Anyone have a Blaupunkt Cassette Recorder?

I have an old coffee table Ferrari book that shows one of those in a 308.

 

I have a '78 with that same radio.

What truly amazes me is that the clock is still ticking after 39 years.

 

The volume issue can probably be fixed by spraying tuner cleaner in the volume control (rheostat). Noisy volume controls are very common. If you want to keep using it.

 

i've a SHARP RG6550 1980. Anyone else ??
Can you tell me how can i take it out ??
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Pull the knobs off. Unscrew the fasteners that surround the stalks the knobs were on and pull off the face plate. You should see what is going on in there holding the unit in.

 

Thanks Cosgrove ..... I"ll try it this w.e.

 

In those days, radios typically didn't have a full DIN rectangular cut-out, but had two holes for the knob shafts and a smaller rectangle between the knobs.
They were held in by hex nuts on the threaded hollow pipes for the knob controls.
The "all-thread" knob pipes would fit through the car panel and possibly the faceplate, and have hex nuts securing the radio.
The faceplate was sometimes held on by additional hex nuts in front of those holding the radio to the panel.
If the unit was deep enough, it would also sometimes have a strap holding up the back.

If the unit is original, it might have been fastened that way.

Since the rectangle tends to be different sizes for different radios, in older cars, repeated cuts for different radios might have cut away too much of the car panel, and it might have a separate plate in front of the car panel to hold the radio.
If they did a quick DIY job, it might only be the faceplate trying to hold the radio in. (But it'd be a bit wobbly, unless they used a pair of rear straps to stabilize it.)

Trying to unfasten the rear straps is where the Dash Samurais get your hands.

Today, radios now use rectangular docks which are fitted via metal tabs to the rectangular DIN panel opening (again, with an optional rear strap).
But in ye olde days, the radio held itself to a car panel with two circles and a rectangle.

Of course, my 328 had already been converted to DIN for an Alpine when I got it, so the replacement also used a DIN dock.

(I've been putting 8-tracks, cassettes, and plain AM/FM radios in my cars since a '63 Mopar. )

Attached are diagrams from older Blaupunkts (one with separate amp pod) -- from a Porsche 356 site --, but it gives you the idea.
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