1. I'm still not convinced that radio came from that car, i.e. 1990, but I don't have a leg to stand on refuting it.

2. As for the upgrade a new radio presents to some people (referring to Steve's son's reflection on how dumb we is outside of Concours de'Elegance) I experienced one such animal last weekend when I cleaned the fuse panel in my daughter's 93. Because the thing she had installed lost its brains while the power was out, it went through a rainbow of colored lights as we exited the driveway for the test drive of the brake job. She likes the features, but not the gaudiness or styling.

3. I have belts for all the tape transports as well as a once-in-a-while nostalgic delight to sit at the bench going through a radio (pot cleaning and solder reflow mostly) so we are able to keep the originals going in most of our fleet. I add aux jacks at the same time. My daughter laments, "Isn't it vexing we can't pin down the data storage medium of the future?" I'm sure all of us over 50 sorts have boxes of cassettes we can't bear to throw out with the Alpine radios.

So I feel for your dilemma. Or is it a conundrum. There are businesses thriving on restoring vintage car radios.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

"If only Sweden awarded a Nobel Prize for recycling its cars." - General Colin L. Powell