Bluddy 'Ell Marty! I wish I'd known when I chucked out a boxfull of stuff at Christmas!

There was one just like that, that went in a skip...almost brand-new too.
I thought " I'm never gonna need an old thing like this", so out it went!

Only had two wires and an aerial socket on the back....very simple! I think it came out of an old Shuvvitt that I drove about 14 years ago.

Sorry!!

Edit: A few similar items on eBay right now, such as....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Radiomobile-1085X ... dZViewItem

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:35 am

Marty wrote:No - I want to fit out my poverty spec TGD as it would have been when new. Besides I only usually listen to the wireless on my way to work, rarely do I listen to tapes / MP3.

It would have had a LOT more modern radio than that mate being a 1990 I would envisage a clarion or most prob a blaupunkt radio/casette.

Something like this but probably more basic

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLAUPUNKT-MONTREA ... dZViewItem

My 16v had one of these when new

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/blaupunkt-car-rad ... dZViewItem

My dad had a new 19TGD in 91 which had a very simiar radio to the one above.

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:10 pm

Surely you would want a more modern unit? they are peanuts 2nd hand & are miles better for radio reception than old one's. The old one's always lose the station when the signal gets a bit weak, the newer one's kindof re-tune themselves so you never get that fading out effect....

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:02 pm

I'm a fan of the manual tuning models too - it seems easier to pick up a weak signal. The modern unit in my van just scans up and down without locking and in the daylight you can't even read the display - seems for every technological advance there's an accompanying reverse.

This was listed on German ebay last week from '91 BX14 and didn't sell( he's relisted it now)

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... :IT&ih=018

and there's this one, same era

http://cgi.ebay.de/Autokassettenradio-C ... dZViewItem

both units made by Grundig who supplied Citroen in Germany. Probably doesn't help Marty, just showing some examples. I'm looking too for period unit but I want four channels.

Does that mean that you got the BX back to yours then without setting off the missus?

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:16 pm

Never had any probs with my JVC that ive got, recently couldnt tune it in at all, total crock of xxxx, turned out that the ariel wasnt connected....i can now get radio 1 in crystal clear sound again, hurrah.....& my bluetooth is working again, thankyou halfrauds....