Monthly Archives: October 2025

Radio Installation part 2

Once the filler plate was installed on the radio a bit of fiddling was needed to adjust the width and depth of the volume and tuner shafts. The RetroSound adjustable mounting brackets supported these adjustments, producing a good fit. Support … Continue reading

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Radio Installation

A box from RetroSound showed up. Schlep it out to the workshop. Remove the old radio. Dig out the RetroSound bezel and carefully unwrap it. Do a trial fit to see if it goes in the dash cutout. It fits! … Continue reading

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RetroSound

There is another alternative for radios: RetroSound makes a line of modular radios designed to go in old cars. They do this by providing a radio body (which they call a motor), a set of bezels that contain the display … Continue reading

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New Radio Considerations

If I want tunes in the Imperial the current radio has to go. There are several ways to do this. The cleanest approach would be to get another 1963 Imperial radio. A working one one be expensive. And this still … Continue reading

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