Put Bluetooth in your Classic Car!
I'm installing these in my Barracuda. I'm actually really impressed with the sound quality for just having one speaker in the dash hooked to a cheap chinese bluetooth receiver.
I believe I got the idea from another member here who installed his receiver inside of his radio so he could use the knobs to control it. Wish I could remember who it was so I could credit him.
I attempted to install it into a non working thumbwheel radio so I could run it incognito but it just didn't work because of the nature of the thumbwheel knobs. The gears that are part of the thumbwheel that are required to turn the stud inside the radio just aren't strong enough to turn the knob on the receiver consistently. I think it would stop working or strip the gears out after moderate use. I believe it would work easily with a regular type AM radio since there won't be a need to make a 90* turn using gears inside the radio.
Going to install it under the seat instead. Couple of things if you're going this route. The power wire that comes with the receiver is garbage. It looks like it's 16 gauge but it's really the insulation that is 16 gauge with like two tiny strands of copper inside that are about as thick as a human hair. I ditched that and just ran 14 gauge to a power connector I bought off Amazon for a couple bucks. I also ditched the speaker wire that came with the speaker. Seems like the speaker itself is high quality but I don't even know if I could consider the speaker wires it came with as wires. It was more like some type of material pretending to be copper that would crumble into small pieces if it bent one way or another.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XBF9GXW/?tag=fabo03-20
Standard Series Dash Replacement Speaker for 1968-72 Plymouth Barracuda
I'm installing these in my Barracuda. I'm actually really impressed with the sound quality for just having one speaker in the dash hooked to a cheap chinese bluetooth receiver.
I believe I got the idea from another member here who installed his receiver inside of his radio so he could use the knobs to control it. Wish I could remember who it was so I could credit him.
I attempted to install it into a non working thumbwheel radio so I could run it incognito but it just didn't work because of the nature of the thumbwheel knobs. The gears that are part of the thumbwheel that are required to turn the stud inside the radio just aren't strong enough to turn the knob on the receiver consistently. I think it would stop working or strip the gears out after moderate use. I believe it would work easily with a regular type AM radio since there won't be a need to make a 90* turn using gears inside the radio.
Going to install it under the seat instead. Couple of things if you're going this route. The power wire that comes with the receiver is garbage. It looks like it's 16 gauge but it's really the insulation that is 16 gauge with like two tiny strands of copper inside that are about as thick as a human hair. I ditched that and just ran 14 gauge to a power connector I bought off Amazon for a couple bucks. I also ditched the speaker wire that came with the speaker. Seems like the speaker itself is high quality but I don't even know if I could consider the speaker wires it came with as wires. It was more like some type of material pretending to be copper that would crumble into small pieces if it bent one way or another.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XBF9GXW/?tag=fabo03-20
Standard Series Dash Replacement Speaker for 1968-72 Plymouth Barracuda
