radio for 73 Jav.....

Definitely do the wiring now so you have simple upgrade options down the line. Once you find out that those old amps and EQ work, you'll be ready to rock. I know I'd be itching to get 'em all hooked up and pounding. ;D

I've always thought that Polk made pretty good stuff and have considered these component speakers in the past. They're by no means "pro" but mounting depth (1 - 13/16") is about as shallow as I've come across and the price is decent. I recently ordered from Crutchfield and they got my order correct and shipped VERY fast (2-3 days).

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_107DB6502/Polk-Audio-DB-6502.html?tp=64033

I feel your pain on the yard work! We built a house last summer and moved in at the beginning of November. I have an acre of lawn to seed, a vegetable garden to "create" and the dozen fruit trees for my wife's "orchard" will arrive late next week. I'm trading my efforts for a week off to attend the Auburn AMO event - LOL. A fair deal, I'd say...

billd wrote: purple72Gremlin wrote: billd wrote:   Both the original cluster and the replacement have identical openings - exactly 2" tall. No diff at all. There were no speakers in the door, no speakers in the rear deck, not a sign of the car ever having had a radio at all. Even the antenna is a cheap after-market thing.  Just curious. My 1974 Gremlin is a radio delete. It still has the radio delete plate in the opening. AND it does not have a hole for the anntenna.... Does your car have a hole for the antenna? Like I said - even the antenna is a cheap after-market thing. So it has an owner-installed cheap antenna. Either the PO made a hole, or there was a hole and he replaced the original. Who knows. Since the radio it had wasn't fully installed, not when I got the car, anyway, and the dash's original speaker bracket was completely missing - I'll never know, I guess. If that bracket had been there I could tell if it had a speaker in it at one time. I can say for certain - there were never any speakers in the rear deck, there were never any speakers in the doors. The question will always remain - did it have an AM only radio and speaker only in the dash - or no radio?

ok. I was just wondering

Bet the car just had AM like my Rambler, Bill.  Kind of odd though, given the model year.  FM was catching on by that point.

One thing I'm still not following though, Bill...

As best I can tell skimming the thread, it seems like you're jumping thru all these hoops to fit a modern stereo unit into the car.  Why not just get a modern stereo that's designed to fit your Javelin from either Vintage Car Radio or RetroSound.  Both sites have some great options that would fit in my Rambler.  RetroSound even has Sirius XM capable radios, LOL.


Vintage I can't tell if they have anything.  There's just 4 radios for all AMCs

http://www.vintagecarradio.com/


RetroSound has some really nice looking decks that specifically say they'd fit your car though:

https://www.retromanufacturing.com/collections/all/1973+amc+javelin


Addenda: If you're just looking to keep the radio out of sight for anti-theft reasons, both sites have great options on hidden radios too


Edited by rms827 - Apr/24/2018 at 7:16pm

Yeah, the ones with all the bells and whistles are pricey for sure.  Not like alot of other vendors don't see vintage car folks as a cash cow though, LOL.

Electrical is an area I'm fair to middlin' at. Did have my ASE though.  For me, it'd be worth the time saved to get one of the mid priced models.  I want a vintage look too though.  I can tell from your posts you've got more experience with electrical than me, and enjoy the "thrill of the hunt" (job) a bit more than I do, so the cost savings definitely makes sense.

Satellite...  I had a free year in my PT Cruiser when I bought it back in 2004.  We got a free couple of months in the g/f's new Subaru Forester also.  Have to agree that it's not really a big deal.  Even more so nowadays when a phone can hold a few hundred MP3 long playlist easily. 

Satellite is good if you're a talk junkie, but most of the music stations have play lists 1/8 the size of an FM station.

And yeah, 8 tracks are cool, esp if they still work