Panasonic Component Systems (car stereo)

A great set!

 

Nice indeed but you will need a big dashboard i feel ?

 

Both my 1970s Fords would have had plenty of room, with room the full width of the car under the dashboard.
In my MK1 Ford Escort there was plenty of room on it for a Radio, a separate Tape Player, and a CB.

p.s. I guess the Panasonic probably cost about as much as that car.

 

Another thing that has lapsed into history is the ritual of fitting a Radio Cassette in the new girlfriends car.
I did that three times. If I say the cars were an Austin Metro, an Austin Allegro, and a Triumph Acclaim, UK readers will be able to guess the era.
The only new stereo was fitted in the Allegro and was paid for by the Young Lady herself. Unfortunately, despite having a removable faceplate it got stolen just a couple of months later when she left the car for 30 minutes outside her work with the front panel still attached.

 

Really? In which years - late 70s?

 

Early 80s -82-83? Essentially a Honda Ballade (a saloon version of Honda Civic).

 

The car was 1984 but fitting the stereo was in 1996. Another activity was filling in all the rust holes in the front valance with plastic padding. In about 1999 the car was scrapped with perfectly working running gear and about 70000 miles on the clock as there was too much rust to economically repair it to get through the MOT annual inspection. That was what used to finish off most cars in the UK.

 

I've never seen that one either. Mine was a Pioneer Supertuner with under dash 8-track/tuner and a separate in dash cassette of another brand. Found room inside the dash somewhere for the amp. A hand-me-down from my younger brother. I had it in a 71 Datsun truck with home made speaker boxes on the floor, a minor inconvenience to have music. I later put it in a little cabinet in my shop. It's still around somewhere, probably in storage. I think I would have liked that Panasonic much better but I suspect it would have been beyond my budget at that time.

 

That's how I ran mine. As for the cars, I don't want a new one either. The fact that somebody can hack your car without actually putting his hands on it is not acceptable. They can toss that in the same trash can as space saver (fake) spare tires. No talking cars. No internet connected cars. Oh, and no self driving cars either. Well, maybe I'll bend on that one when I get too old to do it myself. But not before.

 

Cripes! That separate radio tuner reminded me of the add-on under-dash FM-radio tuners Radio Shack sold in the day. Only once did I ever see one installed... and surprisingly, it wasn't the n anything my dad drove.

 

These came out in 77? They look more like 70-72 gear.

 

while I wouldn't want one, and have bought full size spares for both our cars a space saver is far preferable to a compressor and can of junk (which it turns out has a shelf life), especially when a 6" bolt goes through the tyre sidewall as happened to my Father in Laws car just as he came to pick us up from the airport. That ended up with the car going to the tyre centre on the back of a recovery lorry.