RE: [Chrysler300] Re: AM/FM radio in '64

["JOHN MC ADAMS" <clafong@xxxx>]

Years ago, back in the mid sixties, I bought an FM converter unit for my first car manufactured by Gonset.  Gonset used to manufacture Amateur Radio equipment. 

You plugged your antenna lead into the FM converter and run its antenna to your AM dash unit.  You set your Am dash unit at an AM frequency in the middle of the dial and then used the FM converter to tune in the FM band.  This used the principle of "Beat Frequency Oscillation".  The length of the fender antenna was also sort of critical, seems to me it needed to be extended to about 26 - 30 inches long.

Anyway, Long story short, I recently ran across my original unit in my garage and it still works great.  It is quite large, almost the size of a small loaf of bread.  I don't know if I am going to mount it in the glove box or not.  That is where it used to live, years ago.  But it is a pain (and dangerous) reaching clear across the car to tune your FM station.

NO!! I don't want to part with it.  Happy hunting.

John Mc Adams

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Ellis [mailto:slim724@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:52 PM
To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Re: AM/FM radio in '64


My 64 300 K has the AM model #348. I have been looking
for the AM/FM model #351 for about a year now with no
luck. On the bright side, I just bought am FM
converter off eBay for $9.99 it's about 15 years old,
manufactured by Realistic. Looks to be just slightly
smaller than the original radio. The person selling it
said he used it in his 64 Salon! Imagine that. Anybody
have any experience installing and using these old
converters?

Sean

--- REckert300@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Our '64 300 K convertible has an AM/FM radio in it. 
> Since the first owner 
> supposedly was a dealer's wife, in the Dayton, OH
> area, it may have been 
> added on at the dealership.  It was an option, if we
> remember correctly.  
> However, Jim loaned his shop manual to a friend and
> our book on the 300's is 
> in another car in the barn at the moment, so we
> can't verify our memories, 
> which is necessary at our age!  The radio doesn't
> work well and we are 
> considering having it worked on this winter.  We
> only miss it if we want to 
> listen to a Cleveland Indians baseball game since we
> don't feel the necessity 
> of having some kind of extraneous sound around us
> all the time when we're 
> driving to a show somewhere (or here at home either,
> for that matter).  We do 
> want it to work better than it does, though, so
> we'll probably pursue finding 
> someone to work on it for us this winter.
> 
> Jimm & Ruth Eckert
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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