Stack it up! - Car audio collections set up..

Decided to consolidate my collections into a tower like home HiFi system.
From bottom up:-

1. Alpine TDM -7561E
2. Alpine CDA - 9857Ji
3. Audiovox Hi-Comp 7 band equalizer
4. Beltek SE400EP 7 Band Spectrum Analyzer
5. JVC woodcone speakers





Another set of old school Pioneer will be shared later..

 

Another set of Alpine CDA series + equalizer sound field processor were customized install in my car due to most post millennium cars do not support after market audio system.

 

This is My Old Car Stuff. i bought it all because it Just reminds me of when i was a Kid.. the speakers, i only show one in the pictures, but both are pairs.

 

Memories of the days when you were lucky to get an AM radio factory fitted in your new car, and there was a large market in upgrading them.
Back in the 1990s I fitted Car Stereos in three different young ladies cars.

An Austin Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Metro (no it wasn't Diana Spencer's )

An Austin Allegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Allegro

A Triumph Acclaim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Acclaim (which might have been a distant relative of @Ken80s car

Annoyingly the one I fitted to the Allegro got stolen out of it about three months after I fitted it.


@Big_Paul If you didn't know, Longman was actually my CB Handle, given to me on 2nd November 1981, the first day CB became legal in the U.K.
I still have most of my old rigs, including a Cobra 148GTL-DX 120 Channel, AM, FM, SSB, one converted to operate on the 10m Amateur Band where I can legally use it, and memories of getting CB mike cables wrapped around the steering column while trying to use the mike while going around roundabouts.

A good site on CB and other 80s stuff for anyone who is interested
https://80sactual.blogspot.com/2007/08/cb-radio.html

 

@Longman Yes i was on cb in 81, i was only a kid then though. my handle was bent banana {i know, stoopid handle} we went through a lot of cb's then. some i can remember..york jcb863, jaws mk2 am, midland 2001, president grant, couple of lower quality ones like murply home base, amstrad 901 WITH roger bleep lol. harvard 410t hand held, couple of echo chambers, even had an es880 echo and altai echo power mic. we were always changing twigs/whips we had, diapole, then silver rod, then electronica special. i remember around 1982, i was 12, me and a mate of mine had mk1 raleigh choppers, we selotaped cb's to the handle bars, i had a motorbike battery under the seat and my mate {i have no idea how} had a car battery under his seat, we stuck mag mounts to the back mudgards and put it through the back of the seat, it looked crazy but it was friggin awesome back then.. as for now.... i don't even wanna talk about it, just old, depressed, sick all the time and wishing i could go back in time. instead of going to spain for an holiday, why can't we go back in time for a holiday. i don't know a single peron in my friend circle thats happy anymore. getting old is a b*tch.

 

The Chopper sounds cool. Do you have a photo ?
Here is one of my wheels back in 1982. My first car bought back in 1981.

With 1100cc pushing out 43HP I don't think it would have worried the Duke Boys
I bought my Cybernet Beta 1000 CB just after Christmas when it was reduced slightly.The antenna was a HyGain one that could also run the car radio.

The audio system was a cheap MW/LW push button radio bought in Halfords and a separate Motorola Cassette Player (another cheap thing that didn't have Rewind) wired to the speakers through a relay so they switched automatically when I inserted a tape which was how you made it play. I think that thing had two controls; Volume, and a button which you pressed halfway in for fast-forward and all the way for eject.

In about 1984 I bought a Midland 2001 brand new for just £14.99 in Dixons when they had decided the CB craze was over. Trying it out when I got home I was puzzled why I kept hearing numbers when I turned the channel selector. It turned out they had given me a 2001T with built in Speak and Spell type speech synthesis. That eventually ended up with someone who would appreciate it.

My next car also in 1984 was a Ford Capri with a long Orange Firestick on the rear tailgate, and a decent Pioneer radio cassette connected to 8" speakers in the doors. The previous owner had cut a hole in the passenger door then found the speakers he had bought fowled the window mechanism. The perils of DIY car audio installation. I had to go through loads of car audio catalogues looking for low profile 8" speakers, eventually finding that Panasonic made some so that was what I bought.

 

Sorry longman for the late reply, i don't come here every day.. no unfortunately i don't have any pictures, i never messed with camera's back then, the first ever camera i ever owned was a Sony cybershot in the 2000s. i have a couple of old pictures of my Yamaha Fs1e from 1986, an my brother had a Yamaha Rxs100 in the same photo. i had some nice bikes back then, i had my Fs1e Reg EBA...T, then a Suzuki Ts50 Er Reg NNF521W, then a Suzuki Ts50x Reg C352AJA, then Suzuki Gp100 with Micron, then Suzuki X7-250, then Yamaha Rd350Lc, my brother had Suzuki Gp100, Honda SS50, Kawasaki Kh100, Suzuki Gt360, Garelli 50 Tigercorss. my brothers had some nice cars as well, Mk1 capri Gt, Escort Xr3i, Fiesta Xr2i, they other brother had a Manta Gte, Peugeot 309gti, I had a Astra Gte Mk1, We had so much nice stuff back then, if i only knew what it would have all been worth today.

 

It is listing like this that makes you think that.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MK1-ESCORT-2-DOOR-UK-SHELL-/275764019248
Of course two reasons a rusty old shell like that is so valuable is

• The MK1 Escort had significant rallying success
• 99.9% of them probably got melted down when they were rusting away at less then 20 years old.
  At just 11 years old I was fighting a losing battle with rust on mine.

Near work there is a small scrap metal business. A few months ago I was surprised to see what looked to be an undamaged MGF bodyshell in the back of their truck along with other scrap. I wonder if someone will regret that in a few years time.

Regarding cameras I got my first one, a Prinz 126, ready for a school trip to Paris when I was just 12. Of course the thing that was very different back then was that you tried to make a 20 exposure film last about 6 months. I don't think I have any pictures of my pushbikes and only about three of the only Motorbike I have owned, a Honda CB100N.

The reason I originally joined Stereo2Go was to point out that back in 1979 my bottom of the range Sony Boombox was 1/6th the price of that brand new motorbike (which I still remember was £505 on the road).

To try and keep vaguely on topic here is a picture of my Ford Escort interior. I'd forgotten about the fake wood trim which was completely normal in 1970s products. I was trying to work out why I didn't fit the Radio between the switches but I think that was a smaller space with an ashtray. One of the few things that wasn't an optional extra in a car back then.

 

Yes Old Bikes Prices are going crazy, Yam Fs1e, Honda SS50, Puch Grand Prix 50, Garelli Tiger Cross, Suzuki Ap50, Honda Mt50, Yam Rd50 ect.. Prices from £5k up to £10k now, especially for the fizzy. Crazy, and Cars are the Same, through the Roof, but i'm glad they are, because at least we know they will be taken care of properly. no one is going to pay big money for a bike or car an treat it like crap. And it's funny you mentioned the Honda Cb100N, great little bike, my neighbour had one, his sister was married to my brother, he let me ride his 100N, I loved it, not the fastest but it was great, good old honda engine..

 

Just like Boomboxes, people our age want the things they couldn't afford as teenagers. Of course the FS1E was the only moped with a top speed of 60 MPH (according to the owners who were probably going down a steep hill while laid on the tank) .

By coincidence I saw a MK1 Escort today. An immaculate Rally very (replica ?) covered in stickers and complete with Roll Cage etc. Even my wife noticed it and asked what it was. Whether it will ever be rallied I will never know. It looked too clean and immaculate for doing that.