Got me an AM/FM Radio ....

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  1. dmhines

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    So you have the correct AM/FM radio for it? Have any pictures?
     
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    It was in the car from the factory, I'll take a few pic's tomorrow, I'm beat and don't want to go back out to the garage tonight.
    It's the first Maverick I've ever had with 4 speakers, I didn't really notice it when I bought the car, but once I got it home I was pretty excited. The Marti Report states that 1991 Mavericks came with the AM/FM Stereo Radio in 1973
     
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    Cool ... I'll keep any eye out for the pics tomorrow ... :)
     
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    My 73 2-door also was built 9/72.
     
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    Dave,

    Your car came with four speakers from the factory ... where are the front pair located? ... kick panels?
     
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    The front 2 are in the kick panels, and the rears in the package tray. I'll take some pic's of it all today.
     
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    After I posted this last night ... I had a brainstorm for the AM/FM selector ... just GRIND the word STEREO off and polish it out ... so I did ... Here is the final product ...

    [​IMG]

    and here is what it is supposed to look like. Since this Radio is a Bendix and not a Philco it came out perfect ...


    [​IMG]
     
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    Nice job Dan. Good solution for the selector as well.
     
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    Dave, that is very interesting. Don't think I have ever run across a Mav with factory speakers in the kick panels.
     
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    73 was the first year to have the cutout area to have speakers behind the kick panel ... they look like this ...

    [​IMG]
     
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    Heres a quick pic of the radio, without the knobs (I was cleaning them)
    [​IMG]
    And here's a pic of the speaker in the kick panel (factory speaker)
    [​IMG]
     
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    Dave,

    I had to trim into a rectangular hole on both of my Comets (71 and 72) just to surface mount some 4 inch speakers that had healthy (not huge) magnets on them.

    It is cool to know that they changed this for 73- on ... much less of a hassle to install.
     
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    Got to go to my first car show listening to music in the Grabber since I bought it ... it's always had an AM radio in it ... and in Georgia either you listen to Boortz and Hannity or Hispanic Gospel on AM ....

    Now I need to fix the very loud 50MPH+ exhaust drone so I can actually here it ... never had the drone issue until I went from Headers to factory Manifolds .... I guess I need a resonator or something installed?
     
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