RE: PH blog: crazy radios
Discussion
msport said:
I managed to find the book a few of you are talking about - "Dream Cars", I knew I'd still got it somewhere.
Here's a picture of the inside of a shocking Merc 500SL, by Koenig, even back in the 80s it must have look awful!
I remember this book being mentioned in a thread years ago, and recalled that I had it too. It took me a few years searching mine, my parents and my grandparents lofts but I did eventually find it!Here's a picture of the inside of a shocking Merc 500SL, by Koenig, even back in the 80s it must have look awful!
shirleynot said:
Maybe the driver shouldn't be changing station at all, maybe the driver should be concentrating on actually driving the car, not pissing around with stupid gadgets? 
Whilst I'd be the first person to agree that some drivers could pay a lot more attention to what they're doing, driving isn't so hard as to demand 100% of your attention - there's brain cycles to spare for things like radio stations and heater controls (if not, perhaps, TV programmes, the Internet, shaving, lipstick and eating bacon sandwiches).Twincam16 said:
Not visually interesting, but unusual as I discovered lately - the Mk2 Toyota MR2 appears to have its radio where you'd expect, in the middle of the dashboard.
However, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
What gubbins are you talking about? On both the Mk2 MR2's I owned it was just a standard single DIN stereo in the normal placeHowever, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
jdubbya said:
How about the MK I Range Rover?
I seem to remember It was conveniently under the steering wheel on the right by the door, so your knee did all the necessary changes to the tunes.
and later moved to interestingly angled in front of the gear stick(s) didn't appear in the correct place until they started putting the Discovery derived 'soft dash' in them I seem to remember It was conveniently under the steering wheel on the right by the door, so your knee did all the necessary changes to the tunes.
Twincam16 said:
Not visually interesting, but unusual as I discovered lately - the Mk2 Toyota MR2 appears to have its radio where you'd expect, in the middle of the dashboard.
However, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
which is something that the makers of 2-way radios have been doing since the days of yore - admittedly because the gubbins for a PYE Westminster were huge , but it all started to come back in the 1990s with various PMR makers - the really clever ones offering dual heads for ambulances etc ( control head in the cab and in the rear )However, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
Wadeski said:
If you eject the cassette in the T-bar porsche, does it fall on your head?
if so, thats awesome.
if so, thats awesome.
Reminds me of a fantastic Alpine head unit I had in an old 323i. It was outstanding in all respects bar the apparent need to spit the cassette into the rear of the car when ejected.
dasherdiablo1 said:
Images like this go to show how far car design has come on. The only lines that aren't square on that AR 75 are the steering wheel - absolutely horrid! Who in their right mind would have gone into a dealer and thought 'I know what I'll do I'll speand my hard earned cash on an unreliable Italian car with a rubbish interior'.
Because some of us like sharp lines and angles, the 75 is nowhere near as badly made and unreliable as rumour would have you believe, and it's one of the only four-door saloons I can think of that's engineered like a sports car - and I mean a proper race-derived thing with a rear-mounted transaxle gearbox and inboard rear disc brakes rather than an S-line Audi with a bodykit.I'd love one, especially a Turbo Evoluzione.
ziggy1024 said:
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
I used to loooooove that book as a boy.
Car Porn. 80's styleeeee
(daft Sbarro anyone?)
Would you ever have heard of an Isdera Imperator otherwise?!Car Porn. 80's styleeeee
(daft Sbarro anyone?)
Mine must be in the loft at my mum's house - I will find it!
Oh 84p online! Sold
Who did the Ferrari's? Koinig... something?
Anything to do with the Keonigsegg?
furtive said:
Twincam16 said:
Not visually interesting, but unusual as I discovered lately - the Mk2 Toyota MR2 appears to have its radio where you'd expect, in the middle of the dashboard.
However, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
What gubbins are you talking about? On both the Mk2 MR2's I owned it was just a standard single DIN stereo in the normal placeHowever, only the control unit is there. For reasons best known to Toyota, the actual gubbins of the stereo is hidden in the passenger-side B-pillar.
If it rains on them with the passenger door open, water gets into it and shorts out various bits. As a result, mine was draining its battery and had to be fitted to a relay connected to the ignition circuit to make sure that when the engine was off, the stereo was too.
According to the electricians who fitted it, the system was updated on later models, but if the amp was well and truly f
kered getting a replacement unit is near-impossible and fitting a new DIN head unit requires a complete rewiring of the original eight-speaker system.
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