Anybody for one more round of what might this be worth?

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The estate sale I got that Chevy stuff from called me knowing that I liked Mopar Chrysler stuff and said he had this little Jewel for me.
I'm pretty sure this is a homemade box around it.
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4spdragtop said:
I would say $250 at least if working. Cool jewel!
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Thank you! I'd like to hook it to power but kind of unsure which wires. There's a red wire which I'm thinking is power and two orange wires that seem to connect to one which I'm thinking is the ground but I think there is a yellow and a black wire as well that could be ground. The others go to what looks like a gaggle of speaker wires and a plug. Where it gets kind of interesting is the antenna. It looks like two wires come out of the radio and into that resistor and then that goes into some kind of splitter as well.
I do know about CB's is I'm pretty sure you don't want to key up the microphone without an antenna. And then also generally the antenna has to be kind of tuned to the CB?
 
I had a friend in Gray, Andy Causey (RIP) who was the local "anything 70s Mopar cool guy". He had several Lil Reds, Warlocks, Mightnight Expresses, even a couple of Petty kit cars. Just real rare stuff. One of his Lil Reds had that same basic radio in it with the built in CB. That kinda thing was all the rage at one time. If you can find the right people, like maybe a Dodge truck club or some such and find the right buyer, you could get top dollar for that. I would guess that eBay link Steve posted is right in line.
 
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Big dummy said:
Thank you! I'd like to hook it to power but kind of unsure which wires. There's a red wire which I'm thinking is power and two orange wires that seem to connect to one which I'm thinking is the ground but I think there is a yellow and a black wire as well that could be ground. The others go to what looks like a gaggle of speaker wires and a plug. Where it gets kind of interesting is the antenna. It looks like two wires come out of the radio and into that resistor and then that goes into some kind of splitter as well.
I do know about CB's is I'm pretty sure you don't want to key up the microphone without an antenna. And then also generally the antenna has to be kind of tuned to the CB?
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Here ya go... Amazon.com : swr meter
 
JUST DON'T KEY UP THE MIC WITH NO ANTENNA INSTALLED..
 
Red is 12v power, orange is always lights, body is ground, but there is also sometimes a ground wire.
 
Jim Lusk said:
Red is 12v power, orange is always lights, body is ground, but there is also sometimes a ground wire.
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I did hook up the red to 12 volt and grounded the body. The CB would turn on but I didn't get the radio lights so that must be the orange wire. I guess I just didn't get the lights to backlight the radio.
Of course I didn't even have the microphone connected or any speakers.
 
Big dummy said:
I did hook up the red to 12 volt and grounded the body. The CB would turn on but I didn't get the radio lights so that must be the orange wire. I guess I just didn't get the lights to backlight the radio.
Of course I didn't even have the microphone connected or any speakers.
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I just texted my best friend from high school and asked him about a guy who used to work on our base station radios back in the 90s and he said that guy has passed. If I can figure out the speaker wires and everything else maybe it just needs to be hooked up and not so much worked on. I'm not sure what kind of antenna to hook it to has it seems more like a radio antenna but it does have some kind of capacitor in between. I'm more see myself if I can mount this putting it in my old Dodge pickup and hooking it up to the speaker in the dash. And just hooking my regular stereo up to my regular speakers.
 
There will be two antenna connections, but perhaps only one antenna.

I worked on one of those a while back. I've got manuals with the wiring diagrams, but they're a little hard to get to at the moment.
 
Jim Lusk said:
There will be two antenna connections, but perhaps only one antenna.

I worked on one of those a while back. I've got manuals with the wiring diagrams, but they're a little hard to get to at the moment.
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Manufacturing tolerance. 2 separate antennas has to be a better system.
 
Jim Lusk said:
There will be two antenna connections, but perhaps only one antenna.

I worked on one of those a while back. I've got manuals with the wiring diagrams, but they're a little hard to get to at the moment.
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Needless to say I am very interested in anything you can come up with. Thank you.
 
Can you post a picture of the back of it?
 
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