Anyone know of some good models that look like older radios?

i have an '86 cutlass with a shitty aftermarket tape plays and want to put to back to a more stock/classic look with a CD player

 

McIntosh?

 

mcintosh is ridiculously expensive......

 

Expensive, yes.

Ridiculous? To you, I guess...

 

hmmm .. yea thats quite pricey


anyone else know of any?

 

Kenwood EZ500 but the mcintosh is pretty much it. Otherwise you can get an original that came with the car & use a aftermarket kit to hook up a cd changer in your trunk.

 

I would recommend Custom Autosound HUs with changers... but I hear lately that they've started crashing left and right.

 

meh i've always hated custom autosound. Extremely overpriced/overrated for what is delivered.

 

u can always keep the old unit and place a new unit some where hidden like a glove box or armrest. i have seen some pretty clever systems in old cars like that. my g/f's dad has a 63 split window vette with a full system. you wouldn't even know from the looks of it.


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how about a nakamichi cd 400: cd, volume knob, and nolight display? great sound to boot. jps

 

nakamichi = hawt

 

I'm a big fan of the CD 400's looks... but I think it's 80's Mercedes more than 80's Cutlass.

We put one of those in a clean old Benz like once every two weeks. Lights match, plastic matches, sounds nice.

 

That has one nice looking, OEM-look interface. I'm not a fan of the "high-tech" obviously aftermarket head-units...this thing looks great. Any other ones out there? Nakamichi seems to be the only OEM-look headunit I've ever seen (though I have never researched it).