What's your O.E. Stock Radio/Cassette Player in 79-308GTB?

There was no such thing, all cars were delivered to the dealer with no radio as I understand it.

I have a '79 but I am not sure of the Blaupunkt model. I will take a look tomorrow. Interesting question to see what people have.

 

I have an Alpine cassette in my '79. No tapes to use in it though.

 

My OE is still installed, a blank out plate.

 

A Blaupunkt Denver in my 77.
Luckily enough I throw out nothing and have about thirty cassettes.

 

Crappy pic I know but this is going to be about as period correct as I can imagine as to what a dealer was typically installing in 1979.

This is the radio in Magnum's 79 308 during the first season (filmed mostly in 1980).
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Someone here may be able to tell us which model Blaupunkt it is.

Next stop, eBay!

 

There was a well known article in the Apr 1980 C&D (at least well know around here) about the journey that car took across country to begin filming the pilot episode.

The collection of cassettes brought on the trip was mentioned in the article so the radio was there when the car was picked up in New Jersey, presumably "new" - it was December 1979.

So unless for some odd reason the production company decided to change the radio after it got to Hawaii (why on earth would they?) that particular Blaupunkt in the picture was installed by someone in 1979. I took that picture from an early episode in the first season. I froze the frame from the DVD.

So there you go

 

The only time my radio is on is when the engine is off.

 

My 79 GTB also had an Alpine radio. I removed it and had the radio panel piece recovered in new vinyl creating a blank.

 

-77 GTB delivered through Modern Motor Classics CA
Blaupunkt Bamberg, believe it was top of line from Blaupunkt in 1976.
Cool feature with record button and microphone.
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Ha ha -no worries Chris
And it's real hard to disagree with you!

Harald

 

Did the car have a stereo/radio when leaved the factory? i was told that here in Italy it just had the antenna and speakers and you had to buy by yourself the radio/cassette player, but i never investigated that.

ciao

 

I believe you were told correctly. No radio from the factory. Dealer installed item.

 

Did anyone ever pickup a SW or LW (for that matter) radio signal with one of these in the US?

 

On the contrary, I think it fits the switch gear and instrumentation you see in the rest of the cockpit very nicely indeed. It's a far better aesthetic match than later radio models in the 70s/80s.

 

1979 US GTS, Blaubunkt CR-2001

I love the look but it just did not perform well enough (you cannot hear it over the Tubi and other wonderful noises back there except at lights). I have heard there is someone who rebuilds them with new internal components and it is tempting.
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Are head cleaners and demagnetizes still available?

 

That Blaupunkt was the on that the VW dealer put in my Uncle Don's 1980 Scirocco when he bought it new.

I have one here on the shelf that I bought for my 74 MGB.

You can make these things sound just fine. I have the Cr-3001 in my 308 because it was very popular from the dealer back in 82-83. Tons of 308's had this particular unit. You can make them sound just fine. I have a 600 watt amp with a 6 disc CD changer attached that play through some pretty nice Polk components. You just would never know the head unit was over 30 years old unless you looked.

I have ball speakers in the rear shelf. Some dealers installed them back in the day, I know FAF did. That means I have a 4 channel system with really makes all the difference and the CR-3001 supports 4 channels.

The "problem" with the CR-2001 is that it only has two channels, which is fine if all you have are the door speakers. If you have more than these two speakers, the only solution with a CR-2001 is to wire it so that the left and right is front and back. This will work but it isn't the best way to listen to it. No balance option.