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by **smoker** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:45 am

OnYrMrk wrote:Ummm...I remember "All of the above"
My first car, 1980 Mercury Capri (fox body). 200ci straight six with a 1-barrel carb, 4sp overdrive with 8 track. I loved that car, came with louvers on the back and a popup sunroof. I took out the 8track, and put in a Pioneer cassette deck with autoreverse. It had a brand new tuner called "Supertuner" and my FM was great! I could keep the cassette in and forward through OR reverse through the tape. And if I wanted to hear the other side, I could push the button that looked like this "<<" and the button that looked like this ">>" together and whammo...it was on the other side.
Amazing stuff that technology was. I had a Pyramid 7 band 250w graphic eq/booster powering the bigdaddy of all 6x9s out...the infamous Jensen Quadrax! I had 4 sets of them in the hatch, no box, I just cut out the holes and screwed them in. My first install! Would play Kim Mitchell's "Go for a Soda" like nothing else out! Then the Alpines came out with the green buttons. Well like the good little brat that I was, when I got my next car, I demanded an alpine headunit! So I got that when I got my 2nd car, a 1984 Buick T-Type. Had the turbo and 4x10's. I put in Alpine 4x10's cause they matched the head unit...not because they sounded good. NO 4x10 sounded good. Ahhhhhh memories! Replaced the 4x10's for some M&M Polypropeline 6x9's in the 4x10 adapters. Then added some Pyle Driver free-air 10's with my first amplifier...an ads powerplate 100. Hell this was 1985.

i always like your stories.....its like we used to shop at the same flea market :happy055:

by **GlassWolf** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:26 am

first tinkering was putting the digital tuner from an '86 dodge van into a '77 Volare station wagon, and two externally mounted speakers wired to the radio mounted by the coat hangers behind the front seats by the ceiling. it was better than the analog tuner and single dash 3" speaker.

then put a tape deck into the Van.

monkied with the radio in the 84 daytona

had a first get Pioneer DEH-55 CD player/tuner in an 89 Shadow, wired to 3 coustic amps, two MTX boxes I swapped out for two 8" tubes, kenwood front components, stock rears, hand made crossovers.

had an Alpine 7905, and a few 7903 CD players with the green buttons (the 7905 I changed to orange buttons using clarion's bulb sleeves) in the 88 Festiva, before changing to the $900 Pioneer premier CD player.

Oh, also had a kenwood KAC-555 pullout (tape) and a fixed two-know kenwood with a cool blue display.. the older tapedeck was in my 280Z with sony full ranges and two encased 6x9s in the hatch, and the pullout was in the Shadow before the DEH55 went in.

by **stetsonguy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:50 pm

well I phrased the crossover thing wrong. I should've said there were no crossovers being used by anybody.....not around here anyway. Then again back then we cared more about who could sound the loudest rather than who could sound the best.

by **Jonathan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:03 pm

Ugh, my Mustang had 4x10 whizzer cones in the front. My ears would shrivel up in agony if I still had to listen to those things.

by **Darthness** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:54 pm

chances are i wasn't alive or was hardly talking.

by **William from NOLA** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:53 pm

OnYrMrk wrote: NO 4x10 sounded good. Ahhhhhh memories! Replaced the 4x10's for some M&M Polypropeline 6x9's in the 4x10 adapters. Then added some Pyle Driver free-air 10's with my first amplifier...an ads powerplate 100. Hell this was 1985.

Man, my dad's truck I mentioned, that had a single 4x10 in the dash. That sounded SOOOOO nasty. He used to have a CB (I think a scanner at one point too) in his truck. He hooked that 4x10 to it.

by **OnYrMrk** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:46 pm

Ummm...I remember "All of the above"

My first car, 1980 Mercury Capri (fox body). 200ci straight six with a 1-barrel carb, 4sp overdrive with 8 track. I loved that car, came with louvers on the back and a popup sunroof. I took out the 8track, and put in a Pioneer cassette deck with autoreverse. It had a brand new tuner called "Supertuner" and my FM was great! I could keep the cassette in and forward through OR reverse through the tape. And if I wanted to hear the other side, I could push the button that looked like this "<<" and the button that looked like this ">>" together and whammo...it was on the other side.

Amazing stuff that technology was. I had a Pyramid 7 band 250w graphic eq/booster powering the bigdaddy of all 6x9s out...the infamous Jensen Quadrax! I had 4 sets of them in the hatch, no box, I just cut out the holes and screwed them in. My first install! Would play Kim Mitchell's "Go for a Soda" like nothing else out! Then the Alpines came out with the green buttons. Well like the good little brat that I was, when I got my next car, I demanded an alpine headunit! So I got that when I got my 2nd car, a 1984 Buick T-Type. Had the turbo and 4x10's. I put in Alpine 4x10's cause they matched the head unit...not because they sounded good. NO 4x10 sounded good. Ahhhhhh memories! Replaced the 4x10's for some M&M Polypropeline 6x9's in the 4x10 adapters. Then added some Pyle Driver free-air 10's with my first amplifier...an ads powerplate 100. Hell this was 1985.

by **William from NOLA** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:42 pm

As far back as I can remember, my dad put a JVC tape deck (dual knob style) with a pair of JVC 2 ways (5&1/4") in the doors of his 1984 Dodge Ram 100. I believe he did it in 1986 or 87. After a few years, the speakers deteriorated and he had some crappy Radioshack "3-ways" yuck.

I'm glad when it flooded it took those speakers with it. (truck didn't submerge, water just went up to teh speakers -truck on angle so the engine was fine) So after that flood, he got some Cambridge Soundworks 5&1/4"ers. I think a year or two later, I bought some Sony head unit for the truck. (I was 12 -grass cutting for my grandma paid it off lol)

Ahh memories...

by **Jonathan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:34 pm

stetsonguy wrote:head units had analog tuners
a tuner was ALL there was...no cassettes..no cd's

I just took one out of my Ranger

8454 in it's place.

stetsonguy wrote:everybody into car audio had eq boosters in their cars

I had one pushing some Jensen Triax 6x9s in my Mustang :)

stetsonguy wrote:most people got their audio stuff from sears because they couldn't afford alpine, pioneer, JVC etc..etc..

Yup.

stetsonguy wrote:everybody wanted alpine because of the 6 big green buttons

I remember drooling a time or two

stetsonguy wrote:subwoofers played full range because there were no crossovers
people made their sub boxes out of plywood and put their tweeters in there with em

Don't remember the nonexistance of crossovers, but I've heard quite a few sub/tweeter boxes in my time

by **geolemon** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:27 pm

I remember analog tuners, but they were a "flea market" type of good - digital tuners were becoming standard.

My first deck if I remember, was a few years later - a "pull out" deck, with a cassette player.

My second deck, many years later, was a JVC deck - that one I remember, because it was a cassette player (volume knob too), and it had a detachable face - JVC made that deck, one of the first with a detachable face at a reasonable price point.

My next deck was a big step up, many years later... early 90's.
Still a cassette deck, but a Sony Mobile ES, and I bought the 6 disk changer with it - and new to them, you could program names for your CD's, and the changer would recognize up to 100 discs, and would display the name on your head unit. I thought that was incredibly trick, for the day.

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