Radio restoration in the '60 American Super wagon

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   Took me all winter picking at it, but I got the radio in the '60 American Super wagon working. The electronics were degraded, no surprise for a 64 year old radio, but the main problems were the knobs and surprisingly, the nuts that affix the radio to the instrument panel. They're peculiar to this radio.

The antenna was more trouble than I thought to locate. 

It sounds great, for such a terrible radio -- it has no AGC (automatic gain control) so that strong local stations "block" and are screaming loud, you have to tune to one side of them to hear them. Worse, weak stations require high volume to hear. Not a good combination of features.

The knobs are very difficult to find.

Description and video and audio here... can't post video on the forum I guess.

https://www.ramblerlore.com/AMC/93MR-radio/index.html

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tomj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/27/2010 Location: earth Status: Offline Points: 7553	Post Options Post Reply Quote tomj Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Radio restoration in the '60 American Super wagon Posted: Mar/16/2023 at 1:23pm
	Took me all winter picking at it, but I got the radio in the '60 American Super wagon working. The electronics were degraded, no surprise for a 64 year old radio, but the main problems were the knobs and surprisingly, the nuts that affix the radio to the instrument panel. They're peculiar to this radio. The antenna was more trouble than I thought to locate. It sounds great, for such a terrible radio -- it has no AGC (automatic gain control) so that strong local stations "block" and are screaming loud, you have to tune to one side of them to hear them. Worse, weak stations require high volume to hear. Not a good combination of features. The knobs are very difficult to find. Description and video and audio here... can't post video on the forum I guess. https://www.ramblerlore.com/AMC/93MR-radio/index.html
	1960 Rambler Super two-door wagon, OHV auto 1961 Roadster American, 195.6 OHV, T5 http://www.ramblerLore.com

troutwilly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Sep/14/2007 Location: Carriere, MS Status: Offline Points: 994	Post Options Post Reply Quote troutwilly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Mar/18/2023 at 6:11am
	That's cool. Reminds me of 2 things: Cheech and Chong's "even gets AM" and the Metropolitan I had....guy said radio didn't work....he just didn't let the tubes warm up....worked OK. Making old stuff work is what it's about.
	Bill O. 70 AMX

LakesideRamblin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Dec/21/2015 Location: So. California Status: Offline Points: 2694	Post Options Post Reply Quote LakesideRamblin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Mar/18/2023 at 4:29pm
	Very cool, even though primative to modern standards. Love the persistent wizardry and the look.
	LakesideRamblin 69 Rambler 360 73 Javelin 360 "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." T. Roosevelt