OscarIndia

OscarIndia

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Looking for a big standard radio. No CD, no MP3, no dancing digital displays. Landy (soft top) couldn't be less secure and I only want to listen to Radio 4 anyway :)
Ideally I'd like one with dials and LW, so I can listen to Test Match Special, but I appreciate that's likely to be impossible.
Can't find one anywhere. Not Halfords, not specialists, not eBay. Everything's multi-function and looks like the flight deck of a 737. And thus will get nicked in a week (I leave it at the station car park every day).
Anyone have a thought as to where I might get such a rubbish item?
 
boot sales,second hand shops or classic car web sites.Ask your neighbours its amazing what people keep in shed garages. I will have a look in old mans garage he is good at putting stuff in there instead of the bin.
 
I'd try an old fashioned scrap yard, if such a thing still exists in your part of the world.
 
How about a simple amp n speakers with a jack lead, then you plug a pocket radio/pod/phone into it as you fancy. Amps are really cheap. Nothing in sight at all then.
 
I'm sure i'll have an old analogue radio in the garage, I'm away till after new year but if you remind me after the 2nd i'll have a look.
If you pay the postage you can have one.
I know there is at least an old Audiovox radio that was fitted to my boat when I got it and it did work when removed, there are also Ford radio cassettes amongst all the other stuff.
 
I have a radio casette not too old but unlikely to attract the interest of the local chavs. & it's got a removable front.
 
Thanks very much all for the advice, directions and offers. Local scrap dealer has come through though. Has a face-off unit which has all the gubbins but should solve the chav problem. £20 including two speakers and "an aerial if I can find a car with one on - not seen an actual aerial for decades".
 
Oscar india, pay the postage and Ill send you my spare down. Bog standard aerial with whip with a good couple o meters of cable and the appropriate connector on the end.
 
DuncanS said:
Oscar india, pay the postage and Ill send you my spare down. Bog standard aerial with whip with a good couple o meters of cable and the appropriate connector on the end.
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Thanks Duncan but am now sorted. On which note, found the most incredible place. Thought it was a scrap yard but it's not really, it's a bloke who has the most brilliant car collection. On the ramps when I arrived was a Ford Grand Turismo (Sp?) in Starskey & Hutch paint job. In the barn was a racing hearse, the total set from The Dukes of Hazzard (Boss Hog Cadillac, Daisy's Jeep and the General Lee, the latter made from a Jag XJ40), police cars, all sorts. He basically spends his days building projects for a laugh and flogs off bits he doesn't need. Garage even has a den, with pool table and Xbox, and seats made from BMW 5 Series nose units.
On the LR front, he has three items for sale. Blue Disco 1 in seemingly excellent nick which he just bought but has decided not to do what he planned with, what looks to me to be an MOD issue hood for a 90 in the usual green and in almost new nick and one of those huge shooting frames for a 90 for guns to shoot from.
Amazing find. I left him overseeing the blokes building his recording studio. Lovely bloke.
Got a JVC face-off, two big speakers from him and nipped in to the local motor shop on the way back and got a aerial with all the required bits. £25 spent. :cool:
 
Anyone know where I can source one o they bog standard placcy car radio housings? Not available anywhere far as I can see.
 
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