Hey Steve was a doer, he love to tinker and work on things for sure. can't imagine him being anything else. Fantastic actor too. B-T-W Great promo shot of him and the Mustang. It looks like the tire choice was Mickey Thompson's. And they weren't radials. Even with power steering those tires were a bear to work with. I know. I remember driving on them.
Nice picture but that's not a car radio. Aside from the overall appearance, note the loop antenna on the back of this table radio.
It is true that GM made some big car radios back in the 50's that were self-contained, with speaker attached, but those had the speaker above, and none had inside antennas.
Side note - back in the old days of tube radios, the problem of getting high voltage from a DC supply was handled with a vibrator, a mechanical device that turned DC into dirty AC, which could then run through transformers. A trick was that a vibrator would also run on AC, which meant that you could power those old radios with a plain 6 volt transformer. Back in high school days I had a radio out of a 50's Pontiac as a table radio. Like most such machines, it had tremendous reception if you trimmed the antena correcty, and from my place in Connecticut I could get a clean signal from Baltimore and get "The Harley Show," a night program of some of the best jazz ever, emceed and sponsored by a local vendor of hamburgers.
astute observation! Right, table radio.. huh. The buttons, dial, and knob stalks had me looking at it as a big old bolt in radio for the 1930s/40s cars... and damned if I know if the old car radios had internal or external antennas, or what. I've seen a lot of the externals of them, but never the insides
Hey Steve was a doer, he love to tinker and work on things for sure. can't imagine him being anything else. Fantastic actor too. B-T-W Great promo shot of him and the Mustang. It looks like the tire choice was Mickey Thompson's. And they weren't radials. Even with power steering those tires were a bear to work with. I know. I remember driving on them.
ReplyDeleteNice picture but that's not a car radio. Aside from the overall appearance, note the loop antenna on the back of this table radio.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that GM made some big car radios back in the 50's that were self-contained, with speaker attached, but those had the speaker above, and none had inside antennas.
Side note - back in the old days of tube radios, the problem of getting high voltage from a DC supply was handled with a vibrator, a mechanical device that turned DC into dirty AC, which could then run through transformers. A trick was that a vibrator would also run on AC, which meant that you could power those old radios with a plain 6 volt transformer. Back in high school days I had a radio out of a 50's Pontiac as a table radio. Like most such machines, it had tremendous reception if you trimmed the antena correcty, and from my place in Connecticut I could get a clean signal from Baltimore and get "The Harley Show," a night program of some of the best jazz ever, emceed and sponsored by a local vendor of hamburgers.
astute observation!
DeleteRight, table radio.. huh.
The buttons, dial, and knob stalks had me looking at it as a big old bolt in radio for the 1930s/40s cars... and damned if I know if the old car radios had internal or external antennas, or what. I've seen a lot of the externals of them, but never the insides