New to the site and I am probably looking for a needle in a haystack. I picked up a couple of late 60's earky 70's oldsmobile am/fm radios over the weekend. Not exactly sure what year and make they came out of, but one has the fins on the side and the other one has the fins on the back. Both of them are missing the little small red fm indicators beside the slide bar. Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase one or two of these. Thanks and looks like a great site.

 

welcome. i don't think i can answer your question but someone will be along soon that can help. do you have any Oldsmobiles? if so post a picture or two of them. you may want to post a picture of the radios so people can pin point what you have.

 

This may be of some help,


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Gene

 

I believe you can get an answer from W70442 (Randy). He does radios and tape decks. I have an email somewhere with the name of the guy who has those things, but Randy knows for sure. Good luck.

 

Thanks any help would be appreciated. Here is a pic of each radio.

 

Welcome to CO. If you have intentions of selling them you can use our "parts for sale" forum, someone just might be interested in one of them.

 

Welcome aboard

I'm sure someone would love to have those.

 

I know the pics aren't the greatest, but can anyone identify what they might have come out of. There no tags on the radios. The one has the fins on the side and the other has the fins on the back.
Thanks

 

looks like 70 to me, but may have been different years as well, but my grandmother had a 70 88 with those buttons

 

The pic of the first one looks like out of a full size OLDS. It has the plug for the separate "FM stereo"unit.
The second pic, I say is of the '68/69 Cutlass "AM/FM unit. no stereo.

Gene

 

sometimes there are numbers where the ***** are not sure if those are dependent on year. Both look like 70 to me, the first one an AM/FM stereo and the second one an AM/FM mono

 

I appreaciate the vote of confidence but I'm not an expert by any means on the stereos though I have bought and sold several in the past 10 years or so. I mainly play with the 68-78 BOP 8 tracks.
From the shape of the slider bar and the fact that you said the fins on this one are on the rear of the unit, I'd say the stereo one is a 68 or 69 Cutlass stereo. I hope you have the multiplex unit for it. Otherwise, it's useless. If you don't have it, all is not lost. However, the multiplex units are matched to the stereo's at the factory so, while you may be able to find a multiplex unit, it is just a matter of luck getting one matched to that particular stereo. If they aren't matched well, the output could be very weak or very loud. In the latter case, that could damage the stereo by over driving it. The trick is finding a multiplex unit in which the gain is well matched to the stereo. You'll know when they are well matched, you'll have normal volume.
The fins on the side of the mono radio in the second pic make me think it's a big car (delta 88/98) radio. Can't really tell what year as those big car radios all had the square shaped slider bar.
When I say square shaped slider bar, I'm referring to or contrasting it with the 70-72 Cutlass radios/stereos in which the slider bars were tapered at the left and right ends.
I have all the service manuals from 67 thru 72. I'll check the pics of the radios and see if I can narrow it down.

 

If there is a paper sticker on the side of the radio with the model number on it you'll be in business...

 

Unfortunately there is not

 

So the first one looks like '68 or '69 stereo and the second one looks like '68 or '69 Cutlass...the heat sinks on the left side because the brace for the dash between the radio and the glove box interferes with [the heatsink if you tried to put a full size radio] into the Cutlass...the FM indicators might be inside the faceplate and could be rescued...

 

Took off the faceplate with no luck. Does anyone know if these can be bought?
Thanks