Radio

This may not work for you or others, but I thought it was a good idea at the time. I used an old style heater cabinet for a speaker box in our R120. I had replaced the OEM heater with a compact unit from a truck supply. The replacement heater was small and tucked up under the dashboard, and worked. There is room for a good size speaker in the cabinet and don't forget to line the inside of the cabinet some sound deadening material like Dyna Mat, Hush Mat, GT Mat or B-Quiet. Another speaker option is to put it under the seat. There is room. In the final years of our R120, the Alpine remote CD player resided under the seat.

Here is an "International" radio in my 52 L-110, says Motorola somewhere on it. It worked 20 years ago when truck got parked in old combine shed. Finally got truck into shop to give it some tlc, only problem. Is there any AM radio stations anymore?, ha. No matter, this truck wont get driven that much to matter.

Do they make FM radios that look old like these old AM radios? Been a long time since I listened to an AM station.
The signal was never as good. My L112 did not have a radio as you can see in the pic.

Got a modern radio to fit from Custom Autosound. Picture in my gallery.

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Thats a nice looking radio do they do Satellite radios? love that L-120 4x4 in your gallery

For my S120,I bought a used International radio from Lloyd and brought it to a local radio shop in Blaine, MN. They totally disassembled the radio, removed the AM guts and replaced them with modern AM/FM components. They cleaned and polished the face and display and it looks great. It still only has the AM numbers on the glass dial, but when you turn it on and press in on the volume knob and little green light illuminates in the upper right corner of the glass to tell you are in FM mode. I programmed the pushbuttons to my favorite FM stations. The radio even has an input for my ipod. It was kinda spendy, around $400, but I gotta have a radio for those long trips to the car shows. I used Autosound Undercover II speakers under the seat. Here is a link to the radio conversion: http://www.turnswitch.com/radio1.htm

That's an interesting link, Don

Their site says that they will provide modern tuner conversions with 6 volt positive or negative ground as options. For those that go to the effort of converting to a 12 volt system just so they can have a modern sound system, here is another option.

Dean

Don't 6V radio's create more heat than the 12v ones? Maybe with new technology and circuitry that may not be an issue with conversion radio's. Those old AM radio's sure are big and heavy. I like the option of having a radio that runs off of 6 volts or 12 for use that have not switched to 12v yet.

The old Tube radios, no matter the kind, auto or home, produced lots of heat. That is why they had so many holes in the case. Interesting side note: about 30 years ago, when the tube radios were all over the place, I took a small metal dish and built a wire rack to hold it. I then slow cooked an egg on that metal dish, over the top of one of the tubes out of a car radio.
Also not smart to try to pull one out of socket when it has Just turned off.

Thanks Ethan, check out the website, they have tons of stuff. I used a 6 to 12 volt converter to run the modern radio, kept everything else 6volt.